Author Topic: OGB 7 What's This? Araguaney CS1 USB Solar 2007 Venezuela (Read 917 times)

Oguerrerob · « **on:** April 10, 2011, 07:21:20 PM »

Can you tell the name, year and origin of this abandon thing?

Allemano · « **Reply #1 on:** April 11, 2011, 03:50:02 AM »

Someone forgot his helmet I suppose?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #2 on:** April 11, 2011, 05:13:48 AM »

Delorean · « **Reply #3 on:** April 14, 2011, 02:17:25 AM »

2009 Solar Car Challenger (with the solar panels removed)?

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #4 on:** April 14, 2011, 07:31:58 AM »

Yes, it is from Solar Car Challenge Race (with the solar panels removed), but the date is wrong.

Delorean · « **Reply #5 on:** April 14, 2011, 10:17:37 AM »

I don't know the exact year, but looking at the shape and state of it, it gotta be one of the early ones ... 1990?

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #6 on:** April 14, 2011, 06:12:40 PM »

No, you were closer at your first guess!!

Pelland · « **Reply #7 on:** April 14, 2011, 06:21:34 PM »

Is it the Sharp Tokai Challenger?

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #8 on:** April 14, 2011, 10:42:53 PM »

Nope!

Delorean · « **Reply #9 on:** April 15, 2011, 02:49:33 AM »

2007?

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #10 on:** April 15, 2011, 06:20:39 AM »

Yes! That's the easy part! Name and origin are missing!

Delorean · « **Reply #11 on:** April 15, 2011, 07:17:11 AM »

Soleon from Calgary (Canada)?

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #12 on:** April 15, 2011, 07:28:16 AM »

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #13 on:** April 19, 2011, 05:12:11 PM »

Let's see how Experts do this

whcgt · « **Reply #14 on:** April 19, 2011, 06:24:45 PM »

2007 Gwawr II. Winner of the Panasonic world solar environmental awareness award 2007. Team headed by Dr. Sparey-Taylor & Mr. T. Boddington.

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #15 on:** April 19, 2011, 08:30:43 PM »

Sorry, but it's not this one

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #16 on:** April 23, 2011, 07:51:01 PM »

Let's try it with Pros

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #17 on:** May 10, 2011, 11:09:53 AM »

Let me add another picture

Tom_I · « **Reply #18 on:** May 10, 2011, 02:39:39 PM »

This has been hard to track down, but I found the first photo below, which very helpfully has a Venezuelan flag hanging next to the car.

So it seems that this is the ill-fated Venezuelan entry in the 2007 World Solar Challenge held in Australia, the course starting in Darwen and ending in Adelaide.

The team was called USB Solar, USB being the Universidad Simón Bolívar of Caracas, and I think the car was called Araquaney CS1. Unfortunately, though the car and team arrived in Darwen, the battery packs, which were essential to the car's function, managed to get stuck in transit in Memphis, USA, and did not arrive in time. The New Zealand team offered to lend batteries, but they were not compatible, and the Venezuelan team were unable to compete, and had to transport the car to Adelaide on the back of a truck.

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #19 on:** May 10, 2011, 06:48:24 PM »

Tom_I!!!! Congratulations!!! You've found more info than the one I already had! Maybe that's why was left abandoned in a backyard. The only extra info is VW logo on the side.

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