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Re: NEH 1761
« Reply #25 on: July 10, 2012, 08:53:55 PM »
Is this not Alf Naslund's Leopard, a 1930s-style sports car built in 2005?
I don't know what it was based on.... :-\
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Re: NEH 1761
« Reply #26 on: July 11, 2012, 04:55:53 AM »
Quote from: woodinsight on July 10, 2012, 08:53:55 PM
Is this not Alf Naslund's Leopard, a 1930s-style sports car built in 2005?
I don't know what it was based on.... :-\

No, not that.
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Re: NEH 1761
« Reply #27 on: July 12, 2012, 07:51:24 PM »
Based on a Ford Taunus perhaps?

As to date a blind guess says 1989
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Re: NEH 1761
« Reply #28 on: July 13, 2012, 04:08:28 AM »
Quote from: D-type on July 12, 2012, 07:51:24 PM
Based on a Ford Taunus perhaps?

As to date a blind guess says 1989

It's a Ford base, but not a Taunus.
The date is a long way out though according to my information, which I hope is correct...
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Re: NEH 1761
« Reply #29 on: August 26, 2012, 06:31:41 PM »
Do the icy fingers of the Black Hole beckon?
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Re: NEH 1761
« Reply #30 on: August 27, 2012, 04:45:15 AM »
As it's been established that it's a Ford-based replica can I make a guess and say it looks like (judging by the wheels and the size of the car) it was built from one of the Ford V8 racing specials that were quite numerous in Sweden in the 1930s.
I would guess though that the car was rebuilt in the 1970s/1980s.
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Re: NEH 1761
« Reply #31 on: August 27, 2012, 10:50:28 AM »
Quote from: woodinsight on August 27, 2012, 04:45:15 AM
As it's been established that it's a Ford-based replica can I make a guess and say it looks like (judging by the wheels and the size of the car) it was built from one of the Ford V8 racing specials that were quite numerous in Sweden in the 1930s.
I would guess though that the car was rebuilt in the 1970s/1980s.

Good guess!
I'll give you the point as we're unlikely to get any more info about this one (I don't know the builder's name, just that it was a Swedish Ford V8 special built in 1937).
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Re: Solved - NEH 1761: Swedish special on 1937 Ford V8
« Reply #32 on: August 27, 2012, 12:51:43 PM »
Thank you - if I find out more I'll post it here
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Re: Solved - NEH 1761: Swedish special on 1937 Ford V8
« Reply #33 on: August 28, 2012, 08:11:50 AM »
Here's the puzzle photo pre-alteration:

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