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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2010 => Topic started by: pnegyesi on February 24, 2010, 10:44:24 AM

Title: Solved: PN #58 -- Arrow, 1916
Post by: pnegyesi on February 24, 2010, 10:44:24 AM
Can you recognize this one? Identify it correctly and you'll receive a nice point!
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: pnegyesi on March 03, 2010, 02:04:20 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: pnegyesi on March 10, 2010, 01:01:41 AM
Professionals?
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: pnegyesi on March 14, 2010, 03:59:07 AM
Somehow it seems, this one has been left here unforgotten. Need a hint?
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: ImpishGrin on March 14, 2010, 05:26:12 AM
Is it a Peugeot?
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: pnegyesi on March 14, 2010, 07:42:35 AM
No, far, far from it
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: pnegyesi on March 23, 2010, 12:40:58 AM
Not from Europe
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: ftg3plus4 on March 23, 2010, 08:38:21 AM
Japan?
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: pnegyesi on March 23, 2010, 08:47:45 AM
Yes
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: ftg3plus4 on March 23, 2010, 08:57:14 AM
Lila?
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: pnegyesi on March 23, 2010, 09:00:44 AM
No
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: Arunas on March 23, 2010, 09:01:18 AM
Gorham?
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: pnegyesi on March 23, 2010, 09:09:33 AM
No
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: ftg3plus4 on March 23, 2010, 09:11:14 AM
Before 1920?
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: pnegyesi on March 23, 2010, 09:20:20 AM
yes
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: ftg3plus4 on March 23, 2010, 09:22:40 AM
Hmm... that could narrow it down.  Is the first letter of name in the A-L range?
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: pnegyesi on March 23, 2010, 09:29:59 AM
narrow - you almost nailed it :) Yes, it is between A-L
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: ftg3plus4 on March 23, 2010, 09:37:36 AM
G to L range?
After this I think I'm going to have to wait 'til I can get home & check my books.
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: pnegyesi on March 23, 2010, 09:47:39 AM
You don't need no books, it's very easy to find this on the 'net. It's somewhere in the A-F range
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: Paul Jaray on March 23, 2010, 10:01:04 AM
Ales?
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: ftg3plus4 on March 23, 2010, 06:21:50 PM
I can't find anything that would meet the criteria, unless it's an early DAT.
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: pnegyesi on March 24, 2010, 12:33:55 AM
It's not an early DAT
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: ftg3plus4 on March 24, 2010, 07:47:26 AM
Then I'm out on this one.
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: pnegyesi on March 24, 2010, 07:48:46 AM
And I thought this is not so difficult. Look at my clues again
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: Paul Jaray on March 24, 2010, 03:43:23 PM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on March 23, 2010, 10:01:04 AM
Ales?
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: pnegyesi on March 24, 2010, 03:46:24 PM
No, it's not an Ales. Sorry, I forgot to reply earlier.
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: pnegyesi on March 28, 2010, 01:17:06 AM
"that could narrow it down.  Is the first letter of name in the A-L range?"

"narrow - you almost nailed it" - I meant you almost found out the name of the car by accident...

"It's somewhere in the A-F range"

Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: ftg3plus4 on March 29, 2010, 08:48:20 AM
Arrow?   ;)
Title: Re: PN #58
Post by: pnegyesi on March 29, 2010, 10:11:21 AM
When Koichi Yano, then a 4th year student at Fukuoka Industrial College, was asked by the industrialist Yoshitaro Murakami to repair his French-built De Dion-Bouton automobile, it set him down the road of researching and designing his own vehicle. Yano took the rear-engine rear-wheel drive De Dion-Bouton and converted into a front-engine rear-wheel drive car, before drawing up blueprints based on a small British-made car (possibly an Austin Baby). Borrowing manufacturing facilities from Murakami's operations, Yano succeeded in building his own car in 1916 using De Dion-Bouton parts. The car, called Arrow featured a two-cylinder water-cooled engine, built under the instruction of Professor Iwaoka at Kyushu University, with manufacturing support from the university's machine shop. It also had a carburetor manufactured by Zenith in France, a Bosch Magneto ignition device as the spark plug, and wheels and tires originally designed for use with motorbikes. The car was used for approximately 2 years by the people who had backed its construction, and it even obtained a government license.
Title: Re: Solved: PN #58 -- Arrow, 1916
Post by: ftg3plus4 on March 29, 2010, 03:39:16 PM
And that, folks, is the most uncertain, long-shot AutoPuzzle guess I ever made that turned out to be right...
Title: Re: Solved: PN #58 -- Arrow, 1916
Post by: Fёdor on February 21, 2021, 09:10:25 AM
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