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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #25 on: August 25, 2013, 06:20:57 AM »
 A PM would have been appreciated. Oh well...

Since I've given it away I'll award that one to Wendax. He's been on a tear so far!
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #26 on: August 25, 2013, 06:56:25 AM »
Thank you!  ;D
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #27 on: August 25, 2013, 04:09:31 PM »
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on August 25, 2013, 03:57:39 AM
Quote from: Wendax on August 24, 2013, 02:18:20 PM
Car #15 is the 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS of Bret Michaels who I think is pictured as Star #6.

You ID'd the Camaro - #6 is not Michaels.

No more guesses about Car 15 or Star 11 for you.
I'll take that as "Nomore guesses about Car 15 or Star 6 for you", so I'll keep quiet about Star 6 although I found out meanwhile.  ;)
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #28 on: August 25, 2013, 05:13:48 PM »
Car 12 is a circa 1973 Cadillac Eldorado. This car appeared on the BBC News website here in the UK in June this year, in an article about the National Museum of African American History, which I think is still under construction in Washington DC.

The car was donated to the museum's stock collection by its owner Chuck Berry, who must be Star 8.
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #29 on: August 26, 2013, 05:35:00 AM »
Another one where I am sure about the car and its owner, but not about the star picture. Car #17 shows Al Jardine's 1971 Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda recreation. I think Star #10 is a picture of the young Beach Boy.
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #30 on: August 27, 2013, 05:08:01 AM »
Car #2 is the '32 Ford hot rod that Star #16, Ricky Nelson, was driving in the TV series “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.”
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #31 on: August 27, 2013, 05:38:10 AM »
Quote from: Tom_I on August 25, 2013, 05:13:48 PM
Car 12 is a circa 1973 Cadillac Eldorado. This car appeared on the BBC News website here in the UK in June this year, in an article about the National Museum of African American History, which I think is still under construction in Washington DC.

The car was donated to the museum's stock collection by its owner Chuck Berry, who must be Star 8.

I don't know about the BBC, but that's Chuck and his Cadillac.
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #32 on: August 27, 2013, 05:39:37 AM »
Quote from: Wendax on August 26, 2013, 05:35:00 AM
Another one where I am sure about the car and its owner, but not about the star picture. Car #17 shows Al Jardine's 1971 Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda recreation. I think Star #10 is a picture of the young Beach Boy.

Correct!
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #33 on: August 27, 2013, 05:42:27 AM »
Quote from: Wendax on August 27, 2013, 05:08:01 AM
Car #2 is the '32 Ford hot rod that Star #16, Ricky Nelson, was driving in the TV series “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.”

Another one correct!
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #34 on: August 27, 2013, 03:17:26 PM »
I really should have recognised Star 4 earlier, as I identified him in another puzzle about eighteen months ago, though the picture was rather different. He's American singer and actor Mel Tormé.

I found some discussion on MG forums of an MG TC which he bought new in New York in 1949, and which still exists, so I think the link is with Car 5.
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #35 on: August 27, 2013, 04:32:36 PM »
These are going fast - only three pairings to go!
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #36 on: August 28, 2013, 07:01:19 AM »
Star #13 is the young Alice Cooper, his 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback is Car #16.
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #37 on: August 29, 2013, 06:37:39 AM »
Right again

Two cars; two stars remaining
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #38 on: August 29, 2013, 06:48:07 AM »
The remaining stars both rose to fame around the same time, and both later joined other groups that also charted singles and albums on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #39 on: August 29, 2013, 07:04:39 AM »
The last pair I am allowed to puzzle is Star #7 and Car #11. I'm not 100 percent sure, but I think it is Eric Clapton and one of his beloved Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer.
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #40 on: August 29, 2013, 07:09:08 AM »
# 7 is not Mr. Clapton
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #41 on: August 29, 2013, 07:25:12 AM »
Game over for me  ;)
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #42 on: August 29, 2013, 07:44:12 AM »
Star 7 is George Harrison. I put off trying to identify his car earlier, as he owned so many. Now it's much easier. Car 10 is his 1969 Ferrari 365 GTC.

Which leaves Star 6 and Car 11, and I am currently stumped. As Wendax said, the car is a Ferrari 365 GT4 BB Berlinetta Boxer, 1973-1976, but I haven't been able to identify Star 6. Unless the picture is grossly misleading (and that's always a possibility with Otto!), he's a musician, and is sporting a very 1960s haircut.

I'll keep trying, but if anyone can identify him, there's a point up for grabs.

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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #43 on: August 31, 2013, 05:03:42 AM »
Quote from: Tom_I on August 29, 2013, 07:44:12 AM
Star 7 is George Harrison. I put off trying to identify his car earlier, as he owned so many. Now it's much easier. Car 10 is his 1969 Ferrari 365 GTC.

Correct!

Quote from: Tom_I on August 29, 2013, 07:44:12 AM
Which leaves Star 6 and Car 11, and I am currently stumped. As Wendax said, the car is a Ferrari 365 GT4 BB Berlinetta Boxer, 1973-1976, but I haven't been able to identify Star 6. Unless the picture is grossly misleading (and that's always a possibility with Otto!), he's a musician, and is sporting a very 1960s haircut.

I'll keep trying, but if anyone can identify him, there's a point up for grabs.

A couple of clues here:

#6's haircut is groovy indeed. Over the year, his appearance didn't vary much, other than than the length of that hair. This last remaining mystery star first rose to fame (as you surmised) in the 1960's. His band at that time recorded a song that made it almost to the top of the charts in the US and the UK. It was covered by another artist 20+ years later, who took it to number one. Both Star 6 and the artist who re-recorded the song were seen in motion pictures that ostensibly represented fictional and real-life happening of the decade to which 6's haircut points.

Another interesting thing about that song. It was 'written' in 20 minutes, in a place thousands of miles away from #6's home, but it borrowed liberally from another composition by an an artist born hundreds of miles away, but who did his best work in the country in which #6 was born (I won't say "a short distance" because somebody who drove that distance some decades ago might take issue with such a statement  ;) ). The 20-minute composition came from two writers born almost 200 years after the original composer, who, I expect took quite a bit longer to pen his piece. 
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #44 on: August 31, 2013, 05:47:11 AM »
Now that's what I call a clue!

But the word "groovy" was enough. The song composed in 20 minutes is "A Groovy Kind of Love" by Toni Wine and Carole Bayer Sager loosely based on a piece by Clementi (1752-1832) and recorded by The Mindbenders (without Wayne Fontana) in the 60s, and later in the 80s by Phil Collins.

So Star 6 is Eric Stewart, guitarist and vocalist with The Mindbenders, and later founder member of the group 10 cc.

And there's a photo on his website of Car 11, the Ferrari 365 GT4 BB Boxer.

And that's him in the middle below.


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« Reply #45 on: August 31, 2013, 06:12:44 AM »
Well solved!

The Mindbenders appeared as the band at the dance in To Sir With Love, and backed Lulu's singing of the title song during the film.

Phil Collins' version of Groovy was in his 1988 film about the Great Rain Robbery, Buster.  Collins was also had an extra in the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, playing (what else?) a screening teen.  His appearance in the film adaptation of  Ian Fleming's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car  ended up on the cutting room floor.
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Re: PAFW Cars N Stars
« Reply #46 on: August 31, 2013, 06:18:48 AM »
Well played, all. The points total:

Wendax   10
Tom_!   5
Ray B.    2
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