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Solved - MJW #071 - Holden WB Statesman
« on: October 29, 2010, 01:29:34 PM »
Easy point for the Rookies?
Make, model and year for a point

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Re: MJW #071
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2010, 03:53:04 PM »
I'm surprised that no rookies have responded to my easiest puzzle so far!
It's a gift before I move it up to shark feeding tank (experts) soon.

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Re: MJW #071
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2010, 11:37:42 PM »
Admittedly, this one looks familiar.  I have a model car (HW size, but not HW) that is similar to this, but ... it doesn't say the brand of the car...lol.  Go figure.



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Re: MJW #071
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2010, 01:26:07 AM »
That's a shame - some model manufacturers are a bit lacking in details of their models sometimes.
Anyway, I'll leave this one open in this section for a while - if you have second thoughts.......

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Re: MJW #071
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2010, 04:27:30 AM »
ZIL?  :-\
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Re: MJW #071
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2010, 04:50:47 AM »
Not ZIL - wrong country

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Re: MJW #071
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2010, 04:19:30 PM »
Experts will make short work of this.......

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Re: MJW #071
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2010, 05:07:08 PM »
Holden WB Statesman ( 1980-1985 )
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Re: MJW #071
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2010, 09:14:13 PM »
It does look like the Holden WB Statesman.

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Re: MJW #071
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2010, 04:14:27 AM »
That's the car!
HEMI 426 gets the point.
Better luck next time mymokke.

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Re: Solved - MJW #071 - Holden WB Statesman
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2010, 02:24:41 PM »
Just throwing my support behind another MOPAR guy ......we're the small guys but we got the goods.

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Re: MJW #071
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2010, 07:52:04 PM »
That's a shame - some model manufacturers are a bit lacking in details of their models sometimes.

Indeed.

Even more ironic ... is when they GIVE details ... but the model hardly looks like the car it is supposed to be...lol.



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Re: Solved - MJW #071 - Holden WB Statesman
« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2010, 08:28:49 PM »
IMHO the funny thing is the Statesman's publicity made a big deal of having been licensed to wear the name caprice, the laurel wreath and the badge that is Knightfan's avatar ... only to end up being taken for a Zil.
I don't think those wheels are Holden though ...