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Puzzle #264 is ready for takeoff! - Ford Centaur, 1954
« on: July 16, 2012, 04:43:23 AM »
For one point: from which automaker's design department did this one spring, and what is it called?

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Re: Puzzle #264 is ready for takeoff!
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2012, 04:37:54 AM »
One whole week, and not one guess.

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Re: Puzzle #264 is ready for takeoff!
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2012, 01:20:41 PM »
Is it a Ford design from the 1950's
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Re: Puzzle #264 is ready for takeoff!
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2012, 03:54:55 PM »
I need a bit more than that to award the point.
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Re: Puzzle #264 is ready for takeoff!
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2012, 12:22:04 AM »
1955 Lincoln Futura...possibly an artists rendering or scale model? It doesn't look quite like the actual car...
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Re: Puzzle #264 is ready for takeoff!
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2012, 04:33:31 AM »
Not 1955; not a Futura.
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Re: Puzzle #264 is ready for takeoff!
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2012, 01:25:46 PM »
Is it the Ford Atmos
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Re: Puzzle #264 is ready for takeoff!
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2012, 02:36:08 PM »
No sir
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Re: Puzzle #264 is ready for takeoff!
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2012, 03:11:52 PM »
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on July 24, 2012, 04:33:31 AM
Not 1955; not a Futura.

So it is Lincoln?
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Re: Puzzle #264 is ready for takeoff!
« Reply #9 on: July 24, 2012, 03:56:29 PM »
It has some styling elements of some late 50's Lincolns, but was not named as such.
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Re: Puzzle #264 is ready for takeoff!
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2012, 10:26:59 PM »
This would be a clay model circa 1954 for the Ford Centaur.
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Re: Puzzle #264 is ready for takeoff!
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2012, 03:34:20 AM »
That's it
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