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Rookie Racer #364 - Bander Snatch FV
« on: November 08, 2012, 05:02:48 AM »
For one point: Identify this little race car.

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« Last Edit: December 18, 2012, 10:21:13 AM by Otto Puzzell »
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Re: Rookie Racer #364
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2012, 04:08:43 AM »
Rookieland is getting crowded - up!
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Re: Rookie Racer #364
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2012, 03:22:48 AM »
Up again
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Re: Rookie Racer #364
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2012, 04:26:53 AM »
Nothing?
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Re: Rookie Racer #364
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2012, 04:32:27 AM »
US built Formula Vee?

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Re: Rookie Racer #364
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2012, 04:54:38 AM »
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

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Re: Rookie Racer #364
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2012, 03:38:40 AM »
I don't wish to snark, but will this frumious racer go ever un-hunted? Have you taken a holiday, Henry?
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Re: Rookie Racer #364
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2012, 09:56:21 AM »
It isn't a Lewis by any chance?  :D

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Re: Rookie Racer #364
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2012, 09:56:57 AM »
You are on the right track, but not a Lewis
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Re: Rookie Racer #364
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2012, 10:03:41 AM »
Autodynamics (with Carroll Smith)?

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Re: Rookie Racer #364
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2012, 10:06:11 AM »
No sir.
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Re: Rookie Racer #364
« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2012, 10:09:02 AM »
Bandersnatch?

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Re: Rookie Racer #364
« Reply #12 on: December 18, 2012, 10:19:24 AM »
Voila! The builder's name was (sometimes) separated into two words, depending on the source.
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Re: Rookie Racer #364 - Bander Snatch FV
« Reply #13 on: December 18, 2012, 10:47:36 AM »
Frumious!

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Re: Rookie Racer #364 - Bander Snatch FV
« Reply #14 on: December 18, 2012, 05:22:07 PM »
For those non-native English speakers, here's the first few lines of the poem that was the clue for the name of the Formula Vee racer.

JABBERWOCKY
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872...sometimes referred to as "Alice in Wonderland")

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.


"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
  The frumious Bandersnatch!"

Yes, frumious, indeed!

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Re: Rookie Racer #364 - Bander Snatch FV
« Reply #15 on: December 19, 2012, 02:08:33 AM »
One of my favourite poems!

There is a very good German translation which goes as follows (just the part Ray quoted):

Verdaustig war's, und glasse Wieben
rotterten gorkicht im Gemank.
Gar elump war der Pluckerwank,
und die gabben Schweisel frieben.

"Hab acht vorm Zipferlak, mein Kind!
Sein Maul ist beiß, sein Griff ist bohr.
Vorm Fliegelflagel sieh dich vor,
dem mampfen Schnatterrind."