Topic: The Name Chain - CLOSED

[nicanary]

Subaru Legacy

I think we have a winner.

I'm not going to argue...!

Nor am I. I really wasn't too happy with my last post (so why did you post it, they all ask?  ) as it wasn't a production car or concept car. If we used anything of an eigenbau nature this thread would never finish.

I'm fully in favour of supporting the Legacy as a winner.  I can't find another car with Legacy as part of the name. Can anyone else?

[oko94]

Well the car before the Legacy was a Coloni so according to the rules another (non-Legacy) Subaru could have been submitted but I went to bed a little bit too early !

[Allan L]

Well the car before the Legacy was a Coloni so according to the rules another (non-Legacy) Subaru could have been submitted but I went to bed a little bit too early !

Yes but it could have been an Impreza, a word only known in that context . . .

[Djetset]

I've been totally switched off from AP for a few days as been driving around mainland Europe being battered by the intense wind and rain, so very out of the latest Chain links.

So, are we still looking for another Subaru-related link? If so, I have a couple, but will go with the Monteverdi Design Subaru Leone 1600 Swingback (giving plenty to get stuck into again there  ). Oh, and photo to follow as currently in the Jura with a variable wi-fj connection!

[nicanary]

This thread appears to be heading for a messy end. My suggestion is for the OP to make a decision as to whether we continue. 

[Carnut]

Well the car before the Legacy was a Coloni so according to the rules another (non-Legacy) Subaru could have been submitted but I went to bed a little bit too early !

Yes but it could have been an Impreza, a word only known in that context . . .

Except we'd already had the Impreza...

[oko94]

This thread appears to be heading for a messy end. My suggestion is for the OP to make a decision as to whether we continue.

Hasn't Carnut been declared the winner ? Why should we continue ?

[Carnut]

This thread appears to be heading for a messy end. My suggestion is for the OP to make a decision as to whether we continue. 

Subaru Legacy

I think we have a winner.

I thought Otto had already made a decision?!

[Paul Jaray]

I think there are too many points at stake.

I' m still ready for the next car...

For 2 times I was ready to post the following car before anyone...

Otto - Any chance we can put this on hold and resume hostilities in say 12 hours?
Otherwise it's going to be the next post that wins simply because everyone this side of the pond has gone to bed.
Resuming at say midday or 1 pm Central European time would give everyone on both sides of the Atlantic the chance to resume..

It was not a rule but a request for a gentlemen's agreement. I don't think it was possible to ask other puzzlers not to play in order to ...play at a specific time! I left those 2 posts to prove I was there ready to play but I didn't, waiting for Otto's opinion...because it's still his puzzle, after all. I understand Carnut's idea but this is going too far: there are about 50 points (!) here, I think something has to be done about

However I have a couple of cars to keep it going:
Legacy Roadster, built by Classic Cars of Titchfield

[Carnut]

I'd be happy if the winner gets a small number of points - maybe 5 or 6.

This is beginning to remind me of the Oscars though..
I thought Otto had declared a winner so to carry on after that is perhaps not quite the right thing..

[Allan L]

Call in Karn Utz for an adjuication, someone.

[Wendax]

My personal feeling: a good idea went bad. Too many points, too many people interpreting the rules, things happening I don't understand, arguments winning over the fun ... I'm out. 

[pguillem]

My personal feeling: a good idea went bad. Too many points, too many people interpreting the rules, things happening I don't understand, arguments winning over the fun ... I'm out. 

I don't have much fun with the interpretation of rules. The Name Chain went unchained Frenzy, that's my feeling.  Anyway, we had the chance to see -an sometimes discover- very interesting cars.  Thanks for that.

[Djetset]

Now finally at a hotel with wi-fi and reviewing the posts I missed over the last few days.

I hate to upset the apple cart, but I noticed that the recent post #1180 (a Jensen-Healey) is a repeat of an earlier Chain post (#393)! I'm not sure if this matters, but if it does then based on the ruked the Chain should revert back to the last correct post (a Jensen GT), ruling out all the later debate about Lancias and Subarus  . And just when it all seemed to have come to an end...!

[Paul Jaray]

I'd like to understand what happened here.
Going back to reply #1188 and following, when everything was still ok:
McRae-Leda GM1
Subaru Impreza Series McRae
Subaru Sambar
Rabbit Subaru RS-3
Coloni C3B Subaru
Subaru Legacy.

