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Whaddyacallit #436 - Linda Plannette '49 Mercury
« on: September 28, 2009, 11:10:20 AM »
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Re: Whaddyacallit #436
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2009, 09:44:58 AM »
As rookies become experts, so must rookie puzzles...
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Re: Whaddyacallit #436
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2009, 10:00:39 AM »
As experts become prosfessionals, so must expert puzzles...
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Re: Whaddyacallit #436
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2009, 10:01:36 AM »
Plannettes special

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Re: Whaddyacallit #436
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2009, 10:03:19 AM »
Isn't Linda cute?
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Re: Whaddyacallit #436
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2009, 10:07:10 AM »
I thought she was the special!  ;D

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Re: Whaddyacallit #436
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2009, 04:44:38 AM »
What am I going to do with the puzzles I've got left from this source, heh?
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Re: Whaddyacallit #436 - Linda Plannette '49 Mercury
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2010, 11:17:24 AM »
Here is Paul Plannette with his wife in his Coachcraft 39-40 Mercury. Linda's husband?
If so, he must have changed wife in between, because this lady doesn't look half as hot as Linda.

This car was completed in 1940, while the puzzle photo is dated January 1951.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #436 - Linda Plannette '49 Mercury
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2010, 03:28:05 PM »
Could Linda be Paul's daughter-in-law? 
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Re: Whaddyacallit #436 - Linda Plannette '49 Mercury
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2010, 04:12:43 PM »
That would be nicer.
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Solved - NEH 3104: Linda Planette and her 1949 Mercury-based Special
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2013, 07:10:08 AM »
What's this, by whom, based on what - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 3104
« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2013, 05:13:17 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 3104
« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2013, 05:24:58 PM »
A sports car built by Linda Plannette and her husband Paul in the early 1950s. The frame and much of the running gear were Mercury. Radiator shell appears to be 1932 Ford...maybe.

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Re: NEH 3104
« Reply #13 on: November 25, 2013, 06:26:32 AM »
A sports car built by Linda Plannette and her husband Paul in the early 1950s. The frame and much of the running gear were Mercury. Radiator shell appears to be 1932 Ford...maybe.

Precisely.  I believe the basis was a 1949 Mercury.

And here is the lovely lady herself:

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Re: Whaddyacallit #436 - Linda Plannette '49 Mercury
« Reply #14 on: November 25, 2013, 08:50:21 AM »
Merged!

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Re: Whaddyacallit #436 - Linda Plannette '49 Mercury
« Reply #15 on: November 25, 2013, 09:51:25 AM »
Merged!

Oops...
It's a matter of spelling, since I (inexplicably) had her name with only one 'n'...

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Re: Whaddyacallit #436 - Linda Plannette '49 Mercury
« Reply #16 on: November 25, 2013, 10:37:41 AM »
Linda is statuesque; it'd be quite a sight to watch her fold herself into that little roadster.

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Re: OGB-285 Name the car and the girl
« Reply #18 on: November 02, 2019, 04:17:24 AM »
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Re: OGB-285 Name the car and the girl
« Reply #19 on: November 02, 2019, 08:48:51 AM »
Ursula Andress?

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Re: OGB-285 Name the car and the girl
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