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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #25 on: March 24, 2011, 09:16:43 AM »
Thor?
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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #26 on: March 24, 2011, 09:17:12 AM »
Or Magnus...
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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #27 on: March 24, 2011, 09:19:19 AM »
Sigurdsson?

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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #28 on: March 24, 2011, 09:20:40 AM »
.....sson at all?

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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #29 on: March 24, 2011, 09:23:15 AM »
.....sson at all?

It won't be ...dottir  ;D

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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #30 on: March 24, 2011, 09:27:11 AM »
A surname, which means you already know the last 4 letters....

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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #31 on: March 24, 2011, 09:28:25 AM »
Jonsson?
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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #32 on: March 24, 2011, 09:29:36 AM »
Eriksson?

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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #33 on: March 24, 2011, 12:37:52 PM »
Andersson?

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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #34 on: March 24, 2011, 12:53:26 PM »
Knudsson

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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #35 on: March 24, 2011, 01:23:23 PM »
Gudmundsson?

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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #36 on: March 24, 2011, 01:24:24 PM »
Sigurdsson

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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #37 on: March 24, 2011, 01:46:56 PM »
Seventhsson of a Seventhsson?
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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #38 on: March 24, 2011, 01:55:08 PM »
;D

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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #39 on: March 24, 2011, 01:57:06 PM »
blackholesson?

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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #40 on: March 25, 2011, 03:45:17 PM »
Clarksson (as it looks like the crazy sort of thing he would build and then distroy on Top Gear!)  :D
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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #41 on: April 12, 2011, 09:13:27 PM »
Seventhsson of a Seventhsson?

 ;D That's actually the closest answer so far!

You're on the right track everyone of course, I guess this will be unsolved until someone guesses correctly....

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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #42 on: April 12, 2011, 11:06:09 PM »
Svensson?

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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #43 on: April 21, 2011, 02:25:13 AM »
Sorry, forgot about this one!
it's not Svensson...

...but it is Sve----sson (no. of dashes does not match no. of missing letters)

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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #44 on: April 21, 2011, 02:28:29 AM »
Sveinsson?

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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #45 on: April 21, 2011, 03:04:35 AM »
Sverrisson?

Woohoo! It IS the Sverrisson!

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Sverrisson (195?)

This is a car that my grandfather Einar Sverrisson (b. 1914 - d. 2004) built in the times when cars were luxury and hard to get in Iceland. The car was registered with the brand name "Sverrisson" and was probably constructed soon after 1950, Material came from various sources e.g. frame from Ford GPW (or Willys MB), Chevrolet engine from a small truck, and the body was custom built from wood.

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Re: barrett's #129
« Reply #46 on: April 21, 2011, 03:25:46 AM »
 :applause:

Congratulations! Not an easy one by any stretch! Another well-earned point for you