Then, even if the chain can be continued with another Subaru (the Legacy is the 1st Subaru after Coloni) or at least a couple more of cars, Carnut, who posted the last car, proposed a stop because "it's going to be the next post that wins simply because everyone this side of the pond has gone to bed".
Now, I don't know why the next was going to be the last, or why in this very case there was the need for a stop, but what happened later is even more strange: I posted 2 times just to say "I was ready to continue but respect Carnut's request and I'm waiting here".
...but even if 2 days are not passed, Carnut is the winner after he proposed a stop?
Beside my 2 posts, Nicanary tried with a Porsche-Subaru (may be wrong but why do not even consider it?), then oko94 and Allan L reminded everyone that there was still a Subaru model to be used...then Djetset proposed yet another Subaru.....oh, and BTW, I proposed another Legacy, built by Classic Cars of Titchfield....and all this within the 2-days limit to end the game.

[Carnut]

Yes, I thought an overnight stop would be a good idea for reasons stated but it was a proposal - a question to Otto.  It couldn't actually be my decision.
What happened next seemed like a decision, i.e. Otto's post.
I wonder if it's best for Otto to call an end to this with no points and call it a day, since it's degenerating somewhat into a slanging match and that's not what we want on here.
I'm not sure I can actually see an end to it any other way other than that or else Otto's decision that the Subaru Legacy is the winner, unless we heed Djetset's post that my Jensen-Healey was not allowable (I'd completely lost track of what had already been posted), in which case the thread would end at the Jensen GT with Wendax the winner.
Either way I think it's time to call an end to it.

[Paul Jaray]

But why you thought (and you still think) there's nothing after your Subaru? There are dozens of other models by Subaru, at least another model named Legacy by a different maker and yet another car with Subaru in its name...of all the times this chain passed through hard times, this happened when there was really no problem, or at least I still can't see it.
It is a funny game but, like stated many times before, we can't have 50 points available in a game were some of us are playing to keep it going and have fun, and others are trying to end it and get the points and where the rules are stretched and bended ( and it's fine when it's for fun, but not so legit when it's for points).
My big question is why now...after 50 pages and hundreds of posts, we are deciding that it can't proceed or it have to stop.
My suggestion is: let's reduce drastically the number of points (1 or 2) and keep playing like this: it will never ends? And where is the problem?
(BTW: I think you Carnut and few others are the moral winner of it, since you kept it going till today!)

[Otto Puzzell]

Yes, I thought an overnight stop would be a good idea for reasons stated but it was a proposal - a question to Otto.  It couldn't actually be my decision.

I declared a winner in error - I misread the timestamp on the subsequent post to CarNut's - my eyesight has gone to heck in a handbasket.

If everyone can play nicely, we'll keep going, with the shot-clock rule still in effect. 

[oko94]

I hate to upset the apple cart, but I noticed that the recent post #1180 (a Jensen-Healey) is a repeat of an earlier Chain post (#393)! I'm not sure if this matters, but if it does then based on the ruked the Chain should revert back to the last correct post (a Jensen GT)

Otto, should we resume the chain from the Jensen GT then ?

[Carnut]

But why you thought (and you still think) there's nothing after your Subaru? There are dozens of other models by Subaru, at least another model named Legacy by a different maker and yet another car with Subaru in its name...of all the times this chain passed through hard times, this happened when there was really no problem, or at least I still can't see it.
It is a funny game but, like stated many times before, we can't have 50 points available in a game were some of us are playing to keep it going and have fun, and others are trying to end it and get the points and where the rules are stretched and bended ( and it's fine when it's for fun, but not so legit when it's for points).
My big question is why now...after 50 pages and hundreds of posts, we are deciding that it can't proceed or it have to stop.
My suggestion is: let's reduce drastically the number of points (1 or 2) and keep playing like this: it will never ends? And where is the problem?
(BTW: I think you Carnut and few others are the moral winner of it, since you kept it going till today!)

I know there's plenty of potential after my Subaru Legacy; it's just nobody posted anything and Otto took that to be the end of the Chain according to his new one-hour rule!

If we do what we've done before in the case of a double-post and go back to the one before it we are back at Wendax's Jensen GT.
I will therefore post the following car, which is what I was going to post before deciding on the Jensen-Healey, which incidentallly didn't come up on the Search, as have a number of cars which have previously been posted in The Name Chain..

So to replace my incorrectly-posted Jensen-Healey here's Jacob Jensen's concept based on a Citroen XM; I can't trace any name for it other than 'Jensen':

[oko94]

Jensen C-V8 Mark III

[Carnut]

Jensen PW

[Allan L]

Jensen PW

I hope that's not supposed to be its name!
Wouldn't have been called that, or even colloquially referred to as that when it was new.

[oko94]

Indeed, it looks like it was called 4 Litre or Four Litre.

[Carnut]

OK, well I'm not much of an Expert on such cars but I picked it up from here:

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2011-39/solved-neh-1213-jensen-pw-1946/msg171536/#msg171536

It seems to have been identified by an owner of one who called it that, which also tallied with the description of the car on the source site.
I believe it was available with other engines too (including an 8 cyl) but I guess the car I posted was a 4-litre with Austin straight 6...