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Monty407 - Solved: 1919 Dey electric car
« on: February 28, 2019, 02:16:31 PM »
Fellow Autopuzzlers, for a point please tell me who built this car and the approximate year.

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Re: Monty407
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2019, 05:30:38 AM »
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Re: Monty407
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2019, 06:35:23 AM »
Is it a Milburn, about 1915?

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« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2019, 07:13:50 AM »
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Re: Monty407
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2019, 07:40:04 AM »
Baker, 1918?

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Re: Monty407
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2019, 08:23:23 AM »
Baker, 1918?
No, but the year is closer. This car was not from an established marque.
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Re: Monty407
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2019, 12:39:43 PM »
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Re: Monty407
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2019, 02:11:54 PM »
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Re: Monty407
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2019, 07:07:12 AM »
Charles Steinmetz 1916?

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Re: Monty407
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2019, 07:25:17 AM »
Charles Steinmetz 1916?
Charles Steinmetz indeed appears in the puzzle image, riding in the passenger's seat! While that is not the answer (the builder was the man driving the car), I feel like giving you a lock to see if you can finish connecting the dots. targhediferro's guess of 1918 was closer to the actual date than 1916.
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Re: Monty407
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2019, 08:16:09 AM »
Charles Steinmetz indeed appears in the puzzle image, riding in the passenger's seat!

He does have a rather distinctive appearance....

I'm running out of ideas - how about a 1922 Dey Electric?  If that's nowhere near the answer, don't lock it for me.

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Re: Monty407
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2019, 08:27:36 AM »
I'm running out of ideas - how about a 1922 Dey Electric?  If that's nowhere near the answer, don't lock it for me.

Yes, it's a Dey! One of Harry E. Dey's experimental units, from 1919 (the image is from the January 1920 issue of Popular Science). It was an electric car with a range-extender engine. You didn't nail the date, but that's OK, IŽll consider this puzzle solved. Well done!
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