Topic: SOLVED: FW #272: HAVAS Beachcomber based on DAF 44-55-66, NL

[fromwien]

Please be so kind and identify this car: Make? Type? Coachbuilder? Year? etc..

[fromwien]

Experts?

[max]

DAF Havas cabriolet 1974

[Alfa_Japan]

HAVAS Beachcomber based on DAF passenger car.

HAVAS stands for Hans van As. A former car dealer from the town of Hilversum. These conversions from DAF passenger cars to beach cars were allowed by DAF and therewith the conversions were stopped when the DAF passenger car division was sold on to Volvo in the mid nineteen seventies.

The Beachcomber was introduced in 1973.

[Alfa_Japan]

The conversions were available for the DAF models 44, 55 and 66. The puzzle car is a DAF 55 though.

[Alfa_Japan]

Herewith the advertisement from which the puzzle picture was taken.

[fromwien]

I want to award both of you with one point for the correct answer! Congratulation!

[Alfa_Japan]

I want to award both of you with one point for the correct answer! Congratulation!

Sorry to nag a bit, but you were asking "Make? Type? Coachbuilder? Year? Etc. The other participant, max, was moving in the right direction, but HAVAS in itself is incorrect as HAVAS also made the "Mermaid" based on a DAF. The lack of the model name, lack of base car information, incorrect year and missing "etc." part are essential I guess. Anyway on a different note pretty amazing that "max" was in the right direction as the HAVAS products were never available in the UK.

[Carnut]

Of course the whole game is about questions and answers and it is normal for someone to have a stab at the first part of the answer and if he's right he can then go off and look for the remaining answers armed with some knowledge.

I think fromwien would probably have locked it for max had he seen his answer before you posted yours, to give him the chance to post the rest of the answers, but he hadn't so you were of course entitled to answer in full and I think in this instance he was correct to give a point to both max and you, Alfa.

That way we should have two happy puzzlers!

[Alfa_Japan]

Of course the whole game is about questions and answers and it is normal for someone to have a stab at the first part of the answer and if he's right he can then go off and look for the remaining answers armed with some knowledge.

I think fromwien would probably have locked it for max had he seen his answer before you posted yours, to give him the chance to post the rest of the answers, but he hadn't so you were of course entitled to answer in full and I think in this instance he was correct to give a point to both max and you, Alfa.

That way we should have two happy puzzlers!

Completely agree! As said I find it astonishing for a UK puzzler to find this since it wasn't available in the UK and probably therefore completely unknown.

[Carnut]

Thank Google!
It's a worldwide thing so it's pretty irrelevant that it was never sold in the UK. I don't think many of us get puzzles by simply remembering things from the distant past!