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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #100 on: January 24, 2009, 03:10:29 PM »
Amphicar and 1960 Cadillac.  Both have tail fins, same physical body feature.
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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #101 on: January 24, 2009, 03:47:21 PM »
Ok, but can You choose a Model from the 1960's line-up?

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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #102 on: January 24, 2009, 08:32:43 PM »
1960 Cadillac Coupe de Ville has fins like the Amphicar.

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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #103 on: January 24, 2009, 09:30:36 PM »
Amphicar 770 Cabriolet 1973           and    Cadillac Coupe de Ville 1960         same body style elements
Cadillac Coupe de Ville 1960           and     what car?                                            why?

Continue this chain for 1 to 4 points use any connection but do not use these:

Both cars have the same: builder\manufacturer,factory building,builder's name,model's name,country,year,
                                               engineer,engine,source of energy,number of CV,traction,body style elements, mileage radius
The name of one car and: the driver of the second,the circuit where it raced,the part introduced first time,
                                                the same name in a different language, the name of the city founded.
Both cars: are one-off, have one exceptional technical spec, are named after daughters
                   of the cars distributors
Name of a vessil & a sea-going car
The engine of one car is the evolution of the engine of the other
One builder's relative worked for the builder of the other car

See page 2 for details.
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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #104 on: January 25, 2009, 03:38:57 AM »
1960 Cadillac Coupe de Ville and a 1915 Detroit Electric.

Cadillac, saved by Henry Leland and others from the ruins of a failed automobile company started by Henry Ford, was named for 17th century French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, who founded Detroit in 1701. The Detroit Electric was named for the city he founded.

Here's another connection tidbit: Clara Ford, the wife of Cadillac progenitor Henry Ford, drove Detroit Electrics from 1908, when Henry bought her a Model C coupe with a special child seat, through the late teens. Her third car was a 1914 Model 47 brougham model.


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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #105 on: January 25, 2009, 07:06:52 AM »
That's really great!
Both connections are brilliant, I suppose You prefer the 1st.

Cadillac Coupe de Ville 1960    and   Detroit Electric  1915          name of the car - name of the city founded
Detroit Electric 1915                    and   what car?                              why?

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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #106 on: January 26, 2009, 06:09:19 PM »
Detroit Electric 1915 and Lincoln Indianapolis Boano 1955, same mileage radius

The radius of a 1915 Detroit Electric was rated at 60-70 miles on one charge – about the same distance that the 1955 Lincoln Indianapolis Boano show car, fitted with a fuel tank of only five gallons and returning cca 14 mpg, would be able to cover without having to stop at a gas station.

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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #107 on: January 26, 2009, 06:17:39 PM »
Wow, that's impressive!
I'm going to trust on you on this!  ;D

Detroit Electric 1915                                   and     Lincoln Indianapolis Boano 1955    same mileage radius
Lincoln Indianapolis Boano 1955                  and     what car?                                               why?

Continue this chain for 1 to 4 points use any connection but do not use these:

 -Both cars have the same: builder\manufacturer,factory building,builder's name,model's name,country,city of construction,year,
                                               engineer,engine,source of energy,number of CV,traction,body style elements, mileage radius
 -The name of one car and: the driver of the second,the circuit where it raced,the part introduced first time,
                                                the same name in a different language, the name of the city founded.
 -Both cars: are one-off, have one exceptional technical spec, are named after daughters
                   of the cars distributors
  -Name of a vessil & a sea-going car
 -The engine of one car is the evolution of the engine of the other
  -The designer of one car worked for the design-house of the second
 -The same man owned the design-house of the 1st and was a dealer for the 2nd
 -One builder's relative worked for the builder of the other car
 -The last model of both builders derives from the same car

See pag.1 for the rules and pag.2 for the connections already used.
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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #108 on: January 27, 2009, 03:25:30 AM »
Lincoln Indianapolis Boano 1955 and the 1993 Coupé Fiat.

Boano's work on the Lincoln was said to have influenced Fiat to start its Centro Stile department, with Boano at the helm. The first iteration of the Coupé Fiat, crafted in 1990 - a creation of several design minds within Centro Stile, including Chris Bangle - had no trunk (boot) - just like the Lincoln Indianapolis.

