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Puzzle #782 - Solved! Wylie Javelin
« on: March 15, 2008, 02:56:52 AM »
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Re: Puzzle #782
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2008, 05:58:17 AM »
Who'll start the bidding for this AutoPuzzles point?
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Re: Puzzle #782
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2008, 09:42:34 AM »
:bump:
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Re: Puzzle #782
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2008, 06:27:49 AM »
serenissima?

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Re: Puzzle #782
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2008, 07:33:40 AM »
Nope
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Re: Puzzle #782
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2008, 07:43:15 AM »
Czech?

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Re: Puzzle #782
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2008, 07:55:42 AM »
Perhaps the red Austin Healey 100 behind it is a clue?

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Re: Puzzle #782
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2008, 10:55:21 AM »
No, not really.
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Re: Puzzle #782
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2008, 11:51:27 AM »
Cisitalia 360?  :-\

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Re: Puzzle #782
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2008, 12:32:56 PM »
Nope. Sea Lion's guess was closer, geographically.
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Re: Puzzle #782
« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2008, 01:41:07 PM »
Britannia Formula Junior?

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Re: Puzzle #782
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2008, 07:02:42 AM »
Not one of those. The power plant in this car came from the front of a production sporting automobile that is well known to most of the membership here, I would guess, although it never sold in big numbers like an MG or other brands. 
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Re: Puzzle #782
« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2008, 10:14:42 AM »
Bandini Formula Junior

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Re: Puzzle #782
« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2008, 11:29:55 AM »
No sir.
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Re: Puzzle #782
« Reply #14 on: December 30, 2008, 10:33:15 AM »
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Re: Puzzle #782
« Reply #15 on: February 05, 2009, 10:15:05 AM »
Looks much like Wylie Javelin, but that was Australian, I believe...

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Re: Puzzle #782
« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2009, 05:06:00 AM »
Wylie Javelin is correct!

Yes, the car was built in Australia. However, do a misspelling of 'Wylie' on the site where I sourced the pic, I found virtually no information on this car. Using the correct spelling you provided, many sources verify you are correct. Being built around a Jowett powerplant, I don't feel badly about my clues.

From the Jowett Jupiter Sports Car Index:

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Arthur Wylie (30/7/11 to 26/7/97) never owned a Jowett Jupiter. But his own-designed own-built super-charged Javelin-mid-engined single seater was a F1 car of advanced design which was constructed before anyone knew which direction F1 was headed. It was designed in 1949, running in 1950, exhibited in 1951, racing in 1952. In the Australian GP of 1953 the car finished 9th from a field of 40 starters. In the Victoria Cup of 1954 it spent most of the 64 laps ahead of Jack Brabham, easing back three laps before the end due to tyres being down to the canvas.
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Re: Puzzle #782 - Solved! Wylie Javelin
« Reply #17 on: November 04, 2010, 04:09:17 AM »
Another pic of this car...
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Re: Puzzle #782 - Solved! Wylie Javelin
« Reply #18 on: April 15, 2012, 07:51:26 AM »
Another look
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