Author Topic: grob : Shirley Temple (really??), driving a .....??? (Read 4970 times)

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #25 on:** April 19, 2011, 04:23:17 AM »

I don't think it's a Bantam or a King Midget. The wheels, tires, cowl shape, etc., seem consistent with midget (not King) racers from the immediate pre-war and post-war period.
I suspect one of the myriad shops that built those cars was behind this one, or perhaps a hot-rod shop or customizer got his hands on a used midget and customized it.

grobmotorix · « **Reply #26 on:** April 19, 2011, 04:40:50 AM »

agreed...

That does not make it easier for me, but I don´t think it can be worth the point right now.
I hope someone will definitly know this little racer (conversion?).

Sorry Wendax, but this is the pro section $:-\$

Wendax · « **Reply #27 on:** April 19, 2011, 05:10:21 AM »

Quote from: grobmotorix on April 19, 2011, 04:40:50 AM

Sorry Wendax, but this is the pro section $:-\$

No problem, the advantage of being a pro is that you don't need any more points, isn't it?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #28 on:** April 19, 2011, 05:44:04 AM »

Now I am feeling kind of relieved.

That´s the spirit of autopuzzles - let´s wait and find the definite solution!

Wendax · « **Reply #29 on:** April 19, 2011, 05:45:57 AM »

At least then the misspelt name in the header should be corrected

grobmotorix · « **Reply #30 on:** April 19, 2011, 08:05:52 AM »

Done...

D-type · « **Reply #31 on:** January 13, 2012, 03:24:36 PM »

I'd like to know the answer to this one.

StillOutThere · « **Reply #32 on:** February 17, 2012, 10:40:51 AM »

I do recall reading somewhere that one of Shirley's brothers was quite a hot rodder and created the sheet metal for this car. Can't find that reference and do not recall any facts regarding the chassis /drivetrain.

Anton · « **Reply #33 on:** February 23, 2012, 01:13:10 PM »

Maybe an Ihle car?
They built cars like this for amusement parks.

http:www.no-links-here.html

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #34 on:** February 23, 2012, 01:33:30 PM »

Anton, to post link here is against the rules : http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=6373.0 .

Anton · « **Reply #35 on:** February 24, 2012, 01:22:57 PM »

So sorry. Not an Ihle, then?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #36 on:** February 25, 2012, 09:56:45 AM »

Don´t know it myself...

grobmotorix · « **Reply #37 on:** May 10, 2012, 03:58:58 PM »

I don´t think this will be solved...

Allemano · « **Reply #38 on:** May 11, 2012, 01:10:49 AM »

Quote from: grobmotorix on May 10, 2012, 03:58:58 PM

I don´t think this will be solved...

That's said about many puzzles before, but after a year or two somebody came with an answer...

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #39 on:** October 03, 2012, 05:39:57 AM »

Quote from: Wendax on April 19, 2011, 04:14:03 AM

She liked the small cars, it seems.

Indeed she did!

I'm no closer to a solution, but found these while searching

grobmotorix · « **Reply #40 on:** October 03, 2012, 01:34:37 PM »

RayTheRat · « **Reply #41 on:** October 15, 2012, 07:41:25 PM »

I ran across this photo and puzzle while browsing the HAMB. There's a link there.

Anyway, I think it's a 1940 American Bantam with a kustom body. The radiator grill seems identical to the one in the photo I'm attaching. Might as well give the point to Wendax and move the puzzle to Solved.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #42 on:** October 16, 2012, 03:53:15 AM »

I think you forgot the "wink"

grobmotorix · « **Reply #43 on:** October 16, 2012, 11:47:01 AM »

I´m still not convinced... $:-\$

Ray B. · « **Reply #44 on:** May 11, 2015, 04:10:08 PM »

The second picture comes from Life magazine, supposedly 1938, by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
But it didn't help me much. In 1938 Shirley Temple was 10 years old. The car could be 1938 alright. So, whether 1938 isn't the right year, whether it's not Shirley at all.

grobmotorix · « **Reply #45 on:** May 11, 2015, 04:16:47 PM »

Right you are.

Majeko · « **Reply #46 on:** May 12, 2015, 04:49:52 PM »

If the picture was taken in 1938 couldn't the driver be Carole Lombard? She did a shoot with Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life magazine in 1938

Ray B. · « **Reply #47 on:** May 13, 2015, 04:13:37 AM »

The girl in the picture looks more like her, but except in this picture from that photoshoot, where she wears special glasses for skeet shooting, I can find no picture of Carole with glasses. And this girl surely needed her glasses.
Also, Eisenstaedt, as one of Life main photographers, photographed a lot of people.

Also, too, if "Shirley Temple's hot rod" seems a phony identification, I found "Alfred Eisenstaedt 1938" on Facebook and couldn't trace this to a source. So it's just more logical, but that's all.

grobmotorix · « **Reply #48 on:** May 13, 2015, 11:46:57 AM »

The problem is that I do not know any more than you.

And what I also want to find out, is some facts about this car...

Ray B. · « **Reply #49 on:** May 14, 2015, 05:06:17 AM »

The only thing we can be reasonably sure of is that it's not Shirley Temple at all.
That caption comes from Pinterest, I believe, which is very unreliable.

That site, like its siblings, by the way, is a pain in the butt for us, as it often comes first in google searches, in place of the original and more valuable source.

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Author Topic: grob : Shirley Temple (really??), driving a .....??? (Read 4970 times)

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