Author Topic: Longhorn cars (and other extravaganza) - Solved by Joao, Otto Puzzell, guido66 and pnegyesi (Read 6630 times)

Ray B. · « **on:** July 21, 2009, 03:40:03 PM »

The cowboy multi-puzzles are back!

Ten cars adorned with six-shooters and such. Only two of them do not belong to a range rider.
Except for two or three, the cars are supposed to have been their property in "real life". Although one can doubt they'd use it to go down to the supermarket.

Each picture is worth one point, but you have to identify the car (year and make at least) and its owner. Don't name only one, as anybody who will complete the pair can rob you of your point!

Now giddyup!

Longhorn1

Leo Carrillo's 1947 Chrysler town and Country (Joao)

Longhorn 2

Roy Rogers '66 Pontiac Bonneville (Otto Puzzell)

Longhorn 3

Clint Eastwood's 1960 Oldsmobile from Bronco Billy (Otto Puzzell)

Longhorn 4

Nudie Cohn's Pontiac Grand Ville (Joao)

Longhorn 5

William Boyd's 1950 Cadillac convertible (Joao)

Longhorn 6

Liberace's Excalibur (Otto Puzzell)

Longhorn 7

Webb Pierce's 1962 Pontiac Bonneville (guido66)

Longhorn 8

Tom Mix in ca.1920 Don Lee Cadillac (Joao)

Longhorn 9

Hoot Gibson and a 1937 Studebaker (pnegyesi)

Longhorn10

Alan Ladd and a 1930 Cadillac V16 Phaeton (Joao)

Octavia · « **Reply #1 on:** July 21, 2009, 04:51:55 PM »

Is number 7 Liberachie and a 1970 Caddi Eldorado (apologies for spelling) also number 4 looks like the same car !

Ray B. · « **Reply #2 on:** July 21, 2009, 05:24:42 PM »

Nope.
4 and 7 are not the same car either.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #3 on:** July 22, 2009, 03:18:15 AM »

Quote from: Ray B. on July 21, 2009, 03:40:03 PM

The cowboy multi-puzzles are back!

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

knightfan26917 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 23, 2009, 01:06:15 PM »

OK ... don't know histories or significances, etc., but a few sorta guesses:

#2 ... obviously, a Pontiac Bonneville ... since it says so on the fender

. I believe it is a mid-1960s model.

#3 ... styling cues scream Chevy to me, but not sure if it is the Bel Air or Impala ... or maybe Biscayne? I'd venture to guess it is an early 1960s model, though.

#4 ... I keep going back'n'forth between Pontiac and Oldsmobile, but given what I can see of the wheels, I'm leaning towards Pontiac. Believe it to be a 1970s (1975ish?) Pontiac Granville....

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Ray B. · « **Reply #5 on:** July 24, 2009, 05:32:10 AM »

You're right about the two Pontiacs, wrong about the Chevy. But the point is mostly to find who they belonged to.

Ray B. · « **Reply #6 on:** July 27, 2009, 12:00:37 PM »

Let's round this one up and take it down the Old Chisholm Trail, to the land of the free for all.

João · « **Reply #7 on:** July 27, 2009, 12:56:34 PM »

Number 4 - Nudie Cohn used custom cars like this Pontiac Grand Ville as a platform to promote his Western-wear store.
Number 8 - Cowboy Rudolph Valentino in his 1923 Rothschild Voisin

Ray B. · « **Reply #8 on:** July 27, 2009, 01:11:59 PM »

Quote from: João on July 27, 2009, 12:56:34 PM

Number 4 - Nudie Cohn used custom cars like this Pontiac Grand Ville as a platform to promote his Western-wear store. Yes

Number 8 - Cowboy Rudolph Valentino in his 1923 Rothschild Voisin. Neither Rudolph Valentino, nor a Voisin

I said two of them weren't cowboys: Nudie Cohn is one of them, of course.

guido66 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 27, 2009, 04:49:28 PM »

#2: 1965 Pontiac Bonneville of Bobbejaan Schoepen?? (He bought a few cars from Nudie Cohn for his western theme park in Belgium)

guido66 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 27, 2009, 05:04:24 PM »

#7: Webb Pierce and his 1962 Pontiac Bonneville?

João · « **Reply #11 on:** July 27, 2009, 07:00:18 PM »

Number 1 - 1947 Chrysler Town & COUNTRY Convertible.This example was specially constructed for actor Leo Carrillo, better know as Poncho from The Cicso Kid television show. Custom touches included a hood-mounted steer head with eyes that light, extended bumper guards, specially mixed paint to match the color of Carrillo's palomino pony, and hand painted 'LC' monograms on the doors and wheel covers. Carrillo drove this car frequently in parades and to publicity events. A second hood without a steer head was also supplied with the car.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #12 on:** July 28, 2009, 04:38:34 AM »

#6 is Liberace's rhinestone-encrusted Excalibur.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #13 on:** July 28, 2009, 04:49:12 AM »

# 2 is Roy Rogers' 1966 Pontiac Bonneville, at the The Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum & Happy Trails Theater in Branson, MO. This Bonneville was customized by “Nudie” Cohen, the Rodeo Tailor to the stars of the 1950’s & 1960’s. He did all the leather work, as well as adding the guns and all the extras. He performed this labor of love on 18 different automobiles in his career. Roy Rogers has owned this vehicle from 1964 until he died in 1998.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #14 on:** July 28, 2009, 04:57:50 AM »

#10 may be Tom Mix's ~~1934~~ 1931 Packard, but I cannot find a picture of the car with those horns affixed.

