Author Topic: Autopuzzle without an answer (Read 15005 times)

GTO48 · « **on:** February 26, 2007, 08:12:57 PM »

This will be a puzzle of a different sort. One where you tell me the answer because I don't know it. A while back I saw what I remember to be an Austin Healey that had a near mirror image of a 1955 Chevrolet front end. Fenders, grill, parklights etc. The whole front looked just like a '55 Chevy. For the life of me, I can't remember what the car was. I'm thinking that we can maybe get an ID point here since even Karn didn't know the answer when I asked.

It could be an Austin Healey, or maybe some other European two seater. I can't remember. What I do remember is that 1954 was the model year.

First one to post a pic of a european sports car that has all the features of a '55 Chevy front end gets it!
For reference only... Not that you need it, I'm posting a pic of a '55 Chevrolet.

porridgehead · « **Reply #1 on:** February 26, 2007, 08:59:07 PM »

Auto Union 1000Sp?

GTO48 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 26, 2007, 09:30:46 PM »

Not the auto union...

The one I'm thinking of had the "eyebrow" body line down the fender, same egg crate grill, half moon park lights, and the bumper was nearly spot on too. It was so close, that I thought when I saw it that Chevrolet might have stolen the design for the '55 from this car.

GTO48 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 05, 2007, 02:00:48 AM »

bump

Allan L · « **Reply #4 on:** March 05, 2007, 03:55:52 AM »

An altogether more useful car was the Austin-Healey 3000 which a friend fitted with a Chevrolet V8 engine.
The Chev engine is lighter than the BMC C series, has 50% more displacement and probably more horesepower per cc.

He said it made every other car feel as it it were powered by a wound-up rubber band

SeaLion · « **Reply #5 on:** March 06, 2007, 04:23:27 PM »

Could it be a Swallow Doretti perhaps?

GTO48 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 07, 2007, 02:30:20 AM »

SeaLion · « **Reply #7 on:** March 07, 2007, 07:28:38 PM »

Talbot Lago T26 Grand Sport:

Salmson 2300S:

Peerless GT:

Austin-Healey Sprite Mk2:

Alvis-Healey G Type:

Grégoire (Chapron):

Ford/Facel/Simca Comète:

Fiat 1100 TV Transformabile:

Ferrari 166 Barchetta:

Edwards (USA):

porridgehead · « **Reply #8 on:** March 07, 2007, 10:18:40 PM »

Ooooo... the Edwards... that's always a great Autopuzzle. Looks like it could be so many things that it isn't.

Allan L · « **Reply #9 on:** March 08, 2007, 03:38:23 AM »

Quote from: porridgehead on March 07, 2007, 10:18:40 PM

Ooooo... the Edwards... that's always a great Autopuzzle. Looks like it could be so many things that it isn't.

And I thought Edwards was an Air Force base

GRAYWOLF · « **Reply #10 on:** March 08, 2007, 09:33:23 AM »

I thought he played Joker (or whatever Maverick's sidekick's name was) in Top Gun! (or maybe he ran for VP last time!)

GTO48 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 09, 2007, 12:10:32 AM »

Quote from: GRAYWOLF on March 08, 2007, 09:33:23 AM

I thought he played Joker (or whatever Maverick's sidekick's name was) in Top Gun! (or maybe he ran for VP last time!)

Maverick's sidekick was Goose...

And none of the above are what we're looking for.

pieter · « **Reply #12 on:** March 09, 2007, 02:01:33 AM »

How about this one? I know it's not 1954, and, sorry, I don't know how to post a pic (otherwise I might have contributed a few puzzles).

http://www.dyna.co.za/cars/1960_Borgward_P-100.jpg

Ultra · « **Reply #13 on:** March 09, 2007, 08:36:58 AM »

Quote from: pieter on March 09, 2007, 02:01:33 AM

How about this one? I know it's not 1954, and, sorry, I don't know how to post a pic (otherwise I might have contributed a few puzzles).

http://www.dyna.co.za/cars/1960_Borgward_P-100.jpg

If yo had posted that pic with this text:

Code: [Select]

[img]http://www.dyna.co.za/cars/1960_Borgward_P-100.jpg[/img]
This is what would have resulted:

GTO48 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 11, 2007, 04:03:25 PM »

Sorry, not the Borgward.

SeaLion is getting warm I think with the Ferarri Barchetta. I remember searching for an Austin Healey autopuzzle on this forum and saw the barchetta, and then saw the mystery car in question.

Again, this car was a near mirror image. You'll know it when you see it, and I can't for the life of me find it again.

Tifosi · « **Reply #15 on:** March 11, 2007, 08:12:11 PM »

Apparently, the '55 Chevy grille was inspired by a Ferrari...legend has it that Harley Earl liked the grille so much that he decided to incorporate it on the '55, but it wasn't popular with the public, so it was abandoned after that year. So, the Barchetta would be a logical choice...

dan

GTO48 · « **Reply #16 on:** March 12, 2007, 02:45:59 AM »

What I meant was SeaLion was getting close as far as searching. The Barchetta is not the car I'm looking for. But I ran across a barchetta site at the time I saw the car in question.

GTO48 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 03, 2007, 10:59:24 PM »

grobmotorix · « **Reply #18 on:** April 05, 2007, 02:41:23 AM »

Skoda Felicia?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Skoda_felicia_1962_front.jpg/796px-Skoda_felicia_1962_front.jpg

or maybe the Borgward Isabella convertible ?

http://autowp.ru/pictures/borgward_isabella_coupe_convertible/autowp.ru_borgward_isabella_coupe_convertible_1.jpg

the only one that´s got AH proportions and a kind of chevy snoot is the Swallow Doretti

GTO48 · « **Reply #19 on:** April 06, 2007, 02:07:08 AM »

The Skoda is probably the closest, but negative on all of the above.

SeaLion · « **Reply #20 on:** August 13, 2007, 07:49:42 AM »

Perhaps it was a Nash Healey from 1951?

SeaLion · « **Reply #21 on:** August 15, 2007, 01:45:58 AM »

Austin Healey Sprite Mk.2

Ultra · « **Reply #22 on:** August 15, 2007, 09:50:05 AM »

Quote from: SeaLion on August 15, 2007, 01:45:58 AM

Austin Healey Sprite Mk.2

This is a 1965. GTO48 remembered the car as a 1954.

Hmmm.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #23 on:** September 09, 2007, 08:14:58 AM »

Is this it?

SeaLion · « **Reply #24 on:** September 21, 2007, 10:44:35 AM »

It is not this. This is not a 1954 model:

News:

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