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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2018 => Topic started by: pnegyesi on August 09, 2018, 01:58:11 PM

Title: Solved: PN #1145 -- Kyosan-go TB, 1937
Post by: pnegyesi on August 09, 2018, 01:58:11 PM
Please ID this small car for a point - brand and year are required for a point
Title: Re: PN #1145
Post by: pnegyesi on August 15, 2018, 10:49:51 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: PN #1145
Post by: richard cuyler on August 16, 2018, 07:27:47 AM
1970s Lancia pickup, photographed in 1971?  ;) ;D ;D

Is it Italian?
Title: Re: PN #1145
Post by: pnegyesi on August 16, 2018, 02:08:16 PM
no
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Post by: Skut on August 18, 2018, 05:46:09 PM
Japanese?
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Post by: pnegyesi on August 19, 2018, 09:48:40 AM
yes
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Post by: kwgibbs on August 19, 2018, 09:56:24 AM
Datsun?
Title: Re: PN #1145
Post by: pnegyesi on August 19, 2018, 10:33:48 AM
no
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Post by: kwgibbs on August 19, 2018, 10:53:05 AM
Kurogane type 95?
Title: Re: PN #1145
Post by: pnegyesi on August 19, 2018, 02:56:01 PM
no
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Post by: kwgibbs on August 19, 2018, 03:49:55 PM
was it a well-known brand?
Title: Re: PN #1145
Post by: pnegyesi on August 19, 2018, 11:12:58 PM
no
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Post by: pnegyesi on August 21, 2018, 11:39:35 PM
Professionals?
Title: Re: PN #1145
Post by: oko94 on August 22, 2018, 12:42:30 AM
1937 Kyosan-go
Title: Re: PN #1145
Post by: pnegyesi on August 22, 2018, 06:40:25 AM
Yes

"in 1931, our company successfully tested a prototype for a small half-ton truck called the Kyosan-go. The truck had a water-cooled, singlecylinder 500 cc engine.
The Kyosan Automobile Company was founded that year and sales of the Kyosan-go was started as well. Next year, in 1932, a new improved three-quarter ton truck was developed, equipped with a V-type, two cylinder 750 cc engine, The decision to mass produce it was made.
At one point, 150 kyosan-go cars were produced per month. The Kyosan Automobile Company was able to operate as an independent business. In March 1937, several automobile makers participated in a test drive up the Mt. Fuji (to the 6th stage or 2450m above the sea level). Only a modified four-wheel drive Kyosan-go reached the 6th stage, revealing its excellent performance.
Our company worked to expand its business, Due to, however, preparations for war, materials were scarce, and production became incteasingly difficult.Production stopped in August 1938. From the production start, over seven years from 1931 to 1938, 2050 cars had been produced
Title: Re: Solved: PN #1145 -- Kyosan-go, 1937
Post by: oko94 on August 22, 2018, 05:00:18 PM
Unusually I found the answer in a book rather than online. According to that source this truck has a model name : TB. It's an evolution of the original KB model made between 1932 and 1936. 1937 TB has D-shaped bonnet vents while the 1938 version has banada-shaped vents.