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Solved - NEH 3309: Alex Tremulis 1951 design originally for Tucker - Concept Sports Car
« on: March 07, 2014, 07:44:36 AM »
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Re: NEH 3309
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2014, 06:40:13 AM »
Very easy Expert point; too easy!  Wake up rookies!
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Re: NEH 3309
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2014, 07:25:55 AM »
alex tremulis sports car concept?
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Re: NEH 3309
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2014, 08:21:18 AM »
Quote from: kwgibbs on March 14, 2014, 07:25:55 AM
alex tremulis sports car concept?

Yes, it's by Alex Tremulis.
So I'll lock it for you now to identify it.
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Re: NEH 3309
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2014, 08:41:24 AM »
Is it the, Tucker-Tremulis-Neidlinger-Kaiser-Frazer, 1951?
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Re: NEH 3309
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2014, 08:42:00 AM »
Quote from: kwgibbs on March 14, 2014, 08:41:24 AM
Is it the, Tucker-Tremulis-Neidlinger-Kaiser-Frazer, 1951?

No..
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Re: NEH 3309
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2014, 09:19:48 AM »
Is it the Kaiser-Frazer aluminum car?
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Re: NEH 3309
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2014, 10:06:36 AM »
Quote from: kwgibbs on March 14, 2014, 09:19:48 AM
Is it the Kaiser-Frazer aluminum car?

Nothing to do with Kaiser-Frazer at all AFAIK!
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Re: NEH 3309
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2014, 10:56:47 AM »
Quote from: kwgibbs on March 14, 2014, 07:25:55 AM
alex tremulis sports car concept?

Actually I misled you a bit as this is in fact what it is.
It did later morph into a Kaiser-Frazer so I was also wrong when I said it had nothing to do with them, although it didn't start out as a Kaiser-Frazer.
So all I need to know now for the point is who/what was it a Sports Car Concept for?

Still locked for kwgibbs!
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Re: NEH 3309
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2014, 09:07:08 PM »
was the design to be for the XK-120 Jaguar?
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Re: NEH 3309
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2014, 09:43:21 AM »
Quote from: kwgibbs on March 14, 2014, 09:07:08 PM
was the design to be for the XK-120 Jaguar?

No!  For whom did Alex Tremulis do some work before being employed by Kaiser-Frazer?
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Re: NEH 3309
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2014, 09:55:18 AM »
Long shot:  Tucker Talisman, which probably was not designed by Tremulis
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Re: NEH 3309
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2014, 10:49:25 AM »
I think we're still locked for kwgibbs?

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Is it the, Tucker-Tremulis-Neidlinger-Kaiser-Frazer, 1951?

We got an unequivocal "NO" to this guess, although at least two web sites identify the exact quiz photo as exactly that. Still looking for an alternate name, nothing so far.
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Re: NEH 3309
« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2014, 11:06:02 AM »
Didn,t Alex Tremulis work for a design firm-Tammen&Denison, before Tucker?
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Re: NEH 3309
« Reply #14 on: March 15, 2014, 01:10:01 PM »
Well it's actually Tucker I was looking for; you hadn't mentioned the name previously on its own!
I've seen those threads about the Tucker-Tremulis-Neidlinger-Kaiser-Frazer as well but I believe that covers a whole series of cars (which this one may indeed have ultimately joined) but as far as I understand it Tremulis designed this, his Concept Sports Car, whilst still doing work for Tucker and only resurrected the same thing later when he started working for Kaiser-Frazer.  If I'm wrong I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than I will correct me; I'm not a big expert on these designs.
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Re: Solved - NEH 3309: Alex Tremulis 1951 design originally for Tucker - Concept Sports Car
« Reply #15 on: March 15, 2014, 01:19:09 PM »
I see what you mean now,he certainly designed a good many cars,thank you for the point!
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Re: Solved - NEH 3309: Alex Tremulis 1951 design originally for Tucker - Concept Sports Car
« Reply #16 on: March 15, 2014, 11:06:09 PM »
Good job.

Yup it was first done as a Tucker sports car that would have eventually competed with the Jaguar XK120.  Then Tremulis and Neidlinger teamed up to sell it as a custom-built sports car, then he reworked the model to the photo seen in the puzzle for Kaiser-Frazer.

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