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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2021 => Topic started by: fromwien on December 05, 2020, 04:50:37 PM

Title: SOLVED: FW #44 Mean Alfa Romeo, Bernard Carlier, 1970
Post by: fromwien on December 05, 2020, 04:50:37 PM: Unusual racer...

Please identify this race car: What was it called? Who built it? Who drove it? When? Where? Engine? etc....
Title: Re: FW #44
Post by: fromwien on January 03, 2021, 10:28:37 AM: Experts?
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Post by: shamrock on January 22, 2021, 04:29:59 PM: Brabham BT 19
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Post by: fromwien on January 22, 2021, 04:34:17 PM: Not a Brabham, but partly related
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Post by: FrontMan on January 23, 2021, 01:26:13 PM: Tojeiro ?
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Post by: D-type on January 23, 2021, 02:57:39 PM: Australian built ?
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Post by: fromwien on January 23, 2021, 07:33:48 PM: Wether Tojeiro, nor Australian built
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Post by: FrontMan on January 29, 2021, 12:32:26 PM: Repco engine ?
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Post by: fromwien on January 29, 2021, 03:57:14 PM: No
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Post by: Willie McCrum on February 02, 2021, 09:52:56 AM: More in hope than anticipation....
Felday ?
Title: Re: FW #44
Post by: fromwien on February 02, 2021, 10:12:38 AM: Sorry, no
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Post by: fromwien on February 04, 2021, 05:40:10 PM: Pros?
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Post by: nicanary on February 05, 2021, 04:32:25 AM: That roll bar looks very Down Under. From New Zealand ?
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Post by: fromwien on February 05, 2021, 08:21:13 AM: Not New Zealand
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Post by: nicanary on February 05, 2021, 03:17:34 PM: I can't work out the Brabham connection. Is this an early version of the Brahma ?

PS Hold that - is this Bernard Carlier's Mean Brabham which was Alfa Romeo powered?
Title: Re: FW #44
Post by: fromwien on February 05, 2021, 04:56:23 PM: Bravo 'nicanary'! Please correct the name, tell me the year and the peculiarity of the car's Alfa engine, then the point will be yours
Title: Re: LOCKED: FW #44
Post by: nicanary on February 05, 2021, 05:12:13 PM: The Alfa engine was a turbo, I think the year was 1969, and the only name i can find for the car is Proto Carlier.
Title: Re: LOCKED: FW #44
Post by: fromwien on February 05, 2021, 05:26:39 PM: It was not a turbo-engine, add a small bit to 1969, neither 'Proto' nor 'Carlier' are part of the car's name, but you mentioned the right words in a previous answer.
Still locked
Title: Re: LOCKED: FW #44
Post by: nicanary on February 06, 2021, 05:36:30 AM: Quote from: fromwien on February 05, 2021, 05:26:39 PM
It was not a turbo-engine, add a small bit to 1969, neither 'Proto' nor 'Carlier' are part of the car's name, but you mentioned the right words in a previous answer.
Still locked

It was a supercharged engine, not turbo, I guess you think 1970, although a well-known French website claims he won the 1969 cote de Mont Saint-Aubert. I still cannot find the correct name - are you looking for Brabham-Mean ?
Title: Re: LOCKED: FW #44
Post by: fromwien on February 06, 2021, 06:20:59 AM: Supercharged Alfa-engine is correct.
Yes, he won 1969 the hillclimb on Mont Saint-Aubert. But not with the puzzle car (see picture attached)
1970 is correct
Brabham is not part of the name. Mean is correct. Followed by other word(s), usually used on racing cars to denote the engine manufacturer
Title: Re: LOCKED: FW #44
Post by: nicanary on February 06, 2021, 06:37:52 AM: I did not check my answer! That Mean in 1969 was indeed a different car.

Mean-Alfa Romeo ?

(I have been trying to find answers on French sites which are so interesting that I forget why I'm there and keep finding other stuff)
Title: Re: LOCKED: FW #44
Post by: fromwien on February 06, 2021, 01:50:53 PM: Yes, mostly the car was referred as the 'Mean Alfa Romeo' in race-programs. Correct again.
I asked for the car's builder within this puzzle. Do you think, you may find his name too?
Title: Re: LOCKED: FW #44
Post by: nicanary on February 06, 2021, 02:28:48 PM: Jacques d'Heur ?
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Post by: fromwien on February 06, 2021, 02:40:39 PM: Perfect! Congratulation! Here is you 500th point! :applause:
Title: Re: LOCKED: FW #44
Post by: nicanary on February 06, 2021, 04:49:10 PM: Quote from: fromwien on February 06, 2021, 02:40:39 PM
Perfect! Congratulation! Here is you 500th point! :applause:

Thank you. That was hard work - I haven't read French language for 51 years and I'm so bad at IT that I don't bother with Google translate.

Not long before you're a Pro. It gets a LOT harder.
Title: Re: SOLVED: FW #44 Mean Alfa Romeo, Bernard Carlier, 1970
Post by: fromwien on February 06, 2021, 06:46:03 PM: Sorry for bothering you with so many details for solving this puzzle. I know as hard it is, if somebody isn't really confident with dynamic computer- and internet-use. Trust me, I have the same problems as you.

Yes, you are right. I fear the next level... Earning points will get harder, but I will still enjoy to solve the 'Rookies- and Experts-puzzles' for myself...as a personal test,... the points are not really important for me...