Topic: Unknown cars

[D-type]

I think there's a difference between the normal puzzles typically "Can you identify this car I've found?" and the few "I don't know what this is, can anybody identify it?" questions which appear among the mainstream puzzles.  Is it worth creating a separate "Help identify this unknown car" thread rather than treating them as normal puzzles.  It will avoid the "Is it a blankety blank? - I don't know" dialogues where puzzlers forget it's an unknown.  I appreciate that to get it off the ground an admin will have to dredge through the Black Hole, Pros and Feature Writers, Pros etc and move the relevant puzzles across.   As it's no longer a puzzle as such, the original poster would be free to give any information he does know and avoid unnecessary lead-in questions.

What do people think?

[Carnut]

I'll have to think about that!
On the odd occasion I've had such a puzzle I've put it in the Pros and Feature Writers, or such questions do appear in other parts of the forum.   Maybe there really aren't that many of them to justify a whole board, but there are a lot of different headings on the site and maybe another one wouldn't do any harm.
Will see what the other Admins think.

[faksta]

It makes sense - I have a different approach when I try to guess the car and when I want to find any information about the oddity which even the poster knows little to nothing about.

[D-type]

I'll have to think about that!
On the odd occasion I've had such a puzzle I've put it in the Pros and Feature Writers, or such questions do appear in other parts of the forum.   Maybe there really aren't that many of them to justify a whole board, but there are a lot of different headings on the site and maybe another one wouldn't do any harm.
Will see what the other Admins think.

Any further thoughts?  There's a lot of them about.

[sixtee5cuda]

Isn't this thread:

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=5331.0

where you ask about Unknown Cars?

[D-type]

But many people put them up as puzzles