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For 1 point, identify this vintage automobile, and the man at the controls.  

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« Last Edit: April 28, 2012, 03:10:47 AM by Otto Puzzell »
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Re: Ancient Rookie #203
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2012, 04:44:12 AM »
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Re: Ancient Rookie #203
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2012, 03:35:37 AM »
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Re: Ancient Rookie #203
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2012, 05:14:06 AM »
Well it looks like one of the many steam buggies of the late 1890s so I'll try the best-known which is Locomobile and as the Stanley twins sold their system in 1899 to A.L. Barber whose company was called Locomobile, I'll suggest he's the man and that's the car and it's 1899 as the car isn't finished!
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Re: Ancient Rookie #203
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2012, 02:32:38 AM »
Good guess, but not Barber, and not Locomobile
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Re: Ancient Rookie #203
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2012, 04:17:41 AM »
In that case the same logic says it might be a Mobile with J.B. Walker up ;D
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Re: Ancient Rookie #203
« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2012, 04:23:44 AM »
Nope :)
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Re: Ancient Rookie #203
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2012, 07:44:39 AM »
USA?

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Re: Ancient Rookie #203
« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2012, 11:20:26 AM »
1899, George Foss with his Fossmobile

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Re: Ancient Rookie #203
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2012, 03:08:46 AM »
The year is off, but that wasn't required for the point.

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