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Solved - NEH 2615: Carl Holch Special
« on: April 10, 2013, 07:46:17 AM »
What's this, by whom, from when - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 2615
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2013, 05:01:10 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 2615
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2013, 05:54:47 AM »
That looks like a 'fifties Buick windscreen, so perhaps a Buick base?

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Re: NEH 2615
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2013, 07:48:43 AM »
That looks like a 'fifties Buick windscreen, so perhaps a Buick base?

No Buick in it that I am aware of!
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Re: NEH 2615
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2013, 12:06:56 PM »
Ford T Bird base?

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Re: NEH 2615
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2013, 02:32:21 PM »
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Re: NEH 2615
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2013, 07:12:41 PM »
Is this car American?

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Re: NEH 2615
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2013, 04:40:21 AM »
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Re: NEH 2615
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2013, 09:48:01 AM »
victress?

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Re: NEH 2615
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2013, 09:56:07 AM »
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Re: NEH 2615
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2013, 10:09:18 AM »
was it a kitcar?

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Re: NEH 2615
« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2013, 10:39:55 AM »
was it a kitcar?

No, believe a home-made special (no doubt using parts from other cars though).
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Re: NEH 2615
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2013, 10:51:24 AM »
Is its name,detroiter?

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Re: NEH 2615
« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2013, 11:02:14 AM »
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Re: NEH 2615
« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2013, 11:45:10 AM »
Mid-1950's "Carl Holch Special"from Massachusetts.

I was pretty sure this car had to be on the "Forgotten Fiberglass" site somewhere, but I had almost given up any hope of finding it. Carl Holch's son, Eric did a nice little write-up on the car, even though it actually raises as many questions as it answers. Apparently this car was built from the molds originally used to make bodies for another car - although no one seems to be able to identify what car that might have been. Particulars seem to include an old Mercury chassis and a porthole top from a two-seat T-Bird.
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Re: NEH 2615
« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2013, 11:49:07 AM »
There isn't much escapes Geoff!
You do sometimes need to do a lot of digging though if you're not equipped with the name to start with - there's so much info there.
Anyway, you got it.  Well done!
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Re: Solved - NEH 2615: Carl Holch Special
« Reply #16 on: April 19, 2013, 12:11:20 PM »
I always maintain that the search is half the fun, and I usually trip across some very interesting cars along the way!

Now if I can only remember them all . . .
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