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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #109 on: January 27, 2009, 11:23:07 AM »
You picture doesn't show up, but I got the car. The "same body elements" connection has been already used (and the Coupè has got a trunk) so:

Lincoln Indianapolis Boano 1955    and    Fiat Coupè 1993      The designer of one car worked for the design-house of the second
Fiat Coupe 1993                                 and      what car?                             why?
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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #110 on: January 27, 2009, 12:16:21 PM »
The coupe prototype did not have a trunk.
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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #111 on: January 27, 2009, 12:50:56 PM »
I still can't see the pic, so I was assuming you were referring to the Coupe...but the connection is perfect, now will be harder and harder try to steal the points from the last one (this time you!)....there are few simple ones...

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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #112 on: January 27, 2009, 05:01:08 PM »
Here's a simple one I think you've not yet had.
Fiat (ori. FIAT) was made in Turin, and so was Lancia, for example the Lancia Augusta with Whittingam & Mitchell body (well the body wasn't)
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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #113 on: January 28, 2009, 03:00:21 AM »
Ok, "same country" was already taken, but that's different!

Fiat Coupe 1993                                                    and       Lancia Augusta Whittingam & Mitchell 1935         same city of construction
Lancia Augusta Whittingam&mitchell 1935     and         what car?                                                                     why?

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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #114 on: January 28, 2009, 04:50:53 AM »
Lancia Augusta with Whittingam & Mitchell body and a Graham Paige roadster. Both are connected to Eustace Watkins, a dealer of Graham Paige automobiles, and, for a time, the owner of coachbuilder Whittingam & Mitchell. 

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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #115 on: January 28, 2009, 06:50:29 AM »
I think this one will be a true neverending one if you keep on finding these relationships!!

Lancia Augusta Whittingam&mitchell 1935  and  Graham-Paige Model 827 Roadster 1929 : the same man owned the design-house of the 1st and was a dealer for the 2nd

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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #116 on: January 28, 2009, 07:45:04 AM »
The last model by Graham-Paige was the Hollywood, virtually the same car as the last car built by Hupmobile, the 1940 Skylark. Both were rear wheel drive adaptations of the Cord 810.

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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #117 on: January 28, 2009, 07:52:36 AM »
I wonder how I'm going to put it down in a few words!
You are doing exactly what I was hoping to, finding the deepest connections!

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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #118 on: January 28, 2009, 07:58:00 AM »
Graham-Paige Model 827 Roadster 1929  and   Hupmobile Skylark 1940    Last model of both builders derives from the same car
Hupmobile Skylark 1940                                and   what car?                               why?

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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #119 on: January 28, 2009, 09:12:15 AM »
Graham-Paige Model 827 Roadster 1929 and a 1955 Chevrolet Nomad.

Automotive companies with founders of the same first name (not surname), who's brothers were tied to their early automotive empires. 

Louis Hupp and his brother Robert Craig Hupp, a former employee of Oldsmobile and Ford, founded Huppmobile in 1908.

Chevrolet was the brainchild of Louis Chevrolet, who also competed in the Indianapolis 500 four times, with a best finish of seventh in 1919. Younger brother Gaston won there in 1920 in a car Louis built.
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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #120 on: January 28, 2009, 09:16:40 AM »
Once again it seems that there are no limits for you! But I'm afraid this time you missed a step, now the last car is a Hupmobile Skylark 1940, probably if you can rearrange....

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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #121 on: January 28, 2009, 09:59:53 AM »
Once again it seems that there are no limits for you! But I'm afraid this time you missed a step, now the last car is a Hupmobile Skylark 1940, probably if you can rearrange....
Well actually his case is really for the Hupmobile, not the Graham Paige . . .
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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #122 on: January 28, 2009, 10:08:05 AM »
I'm lost.
Hupmobile Skylark 1940  and   Chevrolet Nomad 1955    : founder's brothers were tied to their early automotive empires?
Is this the connection?
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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #123 on: January 28, 2009, 10:11:32 AM »
The Graham Paige was a Huppmobile built under license.

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Re: Neverending Chain
« Reply #124 on: January 28, 2009, 10:20:28 AM »
I know, but is this the connection you mean?
 Hupmobile Skylark 1940  and   Chevrolet Nomad 1955    : founder's brothers were tied to their early automotive empires?