Author Topic: Barrett's Artist & Car puzzle #1 - Solved - Bela Lugosi & Humber Pullman (Read 700 times)

barrett · « **on:** July 22, 2011, 12:13:44 PM »

Looking slightly more angelic than usual. But who is he, and what car can be connected to him?

Arunas · « **Reply #1 on:** July 22, 2011, 12:36:37 PM »

Is the man-car connection via some movie?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #2 on:** July 22, 2011, 01:18:51 PM »

I suggest it's Bela Lugosi, who portrayed Professor Paul Renault in the 1945 movie Zombies on Broadway

barrett · « **Reply #3 on:** July 22, 2011, 01:23:25 PM »

You're quick!

Right man, wrong car. Locked for your next reply to see if you can come up with the right connection!

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #4 on:** July 22, 2011, 02:00:23 PM »

There is an oft-repeated rumor that he never learned to drive a car, so this one will take some digging...

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #5 on:** July 22, 2011, 03:02:58 PM »

Lugosi had a role in the ensemble movie "International House", which featured an American Austin / Bantam named 'Spirit of South Brooklyn'

barrett · « **Reply #6 on:** July 22, 2011, 03:40:54 PM »

Not that one either....

Tom_I · « **Reply #7 on:** July 22, 2011, 03:59:31 PM »

Anything to do with Land Rover?

barrett · « **Reply #8 on:** July 22, 2011, 06:17:29 PM »

Not Land-Rover

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #9 on:** July 24, 2011, 07:00:49 AM »

Does the answer include a direct connection between Luosi and a car, or is the answer akin to "a character he played had a name similar but hardly identical to a car he never saw in his life"?

barrett · « **Reply #10 on:** July 24, 2011, 07:40:25 AM »

Hey certainly saw the car though I don't know if he ever drove it.

You're wise to ask though, my puzzles normally take that sort of route!

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #11 on:** July 24, 2011, 07:58:07 AM »

OK - how about this '55 Ford from Plan 9 from Outer Space?

I'm not 100% sure that's Lugosi, or his approximate double, Ed Wood 's wife's chiropractor, Tom Mason

grobmotorix · « **Reply #12 on:** July 24, 2011, 10:13:11 AM »

Quote

Plan 9 from Outer Space

I love this movie. It´s been on videogoogle some time and I´ve watched it three times I think. It´s just scrap really and I think everybody should have seen it, too...

Hope you´re right with your guess!

barrett · « **Reply #13 on:** July 25, 2011, 11:14:22 AM »

Not Plan 9 or '55 Ford.....

Wendax · « **Reply #14 on:** July 29, 2011, 03:04:02 PM »

I've got it.

It must be a Piaggio Ape, because Lugosi was the ....

barrett · « **Reply #15 on:** July 30, 2011, 11:31:24 AM »

That stretch of the imagination is almost worth a point

Sadly not the car I'm looking for though!

Ray B. · « **Reply #16 on:** August 01, 2011, 06:17:48 AM »

Is it this thing?
I don't know what it would be called, and it's not really a car, I know, but it's got three wheels...

barrett · « **Reply #17 on:** August 01, 2011, 10:07:13 AM »

Not that either. The vehicle I'm looking for is British....

barrett · « **Reply #18 on:** September 06, 2011, 01:48:49 PM »

Here's Mr. Lugosi emerging from the vehicle I want to you identify.....

Ray B. · « **Reply #19 on:** September 07, 2011, 12:12:45 PM »

I think that it's this Humber Pullman.

barrett · « **Reply #20 on:** September 07, 2011, 07:14:05 PM »

Well, we got there in the end!

Well done Ray. B, a well deserved point for you

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Author Topic: Barrett's Artist & Car puzzle #1 - Solved - Bela Lugosi & Humber Pullman (Read 700 times)