Author Topic: Solved - NEH 4525: Mercedes in film "Santo el enmascarado de plata y Blue Demon contra los monstruos (Read 515 times)

Carnut · « **on:** February 24, 2016, 07:03:34 AM »

What's this, for 1 point?:

Remember - solving puzzles using 'Google Search by Image' is BANNED on AutoPuzzles!

Carnut · « **Reply #1 on:** March 02, 2016, 05:11:57 AM »

Experts?

Carnut · « **Reply #2 on:** March 30, 2016, 04:15:40 AM »

Pro's with fewer than 400 points?

mekubb · « **Reply #3 on:** March 30, 2016, 08:26:32 AM »

The driver seems to have a silver skull

, is it a car from a movie ?

Carnut · « **Reply #4 on:** March 30, 2016, 09:08:39 AM »

Quote from: mekubb on March 30, 2016, 08:26:32 AM

The driver seems to have a silver skull , is it a car from a movie ?

It is a movie car, yes.

fyreline · « **Reply #5 on:** March 30, 2016, 10:54:47 AM »

I thought that the side view of the front end in your photo showed a fairly prominent grille - so that (and the wheels) led to a quick search of the movie databases about film-featured automobiles, which turned up what's simply called a "custom Mercedes-Benz convertible" in a movie entitled "Santo and Blue Demon against the Monsters" made in 1970. I can't seem to find much more on it than that, although there are other photographs of the car showing a good-sized Mercedes grille - from a 300, perhaps? Never heard of the movie.The rest of the car looks a little crudely put together - maybe just a studio-built movie car?

Carnut · « **Reply #6 on:** March 30, 2016, 11:13:39 AM »

That's it, yes. Actually I didn't think the body looked so crude so I thought it might fool a few...!

The film was actually called "Santo el enmascarado de plata y Blue Demon contra los monstruos" which is roughly what you said apart from the 'enmascarado de plata' bit and I haven't checked what that means (the masked Santo?).

Below are other pictures of the car in the film.

Well done.

fyreline · « **Reply #7 on:** March 30, 2016, 03:25:00 PM »

I think the rest of the film title refers to the "man in the silver mask", but my Spanish is not that great. Apparently this guy "Santo" was quite a popular figure in Latino wrestling history. Beats me. In any case, it's certainly an interesting car. I can't help but wonder if it was actually done by a coachbuilder (Serra, perhaps?), or if, as I said, it was done by the studio? Does anyone know more about it? In any case, another great puzzle where, as usual, the search was more than half the fun!