Ray B. · « **Reply #15 on:** July 28, 2009, 04:58:20 AM »

Quote from: guido66 on July 27, 2009, 05:04:24 PM

#7: Webb Pierce and his 1962 Pontiac Bonneville?

Yes

Quote from: Otto Puzzell on July 28, 2009, 04:38:34 AM

#6 is Liberace's rhinestone-encrusted Excalibur.

Yes

Quote from: João on July 27, 2009, 07:00:18 PM

Number 1 - 1947 Chrysler Town & COUNTRY Convertible.This example was specially constructed for actor Leo Carrillo, better know as Poncho from The Cicso Kid television show. Custom touches included a hood-mounted steer head with eyes that light, extended bumper guards, specially mixed paint to match the color of Carrillo's palomino pony, and hand painted 'LC' monograms on the doors and wheel covers. Carrillo drove this car frequently in parades and to publicity events. A second hood without a steer head was also supplied with the car.

Yes

Quote from: Otto Puzzell on July 28, 2009, 04:49:12 AM

# 2 is Roy Rogers' 1966 Pontiac Bonneville, at the The Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum & Happy Trails Theater in Branson, MO. This Bonneville was customized by “Nudie” Cohen, the Rodeo Tailor to the stars of the 1950’s & 1960’s. He did all the leather work, as well as adding the guns and all the extras. He performed this labor of love on 18 different automobiles in his career. Roy Rogers has owned this vehicle from 1964 until he died in 1998.

Yes

I like it when you furnish the story of the car too. Webb Pierce's car was also a gift from Nudie Cohn, who decidedly had a thing with Pontiacs.

Ray B. · « **Reply #16 on:** July 28, 2009, 05:08:14 AM »

Quote from: Otto Puzzell on July 28, 2009, 04:57:50 AM

#10 may be Tom Mix's ~~1934~~ 1931 Packard, but I cannot find a picture of the car with those horns affixed.

No. It's not Tom Mix and not a Packard.

João · « **Reply #17 on:** August 13, 2009, 01:41:46 PM »

Number #10
Alan Laad (screen star)
1930 custom Cadillac V16 sport phaeton

Here we see the popular film-star with the westernized
V16 he used in the movie, The Carpetbaggers.The car
spent many years in a museum before being purchased and
restored ...on two successive occasions (currently it is red)

Number #5
William Boyd
1950 Cadillac Series 62 convertible

This car is featured in the CLC's Self Starter magazine for February 2001. The car was apparently sent back to Detroit, to the Cadillac Styling Studio, where they restyled it especially for the singing cowboy movie star. It was outfitted with a unique horse and rider hood ornament, had Hopalong script affixed to the doors and extra chrome rib strips down the trunk lid; the interior was redone in a horse hide motif; it had also a second windshield behind the front seat.

Number #8

Tom Mix in a 1921 Cadillac Phaeton Victoria by Don Lee??

Ray B. · « **Reply #18 on:** August 14, 2009, 08:34:10 AM »

Quote from: João on August 13, 2009, 01:41:46 PM

Number #10
Alan Ladd and a 1930 custom Cadillac V16 sport phaeton from "The Carpetbaggers" Yes

Number #5
William Boyd and his 1950 Cadillac Series 62 convertible Yes (Hopalong Cassidy didn't sing if my memory serves me well)

Number #8
Tom Mix Yes in a 1921 Cadillac Phaeton Victoria by Don Lee?? indeed

Number 8 is Tom Mix for sure. Very well done because I hid his hat, which is the most recognizable item he wore. My source gives a different make for the car, but it's a very unreliable source when it comes to cars: it calls it a 1921 Cord, which is an impossibility.
So, another point for you if you come up with a more serious identification for the car (some kind of evidence required). Locked for you one week from now.

Ray B. · « **Reply #19 on:** August 14, 2009, 08:53:28 AM »

Evidence...
In Hopalong Cassidy's picture, the red arrow points to Harley Earl.

João · « **Reply #20 on:** August 14, 2009, 10:28:15 AM »

Tom Mix had some Cadillacs.
The picture of him in a car,shows the Don Lee´s badge under the door.I posted another Cadillac by Don Lee for you compare the badges.Don Lee only bodied Cadillacs and some Pierce-Arrows.It´s not a Pierce-Arrow because of the inconfundible front lamps incorporated with the mudguards.
And finally a Cadillac by Don Lee with the same style.

Ray B. · « **Reply #21 on:** August 14, 2009, 11:56:59 AM »

You're probably right about Don Lee and Cadillacs. Mix was also a close friend of Harley Earl whose career began at Don Lee's. It's probably a Cadillac (the fenders look much like the cars you show and the green one has some common features). But the second point will be earned if you identify this precise car.

Ray B. · « **Reply #22 on:** September 18, 2009, 11:21:52 AM »

Ray B. · « **Reply #23 on:** November 05, 2009, 01:30:29 PM »

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" maybe, but I'd say you guys seriously need some clues to finish this one/ All right...

I thought that #3 was one of the easiest ones... I guess it would have beeen found some times ago if I had attachec the color version of the picture (and the car).

#9 cowboy was at he end of his film career when this picture was taken. But he had once been the equal to Tom Mix. Oh, and the circus here, in which he performed was a ........... Bros circus (but not the Ringling).

João · « **Reply #24 on:** November 06, 2009, 12:34:09 PM »

Number #9 is Ken Maynard and a Studebaker Dictator?

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Author Topic: Longhorn cars (and other extravaganza) - Solved by Joao, Otto Puzzell, guido66 and pnegyesi (Read 6630 times)