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Puzzle #1984 - Silver Sabre Patriomatic Funfighter
« on: April 09, 2011, 06:45:15 AM »
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Re: Puzzle #1984
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2011, 03:05:44 AM »
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Re: Puzzle #1984
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2011, 02:30:33 PM »
Is this design by Bruce McCall?

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Re: Puzzle #1984
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2011, 06:06:59 PM »
I agree with Hugo - sure looks like a Zany Afternoons illustration. I'll have to see if I can dig out my copy, I haven't looked at it in years.
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Re: Puzzle #1984
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2011, 05:02:38 AM »
Is this design by Bruce McCall?

It is
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Re: Puzzle #1984
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2011, 06:04:02 PM »
Well, it's not in Bruce's book Zany Afternoons although many other similar (and hilarious) vehicles are . . . I guess we'll just have to keep looking!
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Re: Puzzle #1984
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2011, 04:14:39 AM »
It's well worth the trouble  ;)
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Re: Puzzle #1984
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2011, 04:28:18 AM »
Pro's?
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Re: Puzzle #1984
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2011, 05:03:16 AM »
Black hole?
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Re: Puzzle #1984
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2011, 05:30:37 PM »
From goofspot.com...

Silver Sabre Patriomatic Funfighter, 1951

The accompanying text that went with this image reads, "If the Korean Conflict is all but forgotten today, where does that leave the Silver Sabre?  Commemorating a stalemated U.N. police action on the Korean Peninsula with a civilian American dream car was possibly a case of patriotic fervor winning out over commercial appeal.  The single-seat Silver Sabre, with its jet-fighter styling, aircraft-type cockpit, simulated aerodynamics, and a gunsight-type hood ornament that flipped up to reveal a cigarette lighter, did make a dramatic sight.  But its day in the sun proved to be cloudy, with early showers.  After negative response at auto shows - perhaps influenced by the clever but misguided stagecraft that had it rolling over a battalion of stuntment dressed as Chinese soldiers every hour on the hour - the Sabre was loaned to the U.S. Air Force as a recruiting tool, then went into mothballs when nine out of ten would-be recruits declined their free drives and joined the navy.  Its final chapter proved to be its noblest: purchased by the CIA at a tag sale, it was mailed to North Korea with no return address in 1959 as an experiment in psychological warfare."

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Re: Puzzle #1984
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2011, 05:35:06 AM »
That's the car.
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