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barrett's #112 - Solved - 1965 Aravind with Cadillac engine
« on: January 20, 2011, 03:07:03 PM »
What's this? (NOT a repost!)
Name, year and what engine it used for a point
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Re: barrett's #112
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2011, 03:09:33 PM »
Experts?

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Re: barrett's #112
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2011, 04:36:35 PM »
Is it based on a '59 Pontiac?

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Re: barrett's #112
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2011, 04:41:25 PM »
Eastern european origins? Stylized using very American detail queues.

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Re: barrett's #112
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2011, 04:51:20 PM »
Not Pontiac based, not from Eastern Europe

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Re: barrett's #112
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2011, 04:53:31 PM »
From Japan?

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Re: barrett's #112
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2011, 05:05:31 PM »
From India !  That's the 1965 hand-made Aravind with a 1939 Cadillac engine.

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Re: barrett's #112
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2011, 05:08:40 PM »
That's the one! We've already had one of the Aravinds on this site, which I think leaves just one unaccounted for...

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Re: barrett's #112 - Solved - 1965 Aravind with Cadillac engine
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2011, 05:22:20 PM »
What's this? (NOT a repost!)
Name, year and what engine it used for a point


So this is not the same car??

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=11341.msg92514#msg92514

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Re: barrett's #112 - Solved - 1965 Aravind with Cadillac engine
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2011, 05:27:54 PM »
Nope, that is the later Fiat-powered version. You can see the difference more clearly from the side view

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Re: barrett's #112 - Solved - 1965 Aravind with Cadillac engine
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2011, 05:30:59 PM »
Ah! Now I see. Thanks for clearing that up   :thumbsup: