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Solved NIC#1091 - Messenger Special (Auckland, NZ)
« on: July 13, 2019, 05:04:14 AM »
What is this car, and on what is it based?
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Re: NIC#1091
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2019, 01:10:28 PM »
Messenger Special based on parts from Ford Model T. This photo is taken in 1930.

What gave it away so quickly is you've left [sans(?)  screens, sans hood] as part of the clue. That was enough to find the scanned article, which someone had OCR/Transcribed online.
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Re: NIC#1091
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2019, 01:23:55 PM »
Quote from: bsa on July 21, 2019, 01:10:28 PM
Messenger Special based on parts from Ford Model T. This photo is taken in 1930.

What gave it away so quickly is you've left [sans(?)  screens, sans hood] as part of the clue. That was enough to find the scanned article, which someone had OCR/Transcribed online.

Yes! Well done all the same - I photographed the image from a magazine and clearly my hand was not steady enough!

The car was built in Auckland New Zealand around 1928 and was crashed in 1931, althougn it has now been rebuilt. The Model-T motor had the usual go-faster mods including ohv head.
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