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What's this, who built it, when - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2019, 09:22:52 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2019, 10:53:39 AM »
Nice (the car  ;D) - European home-built ?

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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2019, 11:57:35 AM »
Home-built, yes, but not in Europe..
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2019, 01:51:21 PM »
Japanese?
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2019, 02:14:44 PM »
Not Japanese.
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2019, 02:42:33 PM »
Middle Eastern?
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2019, 06:54:32 PM »
No..
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2019, 04:15:04 AM »
USA?
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2019, 05:14:36 AM »
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2019, 04:04:51 PM »
Australia?
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2019, 05:46:43 PM »
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2019, 06:29:27 PM »
South American?
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2019, 07:02:50 AM »
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2019, 11:56:32 AM »
Europe
Japan
Middle East
Australia
USA
South America

South Africa?
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #15 on: May 26, 2019, 02:55:02 PM »
Not South African.
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #16 on: May 26, 2019, 05:43:27 PM »
New Zealand?
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #17 on: May 27, 2019, 04:24:26 AM »
No.
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #18 on: May 27, 2019, 07:40:39 AM »
Canada ?

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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #19 on: May 27, 2019, 08:24:13 AM »
No.
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #20 on: June 19, 2019, 10:31:59 AM »
Pro's?
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #21 on: June 19, 2019, 10:37:03 AM »
India’s first fibreglass car, made by Kumar Saheb Janakkumar in the late 1950s/early 60s.
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Re: NEH 5428
« Reply #22 on: June 19, 2019, 10:45:55 AM »
India’s first fibreglass car, made by Kumar Saheb Janakkumar

I thought you'd be waiting for this one!
That is indeed what it is; you forgot to answer the other question so I'll add it was made in the 1960s.
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