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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #25 on: August 28, 2013, 06:46:32 PM »
It's petrol-powered not electric, has nothing to do with any Corvair and it's not based on a Crosley.
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #26 on: August 29, 2013, 02:37:35 AM »
Proposal drawing by, or for, one of the "Big 3" US automakers?
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #27 on: August 29, 2013, 03:06:24 AM »
is it a design by Trevor Fiore
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #28 on: August 29, 2013, 03:33:28 AM »
A Bob Gurr sketch?
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #29 on: August 29, 2013, 04:31:40 AM »
Quote from: 4popoid on August 29, 2013, 02:37:35 AM
Proposal drawing by, or for, one of the "Big 3" US automakers?

No..

Quote from: hermanoto on August 29, 2013, 03:06:24 AM
is it a design by Trevor Fiore

..no.. 

Quote from: Otto Puzzell on August 29, 2013, 03:33:28 AM
A Bob Gurr sketch?

..I don't have an actual name of the person who did the sketch, but I suspect not him.
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #30 on: August 29, 2013, 06:43:19 AM »
I think it's time to refer some of the puzzlers to Carnut's earlier post - it was intended to be Mini-powered. Some of the questions have diverged somewhat from this path...

Was it anything to do with the BMC importers ?
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #31 on: August 29, 2013, 08:30:33 AM »
Quote from: nicanary on August 29, 2013, 06:43:19 AM
I think it's time to refer some of the puzzlers to Carnut's earlier post - it was intended to be Mini-powered. Some of the questions have diverged somewhat from this path...

Was it anything to do with the BMC importers ?

I thought I'd said that too but I didn't look back either..!

No, nothing to do with the importers.
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #32 on: August 30, 2013, 06:00:01 AM »
It looks a bit like an Almquist Thunderbolt - any relation?

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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #33 on: August 30, 2013, 07:34:27 AM »
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on August 30, 2013, 06:00:01 AM
It looks a bit like an Almquist Thunderbolt - any relation?

Not at all, no.  Its intention being Mini-based it's much smaller than that I think.
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #34 on: August 30, 2013, 08:00:30 AM »
Almquist made a lot of different cars - I wasn't suggesting it was that specific model.

Was the puzzle drawing by Bruce Meyers?
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #35 on: August 30, 2013, 09:03:40 AM »
Quote from: Carnut on August 29, 2013, 04:31:40 AM

Quote from: Otto Puzzell on August 29, 2013, 03:33:28 AM
A Bob Gurr sketch?

..I don't have an actual name of the person who did the sketch, but I suspect not him.
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on August 30, 2013, 08:00:30 AM
Almquist made a lot of different cars - I wasn't suggesting it was that specific model.

Was the puzzle drawing by Bruce Meyers?

See above.  Nothing has changed - I still don't know an actual name!
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #36 on: August 31, 2013, 04:17:58 AM »
OK - let me re-phrase - was it to built by B. F. Meyers & Co., as a kit to use with Mini mechanical bits?
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #37 on: August 31, 2013, 06:29:35 AM »
Was the company already in business making Kit-cars for other chassis ?
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #38 on: August 31, 2013, 09:14:20 AM »
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on August 31, 2013, 04:17:58 AM
OK - let me re-phrase - was it to built by B. F. Meyers & Co., as a kit to use with Mini mechanical bits?

No..

Quote from: nicanary on August 31, 2013, 06:29:35 AM
Was the company already in business making Kit-cars for other chassis ?

..no existing car company was involved.  This is only a conceptual proposal.

I think it only fair to say now that I'm almost certain you won't find the answer on the 'net; you need to go through your supply of old US car magazines..
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #39 on: August 31, 2013, 11:03:39 AM »
Quote from: Carnut on August 31, 2013, 09:14:20 AM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on August 31, 2013, 04:17:58 AM
OK - let me re-phrase - was it to built by B. F. Meyers & Co., as a kit to use with Mini mechanical bits?

No..

Quote from: nicanary on August 31, 2013, 06:29:35 AM
Was the company already in business making Kit-cars for other chassis ?

..no existing car company was involved.  This is only a conceptual proposal.

I think it only fair to say now that I'm almost certain you won't find the answer on the 'net; you need to go through your supply of old US car magazines..

That won't take long. Nada.  :'(
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #40 on: November 19, 2013, 02:47:13 AM »
As this isn't the product of an actual car company, was it a magazine project?
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #41 on: November 19, 2013, 06:23:28 AM »
Quote from: Djetset on November 19, 2013, 02:47:13 AM
As this isn't the product of an actual car company, was it a magazine project?

Crikey, I thought this one was in the Black Hole!

Although the idea was to base it on a real car (a Mini), it was indeed a purely theoretical magazine project!
A product of someone's imagination...
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #42 on: November 21, 2013, 06:50:44 PM »
Hmmm, as I know from a few of my own puzzles (some still unresolved), and others (such as the recent Road and Track Le Mans Coupe from 1960) in the early 1960s imaginary magazine car projects seemed to be popular with both the editors and their readers. 

Is this one a 'dream car' by Sports Car Illustrated as it has their 'look' about it?
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #43 on: November 22, 2013, 04:14:11 AM »
Quote from: Djetset on November 21, 2013, 06:50:44 PM
Hmmm, as I know from a few of my own puzzles (some still unresolved), and others (such as the recent Road and Track Le Mans Coupe from 1960) in the early 1960s imaginary magazine car projects seemed to be popular with both the editors and their readers. 

Is this one a 'dream car' by Sports Car Illustrated as it has their 'look' about it?

Right track, wrong mag (though you have got two words of its title right, which earns a lock!)...
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #44 on: November 22, 2013, 09:33:06 AM »
Thanks for the lock.  Sports Car Catalog?
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #45 on: November 22, 2013, 09:56:20 AM »
Quote from: Djetset on November 22, 2013, 09:33:06 AM
Thanks for the lock.  Sports Car Catalog?

No!  You'll have to gen up on your period American car mags!
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #46 on: November 22, 2013, 12:43:55 PM »
Sports Car Guide?
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #47 on: November 22, 2013, 01:29:29 PM »
Quote from: Djetset on November 22, 2013, 12:43:55 PM
Sports Car Guide?

Aha - progress!
Yes, it's a project published in the Sports Car Guide.
Now all we need to know is its name, though establishing when might help with that - maybe!
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #48 on: November 22, 2013, 01:40:12 PM »
Sixties Spider?
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Re: NEH 2525
« Reply #49 on: November 22, 2013, 07:24:44 PM »
Quote from: Djetset on November 22, 2013, 01:40:12 PM
Sixties Spider?

That's not it's name, or anything like it, though it does date from the Sixties..
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