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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #25 on: August 28, 2013, 07:35:22 AM »
Black Hole-bound?
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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #26 on: November 19, 2013, 03:41:45 PM »
Gainsborough?
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #27 on: November 20, 2013, 04:40:15 AM »
Gainsborough?

Seems I forgot to move this one to the BH!
Not Gainsborough..  It's 2 words I'm looking for; G********  R******* (don't count the stars!)
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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #28 on: November 20, 2013, 05:10:35 AM »
So I'm guessing it's Something Roadster, with the first word being the name of the builder, which included a G and a B ?
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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #29 on: November 20, 2013, 07:07:51 AM »
So I'm guessing it's Something Roadster, with the first word being the name of the builder, which included a G and a B ?

We've already established it's a Reliant-based Special but I don't know of a name for it beyond that; what we're looking for now is its builder, which is what the hint referred to.  So Roadster is not the second word, but the first word includes the 'B'!
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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #30 on: April 18, 2014, 01:48:52 AM »
Is the first word (name) Gilbert?

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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #31 on: April 18, 2014, 05:24:18 AM »
Is the first word (name) Gilbert?

No, but the first 2 letters are correct and there's a 'b' in it..
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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #32 on: April 18, 2014, 05:33:11 AM »
Gibson?

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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #33 on: April 18, 2014, 09:00:42 AM »
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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #34 on: April 19, 2014, 03:49:33 AM »
Is it open?
I have a guess...

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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #35 on: April 19, 2014, 06:04:16 AM »
Any thing to do with Iain and Teresa Gibson who built a Reliant Kitten based trike?


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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #36 on: April 20, 2014, 08:12:10 AM »
Any thing to do with Iain and Teresa Gibson who built a Reliant Kitten based trike?


Feel free to place your guess, Paul!

I'm not sure.
I'll have to look back into my paperwork.

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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #37 on: April 20, 2014, 08:22:05 AM »
Gibson Runabout?
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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #38 on: April 20, 2014, 08:43:47 AM »
It was a simple guess...are we looking for a name, like Robert Gibson?

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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #39 on: April 21, 2014, 02:05:04 PM »
Gibson Runabout?

Not that..

It was a simple guess...are we looking for a name, like Robert Gibson?

No, I don't know the first name of Mr Gibson...
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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #40 on: April 21, 2014, 02:24:24 PM »
So I'm guessing it's Something Roadster, with the first word being the name of the builder, which included a G and a B ?

We've already established it's a Reliant-based Special but I don't know of a name for it beyond that; what we're looking for now is its builder, which is what the hint referred to.  So Roadster is not the second word, but the first word includes the 'B'!
If R***** is not part of the builder's name it has to be part of "a name for it beyond that (Reliant Special)?

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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #41 on: April 21, 2014, 02:31:00 PM »
So I'm guessing it's Something Roadster, with the first word being the name of the builder, which included a G and a B ?

We've already established it's a Reliant-based Special but I don't know of a name for it beyond that; what we're looking for now is its builder, which is what the hint referred to.  So Roadster is not the second word, but the first word includes the 'B'!
If R***** is not part of the builder's name it has to be part of "a name for it beyond that (Reliant Special)?

It's the name of the company who built it; Gibson R*********
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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #42 on: April 21, 2014, 02:32:12 PM »
Soemthing easy, like "Restorations"?

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Re: NEH 2516
« Reply #43 on: April 21, 2014, 02:36:01 PM »
Soemthing easy, like "Restorations"?

That's exactly what it is!

It's a 1984 Reliant Fox-based special built by Gibson Restorations.  I can't remember where they were, it was either London or somewhere like Glouestershire.

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Wow...that was a lucky guess!

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Wow...that was a lucky guess!

Maybe, but it took someone over a year to come up with it!
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