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What's this exactly and who's the guy in the picture?

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Re: NEH 3310
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2014, 08:11:06 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 3310
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2014, 08:59:05 AM »
Is it a home-made golf car,by using a spatz for it,s base, not sure who the gentleman is yet?

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Re: NEH 3310
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2014, 10:03:37 AM »
Is it a home-made golf car,by using a spatz for it,s base, not sure who the gentleman is yet?

No, believe he used it on the road; base isn't Spatz..
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Re: NEH 3310
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2014, 11:39:36 AM »
The wheels could come from an AMC Pacer,so i will guess a Pcer based car?

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Re: NEH 3310
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2014, 12:27:48 PM »
The wheels could come from an AMC Pacer,so i will guess a Pcer based car?

Not exactly but close.
What was that car related to?
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Re: NEH 3310
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2014, 04:35:23 PM »
Any connection with Nash or Hudson?

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Re: NEH 3310
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2014, 05:46:40 AM »
Any connection with Nash or Hudson?

None.
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Re: NEH 3310
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2014, 01:59:15 PM »
Was it built in the USA?

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Re: NEH 3310
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2014, 05:00:25 AM »
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Re: NEH 3310
« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2014, 05:24:28 AM »
Professionals?
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Re: NEH 3310
« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2014, 05:34:36 AM »
The Warrior!
And he's McKinley Thompson.

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Re: NEH 3310
« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2014, 05:37:19 AM »
Beaten to it! Based on a Renault R10  with a modified Royalex body.
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: NEH 3310
« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2014, 06:04:40 AM »
Yes - PJ gets the point!  Bad luck nicanary; you did add important information which I should perhaps have asked for all along but hadn't..
I thought frederick59 might be getting there with his AMC guess as AMC were connected with Renault at one time, re-badging some Renaults for the US market.
McKinley Thompson was a Ford designer.

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To AlexFrance's earlier question "any connection to a Nash or Hudson" in a way there is, as via Rambler these ultimately became AMC, which Renault acquired in the late 1970s, with AMC selling the 5 (Le Car) and building the Renault 9 (Alliance) and 11 (Encore) in the USA, plus of course Renault assembling Ramblers in Belgium for selected European markets in the 1960s (and also distributing Jeeps later on).

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