Topic: Tennnn-HUT! EEnnui #337 - Puffer Engineering Jeep Wagon Conversion

[Otto Puzzell]

For one point: Identify the base car (easy) and the company that made the extra bits on top.

Only a complete and specific answer will earn a point!  

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[Bill Murray]

Jeep CJ2 with superstructure by Cantrell??

[Otto Puzzell]

The Jeep part is correct. 

[Bill Murray]

Hmmm.

Well, Cantrell is the only major manufacturer of wooden structures on car/truck chassis that I can think
of now.  It also looks a little bit like the early Jeepnys from the Philippines but I don't think they
used that chassis.

Can you also look at my answer to your rusty pickup question which I also identified as a Willys please.

[Otto Puzzell]

Hmmm.

Well, Cantrell is the only major manufacturer of wooden structures on car/truck chassis that I can think
of now.  It also looks a little bit like the early Jeepnys from the Philippines but I don't think they
used that chassis.

Can you also look at my answer to your rusty pickup question which I also identified as a Willys please.

Not a Cantrell; not from the Philippines.

Please be patient with waiting for replies, as I don't actually 'live' at AutoPuzzles. 

[Bill Murray]

I am well and truly buried in this one.

So, to keep me from going too long in the wrong direction,
on the photo it looks like a wooden  body which I cannot
find as a manufactured unit, only homebuilts.  Is it perhaps
fiberglass/steel/plastic or aluminum of which there were many
suppliers in the day??.  I don't ask for the specific medium, just
could in be any one of them.

[Otto Puzzell]

I believe it is metal; I'll try to confirm when I'm at home.

[Otto Puzzell]

Can't tell for sure (I took this picture from an old ad), but it may indeed be wood. However, given the number of steel automobile manufactures nearby, it could easily be metal.

Up

[Otto Puzzell]

Up again

[Bill Murray]

Another hour of study.

I cannot find an exact match, but the Kelly Body Company may be a possible builder.

[Otto Puzzell]

Not Kelly. Keep fishing! 

[sixtee5cuda]

V-7 Top by Body Works of Chicago?

[Otto Puzzell]

V-7 Top by Body Works of Chicago?

No

[Bill Murray]

Station Wagons Inc. Cleveland, Ohio?

[Otto Puzzell]

No sir

[Bill Murray]

Like many, I sometimes never give up.

I ran across your photo while on a completely different search on a completely different forum.

So, Puffer Engineering, Detroit MI, circa 1945-1946 on a CJ2/CJ3 chassis.

[Otto Puzzell]

Like many, I sometimes never give up.

I ran across your photo while on a completely different search on a completely different forum.

So, Puffer Engineering, Detroit MI, circa 1945-1946 on a CJ2/CJ3 chassis.

Sticktoitiveness is one again rewarded.

[Bill Murray]

I ran across this on Google.se today

You have to look hard, but those are jeeps being converted by Karlaverken in Sweden just after the war ended, maybe 1947-8.

While I am here and with reference to Google.se, I will completely and totally make a fool of myself.

I have been using Google almost since it started.  On this forum, it has been invaluable in trying to search out answers
to some very difficult questions.

It never occurred to me until yesterday that there was more than one Google.  I thought www.google.com was universal
and covered everything.

While researching a question on a Norwegian car here yesterday, I just happened on a reference to www.google.no, no being
Norway.  I got that on the screen and typed in the same search parameters as I had on www.google.com and lo and behold,
up comes a completely different body of information.

Needless to say, I am working through my listing of the countries of the world, that I also got off of google, and bookmarking
every www.google.wherever that comes up.  I also printed off a 12 page listing from Vistawide.com that tells you how to
use your keyboard to type foreign language characters for a wide range of languages that is helpful to pin down more precise searches.

My wife now hates my computer more than ever and I am sitting here at the keyboard on our Thanksgiving Day while my son, son-in-law and
my two daughters are watching American football.

Amazing what I can still learn at 72 years of young.

[RayTheRat]

Yer not the only one who searches multiple Googles via bookmarks.  It's very handy.  I can make out a lotta the languages (although translate really helps), but I sure wish I'd studied Russian instead of French...at least for a coupla years.  I forgot most of the French until I was on the salt flats a few years ago and there was a French Canadian team that brought...get ready for this...a snowmobile that ran over 200 mph!  Few of them spoke English and my French was tainted from where I'd last used it, Morocco.  We resorted to a lotta gesturing and "patois."  But they bought enough photos from me to buy a new camera!  Meanwhile, I can barely make out a few characters in Cyrillic...upper case.  When I was in Greece, I was just as lost when trying to read lower case stuff.  It was "all Greek to me." 

Anyway, continuing to learn is a great thing.  I hope it keeps going as long as I do.

RtR

[woodinsight]

I ran across this on Google.se today

You have to look hard, but those are jeeps being converted by Karlaverken in Sweden just after the war ended, maybe 1947-8.

While I am here and with reference to Google.se, I will completely and totally make a fool of myself.

I have been using Google almost since it started.  On this forum, it has been invaluable in trying to search out answers
to some very difficult questions.

It never occurred to me until yesterday that there was more than one Google.  I thought www.google.com was universal
and covered everything.

While researching a question on a Norwegian car here yesterday, I just happened on a reference to www.google.no, no being
Norway.  I got that on the screen and typed in the same search parameters as I had on www.google.com and lo and behold,
up comes a completely different body of information.

Needless to say, I am working through my listing of the countries of the world, that I also got off of google, and bookmarking
every www.google.wherever that comes up.  I also printed off a 12 page listing from Vistawide.com that tells you how to
use your keyboard to type foreign language characters for a wide range of languages that is helpful to pin down more precise searches.

My wife now hates my computer more than ever and I am sitting here at the keyboard on our Thanksgiving Day while my son, son-in-law and
my two daughters are watching American football.

Amazing what I can still learn at 72 years of young.

Bill, that's really helpful 
I'd been trying to figure out how to type foreign language characters on my Mac for some time now, so no excuse now!

I've also used a couple of google alternatives in the past but didn't realise that there were so many available. Although I use google quite frequently I have to say the results from google.com are often disappointing and then I usually resort to my library and databases to find the answer.

I wholeheartedly agree that one never stops learning. I am also 72 but wish there was 48 hours in every day as I still have so much to achieve.

[Carnut]

I've pointed out a few times here that you get different results on Google depending on which country you're in.
So it is that case that some puzzlers might post a puzzle thinking it's solvable by Googling because that's how they found it, when in actual fact nothing comes up if you Google on the English or American version which so many of us are using.

Even Googling in the foreign language doesn't necessarily do the trick; you actually have to go on to the Google site of the country whose language you want to search in, as Bill found out regarding Norway..