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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #125 on: December 05, 2012, 05:32:46 AM »
Yes!
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #126 on: December 05, 2012, 05:40:05 AM »
Corolla?
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #127 on: December 05, 2012, 06:10:30 AM »
#1 is not a Corolla
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #128 on: December 05, 2012, 06:33:32 AM »
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #130 on: December 05, 2012, 07:16:37 AM »
#1 is not a Corolla
Tercel?

No

OK.  I've now spent literally hours Googling rear views of every single Toyota since the 1960s that there's a picture of online and can find no match.  There are even pages and pages of nothing but Toyota rear-light clusters, but none match..

I have therefore resigned and will leave it to someone cleverer than I..
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #131 on: December 05, 2012, 08:13:02 AM »
I was going to say Toyota but you beat me to it, then I waited...
Could it be a Crown?
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #132 on: December 05, 2012, 08:16:39 AM »
I was going to say Toyota but you beat me to it, then I waited...
Could it be a Crown?

I did try the Crown (I drew up a list of every Toyota car model made since the 1960s and checked them all) but couldn't match its lights to #1!

Someone will be able to I'm sure, but not me!
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #133 on: December 05, 2012, 08:25:16 AM »
No a Crown, but you're getting closer
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #134 on: December 05, 2012, 08:26:17 AM »
Century?

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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #135 on: December 05, 2012, 08:30:21 AM »
Not that one...
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #136 on: December 05, 2012, 08:32:55 AM »
Corona

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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #137 on: December 05, 2012, 08:50:15 AM »
The error of our eye doth direct our mind  ;)
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #138 on: December 05, 2012, 09:07:34 AM »
Not a Land Cruiser, right?
I'd go for Carina, then.
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #139 on: December 05, 2012, 09:11:40 AM »
What error leads must err. O, then conclude not a Land Cruiser nor Carina
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #140 on: December 05, 2012, 09:23:44 AM »
I think #1 could be a third generation Toyota Cressida (1984-88).

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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #141 on: December 05, 2012, 09:32:41 AM »
Wise you are, Tom_I   :grad:
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #142 on: December 05, 2012, 09:42:22 AM »
It's all a matter of perspective.
I was looking for something much narrower...
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #143 on: December 05, 2012, 12:57:31 PM »
There was a rather generous clue... ;)

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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #144 on: December 05, 2012, 01:37:10 PM »
I certainly thought so  :D
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #145 on: December 05, 2012, 01:53:49 PM »
It's all a matter of perspective.

Very true, Carnut. All would do well to keep perspective in mind. For instance, looking, say, at light #3, one might do a kind of P.O.V. Waltz.



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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #146 on: December 29, 2012, 04:21:38 AM »
Need to put this one to bed. So, some clues:

#2 was introduced with a different taillight. This taillight was an update that came some years later.

#3 was sold under more than one brand name, depending upon the country. Most were ravaged by the tinworm, and are long since gone.

#11 was a work vehicle.

#12 when considering what this might be, remember: these puzzle follow an order that must be followed

#17 is a well-known car, by a well-known designer. It's been a puzzle in its own right, as well.

#19 - A one-off show car

#20 - Strictly upper-crust.
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #147 on: December 29, 2012, 07:34:02 AM »
#18 has already been identified Otto so think you must mean #19 is the show car and #20 is upper-crust?
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #148 on: December 29, 2012, 07:35:13 AM »
#19 isn't an Elva-BMW is it?
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Re: Light Show Puzzle
« Reply #149 on: December 29, 2012, 08:49:55 AM »
#18 has already been identified Otto so think you must mean #19 is the show car and #20 is upper-crust?

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