Author Topic: Solved -PJ381- Shortened '50 Chevy Fleetline "Close Encounter" (Read 1495 times)

Paul Jaray · « **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.

Djetset · « **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?

Paul Jaray · « **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.

Djetset · « **Reply #3 on:** February 22, 2011, 03:03:21 PM »

Not a Jaguar XK120 in that case?

Allemano · « **Reply #4 on:** February 22, 2011, 03:03:29 PM »

from Down Under?

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #5 on:** February 22, 2011, 03:06:20 PM »

Quote from: Djetset on February 22, 2011, 03:03:21 PM

Not a Jaguar XK120 in that case?

Not a Jaguar...

Quote from: Allemano on February 22, 2011, 03:03:29 PM

from Down Under?

Not from there...

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #6 on:** February 22, 2011, 03:07:22 PM »

Quote from: Paul Jaray on February 22, 2011, 03:02:02 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...)

Djetset · « **Reply #7 on:** February 22, 2011, 05:16:52 PM »

Is the base a 1955 Ford Thunderbord?

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #8 on:** February 22, 2011, 05:25:42 PM »

Not Ford...see my previous reply...

João · « **Reply #9 on:** February 22, 2011, 05:36:13 PM »

Based on a Bel Air?

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #10 on:** February 22, 2011, 09:14:46 PM »

Not a Bel Air...

metalshapes · « **Reply #11 on:** February 23, 2011, 01:26:54 PM »

Looks like its based on a early '50s Chevy Fleetline 4dr.

metalshapes · « **Reply #12 on:** February 23, 2011, 01:43:01 PM »

Or the Pontiac version of it, because it has a one piece windshield...

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #13 on:** February 23, 2011, 02:24:28 PM »

Quote from: metalshapes on February 23, 2011, 01:26:54 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...

Allemano · « **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...

Paul Jaray · « **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.

Paul Jaray · « **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!

woodinsight · « **Reply #17 on:** March 05, 2011, 12:42:49 AM »

Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #18 on:** March 05, 2011, 06:11:57 AM »

more pics will follow.

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #19 on:** March 05, 2011, 03:59:41 PM »

Here you are 2 pics and your points.
More info are wellcome.

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #20 on:** January 04, 2013, 11:38:11 AM »

bump...

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Author Topic: Solved -PJ381- Shortened '50 Chevy Fleetline "Close Encounter" (Read 1495 times)