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Solved -PJ383- Benjamin F Harris III's 5th car
« on: March 02, 2011, 03:32:08 PM »
You think you know this car?
1 point for the builder's name
1 point for one of its owners
Enjoy!
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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2011, 07:33:27 AM »
This car is not (and was not intended to be) a replica of any kind.
The names I'm looking for are not obscure ones...

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2011, 09:09:54 AM »
The names I'm looking for are not obscure ones...

as always...

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2011, 09:20:10 AM »
The names I'm looking for are not obscure ones...

as always...
Beware of easy puzzles by Paul Jaray...  ;D

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2011, 09:32:39 AM »
Those owners? Are they well known like Royalty?

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2011, 11:19:55 AM »
Those owners? Are they well known like Royalty?
Nothing like that.
If you search for this name (the owner) in Autopuzzles, you'll have 17 results...22 for the builder.
There can be a clue in the picture if you can see it...(It's barely visible but ...who knows...)

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2011, 04:49:21 PM »
This car was featured in a trendy magazine in the 80s

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2011, 08:53:59 PM »
Liberace?

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2011, 01:14:13 AM »
If you search for this name (the owner) in Autopuzzles, you'll have 17 results...22 for the builder.
There can be a clue in the picture if you can see it...(It's barely visible but ...who knows...)
Liberace?
Nope...it was a Motor Trend Magazine.

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2011, 12:51:43 PM »
You all know these two names (famous owner, builder).
Is not easy to find a clue for a very known name...is like 'french metal building, very tall...'
C'mon you'll find it interesting...(well, I did...)
You won't have to look far away from the Automobile world...

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2011, 01:38:02 PM »
Eiffel?

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2011, 01:40:43 PM »
Yep, that was the example.
Any guess?

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2011, 02:03:59 PM »
Somebody who buys a neoclassic Stutz is also able to buy this one: was the owner Elvis Presley?

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2011, 02:48:06 AM »
Not Elvis Presley...I don't think we named him at Autopuzzles 17 times!
This man proved, beyond any doubt, that is taste for cars is refined...(and that's a big clue)
The builder selfbuilt this car and then gave it to this friend of his.

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #14 on: March 12, 2011, 04:28:17 AM »
Brooks Stevens?
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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #15 on: March 12, 2011, 04:28:56 AM »
Not him...but you are on the very right track.

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #16 on: March 12, 2011, 04:42:51 AM »
Raymond Loewy?

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #17 on: March 12, 2011, 04:59:08 AM »
Not him...but it won't take long...

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #18 on: March 12, 2011, 05:04:39 AM »
Virgil Exner?
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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #19 on: March 12, 2011, 05:06:29 AM »
Brooks Stevens
Raymond Loewy
Virgil Exner

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #20 on: March 12, 2011, 05:15:25 AM »
Bruce Meyers?
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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #21 on: March 12, 2011, 05:18:25 AM »
Brooks Stevens
Raymond Loewy
Bruce Meyers
Virgil Exner


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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #22 on: March 12, 2011, 05:26:42 AM »
Last guess for now: Curt Brubaker?
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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #23 on: March 12, 2011, 05:31:36 AM »
You are thinking too complicated...this is a name you have to know.
Curt Brubaker is not THAT known.
This man can be associated to several cars, a very strange one in particular...it's not Bill Mitchell, none of the Italian designers...

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Re: PJ - 383 - This is going to be interesting!
« Reply #24 on: March 12, 2011, 05:33:26 AM »
Could be Franco Sbarro...

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