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Solved -PJ381- Shortened '50 Chevy Fleetline "Close Encounter"
« on: February 22, 2011, 08:43:48 AM »
Do you know this car?
1 point for the donor car (make model approx year).
1 point for the name given to it.
I do not know the builder myself... :-\ 1 point if you do.

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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2011, 02:03:32 PM »
I don't really know this car, but the base wouldn't be a Chevrolet Corvette, c.1954 would it?
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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2011, 03:02:02 PM »
Not a Chevrolet Corvette...but very far from that...the decade is correct.

EDIT: not a Corvette, but you're close.
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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2011, 03:03:21 PM »
Not a Jaguar XK120 in that case?
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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2011, 03:03:29 PM »
from Down Under?

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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2011, 03:06:20 PM »
Not a Jaguar XK120 in that case?
Not a Jaguar...
from Down Under?
Not from there...

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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2011, 03:07:22 PM »
Not a Chevrolet Corvette...but very far from that...the decade is correct.

Sorry!
I meant NOT very far from that!
(I'll fix it...)

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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2011, 05:16:52 PM »
Is the base a 1955 Ford Thunderbord?
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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2011, 05:25:42 PM »
Not Ford...see my previous reply...

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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2011, 05:36:13 PM »
Based on a Bel Air?

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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #10 on: February 22, 2011, 09:14:46 PM »
Not a Bel Air...

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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2011, 01:26:54 PM »
Looks like its based on a early '50s Chevy Fleetline 4dr.

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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2011, 01:43:01 PM »
Or the Pontiac version of it, because it has a one piece windshield...

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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2011, 02:24:28 PM »
Looks like its based on a early '50s Chevy Fleetline 4dr.
Perfect!
1st point to metalshapes.
I don't know if the name I have is correct, but it's written on the hood of this car...not in this picture but in a picture of the same car (with some modifications) in a later event.
It's a name you would use for different ...vehicles...

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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2011, 05:03:44 PM »
Was it modified in the USA? Somehow I got a South American vibe on this...

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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #15 on: February 23, 2011, 05:31:02 PM »
I don't know...
I found this pic in an old magazine ... and few days ago I found this pic on a very well known site with a name on it...they seem to be the same car.
Here you are the 2nd pic.
About this name, it is in the custom tradition...not a 'normal' name...
2 words: XXXXX XXXXXXXXX.

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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #16 on: March 04, 2011, 04:45:50 PM »
the car should share its name to a very popular movie, "XXXXX XXXXXXXXXX ZZ ZZZ ZZZZZ ZZZZ".
Find the X and it's done!

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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #17 on: March 05, 2011, 12:42:49 AM »
Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #18 on: March 05, 2011, 06:11:57 AM »
 :bow: :applause:
more pics will follow.

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Re: PJ - 381 - Who will be the 1st
« Reply #19 on: March 05, 2011, 03:59:41 PM »
Here you are 2 pics and your points.
More info are wellcome.

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Re: Solved -PJ381- Shortened '50 Chevy Fleetline "Close Encounter"
« Reply #20 on: January 04, 2013, 11:38:11 AM »
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