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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #50 on: December 15, 2009, 08:33:35 AM »
WAG - update of the 1947 Vettura by Luca Barnocchi?
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #51 on: December 15, 2009, 08:42:12 AM »
Wait a minute! How about an updated Wimille? The streamlining, etc., seem to be congruent.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #52 on: December 15, 2009, 08:45:42 AM »
It should be American...
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #53 on: December 15, 2009, 09:14:41 AM »
I am delighted to see you guys excited about this car, but don't forget rto check my former replies:
 We've established that it id AMERICAN (even West Coast), so no Wimille, no Vettura.
As for Briggs, I don't remember who or what it is, but no Briggs either.
We've also established that the produced car was dated some years after the Phantom Corsair, so in the 1940's, and to me the streamline period is rather the 1930's.
Anyway, the company who made it never built another car.
The coachbuilder did, and some fine ones.



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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #54 on: December 15, 2009, 09:17:51 AM »
Bohman & Schwartz?
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #55 on: December 15, 2009, 09:24:54 AM »
No.
Clue reminder: the coachbuilder was once related to Howard Darrin (see page 2)
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #56 on: December 15, 2009, 09:25:19 AM »
Darrin?
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #57 on: December 15, 2009, 09:25:53 AM »
Not Darrin, but see just above your reply.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #58 on: December 15, 2009, 09:38:38 AM »
Hibbard was co-founder of LeBaron coachbuilder, but LeBaron was from New York...
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #59 on: December 15, 2009, 09:44:00 AM »
The years are wrong but the rest fits: was Robert Perreau involved?
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #60 on: December 15, 2009, 09:50:02 AM »
Not Hibbard. Darrin was associated with one of the founder of this coachbuilding shop shortly before it started.

I must confess that I don't know Robert Perreau. But he doesn't appear here AFAIK.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #61 on: December 15, 2009, 10:57:01 AM »
Quote from: Ray B. on December 15, 2009, 09:14:41 AM
We've established that it id AMERICAN (even West Coast), so no Wimille, no Vettura.

Ties to the V4 Walker special?
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #62 on: December 15, 2009, 11:03:35 AM »
Please stop putting me to shame by citing cars I never heard of.
No, the engine was a common Ford V8.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #63 on: December 15, 2009, 11:11:16 AM »
Somethig related to the Dubonnet?
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #64 on: December 15, 2009, 11:15:54 AM »
No.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #65 on: December 15, 2009, 11:35:38 AM »
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #66 on: December 15, 2009, 11:47:33 AM »
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #67 on: December 15, 2009, 01:45:46 PM »
How about a Burt Chalmers proposal for a mid-engined Hewson Rocket (Coachcraft built)?
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #68 on: December 15, 2009, 02:16:41 PM »
A-ha! That makes perfect sense. That's why it never occurred to me!  ;D
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #69 on: December 15, 2009, 02:58:21 PM »
Quote from: streamliner on December 15, 2009, 01:45:46 PM
How about a Burt Chalmers proposal for a mid-engined Hewson Rocket (Coachcraft built)?

Half a bingo by streamliner, who scores the first point. It's indeed a proposal for the production Hewson Rocket, built by Coachcraft, and mid-engined.

But not by Burton Chalmers. The answer, I'm afraid, is not no the net.

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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #70 on: December 15, 2009, 06:34:56 PM »
Then I guess it wasn't Rudy Stoessel, the guy who formed the body?
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #71 on: December 18, 2009, 04:40:00 AM »
Not Stoessel either. A designer who didn't belong to the Coachcraft team.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #72 on: December 18, 2009, 05:01:53 AM »
Was the designer born in the US?
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #73 on: December 21, 2009, 12:33:13 PM »
I have no idea, but he was american as far as I know.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #408
« Reply #74 on: December 21, 2009, 12:35:43 PM »
Better-known for not-automotive design?
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