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Puzzle #34 - Solved! Triden Sports
« on: September 09, 2006, 09:47:13 AM »
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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2006, 06:32:07 PM »
The side of the body is very similar to the Austin-Healey 100/3000. But the front is different and the body seems to have been made of grp?

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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2006, 10:41:48 PM »
A Turner?

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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2006, 03:51:02 AM »
The car has a fiberglass body. It is neither a Turner nor a Austin-Healey.
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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2006, 10:46:28 AM »
Buckler?

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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2006, 10:56:22 AM »
No, not one of those.
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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2006, 07:37:45 AM »
Can it be a british EB (Edwards Brothers) from 1959-1964?

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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2006, 08:03:17 AM »
Nope.

Not from the UK.
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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2006, 06:03:21 AM »
The chassis of this car is based on a famous British make, but the drivetrain is indigenous to the country in which it was constructed, as pictured above.
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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2006, 04:29:33 AM »
Fair dinkum, eh mate?
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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2006, 08:27:13 AM »
Ooooooooooh..... :o

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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2006, 05:56:28 PM »
A FAIRTHORPE BODYSHELL POWERED BY HOLDEN .

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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2006, 03:24:12 AM »
This car ran with a Holden engine; not a Fairthorpe.
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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #13 on: October 06, 2006, 04:46:29 AM »
Our more adventurous sleuths might be interested to know this very car is for sale, right now. 

Now, throw away that Vegemite sandwich, get youself a bowl of bean sprouts, and get Googling!  ;D
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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2006, 07:31:35 PM »
Devin SS?

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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #15 on: October 26, 2006, 03:28:14 AM »
Not a Devin.
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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #16 on: October 26, 2006, 04:49:49 PM »
How about a Buchanan?

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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #17 on: October 27, 2006, 03:08:16 AM »
No one of those.
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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #18 on: November 02, 2006, 08:13:47 AM »
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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #19 on: November 24, 2006, 07:44:42 AM »
Perhaps one of our fans of "California Specials" can chime on this one?
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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #20 on: November 24, 2006, 07:04:23 PM »
A 1957 Triden Sports, to which I raise a glass of cheap domestic white wine :)
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Re: Puzzle #34
« Reply #21 on: November 25, 2006, 03:03:07 AM »
Wow - you guys are running the tables! Well done, sir! Correct again.  ;D
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NEH 1976
« Reply #22 on: July 31, 2012, 08:04:03 AM »
This is in fact a repost, but from a very long time ago.
So what is it, from when - for 1 point?:


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Re: NEH 1976
« Reply #23 on: July 31, 2012, 09:36:11 AM »
Talbot Lago?

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