Game - What's this car?

[willbilly]

 

[SFFMunkee]

1930s Batmobile?

 

[confusis]

Octagonal headlights are a unique design feature - and I can't find them anywhere

Kind of looks like those have been replaced with LED units but I'm likely wrong considering the rest of the image

 

[SFFMunkee]

Octagonal headlights are a unique design feature - and I can't find them anywhere

Kind of looks like those have been replaced with LED units but I'm likely wrong considering the rest of the image

Oh shit I didn't even notice that because I was too busy trying to be funny.

1920 Cole Aero?

::EDIT:: Aero 8

 

[willbilly]

That Cole is neat! But not it (nice find btw!)

Well, here's a hint or two. There's only one left in existence, the company didn't make it to the Depression. They introduced a styling feature that was ahead of its time, but it held back sales...in fact, they took a nosedive.

EDIT: One left of this particular model, not the brand as a whole....sorry.

 

[willbilly]

Octagonal headlights are a unique design feature - and I can't find them anywhere

Kind of looks like those have been replaced with LED units but I'm likely wrong considering the rest of the image

It's likely they had the same supplier. This was the age of the Assembled Automobile, where people would start up a car company by bringing in everything including engines from third parties...pretty analogous to the computer industry (which is a shared reason for my interest in both).

They share one of the Great Lakes, although in different states.

 

[willbilly]

You know, the Smithsonian has an excellent collection of radiator badges.

 

[SFFMunkee]

You know, the Smithsonian has an excellent collection of radiator badges.

*Madly scrolling through the Smithsonian page of radiator emblems and comparing*
It's not Durant is it?
Lewis?
Ruxton?
Bay State?

Mitchell???

 

[SFFMunkee]

*Madly scrolling through the Smithsonian page of radiator emblems and comparing*
It's not Durant is it?
Lewis?
Ruxton?
Bay State?

Mitchell???

I'm going with a Mitchell - the badge seems to be closest and it's my twin brother's name...
They didn't survive the depression
They're from Wisconsin - which is on Lake Michigan (a Great Lake) but in Ohio, which shares the lake with Michigan the state..
I think that's all the major clues??

 

[willbilly]

I'm going with a Mitchell - the badge seems to be closest and it's my twin brother's name...
They didn't survive the depression
They're from Wisconsin - which is on Lake Michigan (a Great Lake) but in Ohio, which shares the lake with Michigan the state..
I think that's all the major clues??

You got it.

The Mitchell shown is actually nicknamed the "drunken" Mitchell. See, they laid back the radiator to make it look more streamlined, and people...people did not like it.

 

[confusis]

That's a new brand to me! Shame they went under, seems they were ahead of their time

 

[SFFMunkee]

 

[confusis]

I swear I came across the above car when searching for another mystery car a while back!

 

[willbilly]

So close to a 250LM. It's in Modena red though, so I'm thinking a Maserati.

Maserati Tipo 64?

 

[willbilly]

That's a new brand to me! Shame they went under, seems they were ahead of their time

Yeah! One of those things...if they had done it in say '32 or even '28 they might've stolen a march on the market.

That era is pretty interesting, though not really fo styling. There were something like 1000 car makes listed in the United States in 1920, then the market went into recession

 

[confusis]

Yeah! One of those things...if they had done it in say '32 or even '28 they might've stolen a march on the market.

That era is pretty interesting, though not really fo styling. There were something like 1000 car makes listed in the United States in 1920, then the market went into recession

A lot of experimentation in that era - at the time the industry wasn't sure how a car should be. Until the new EV era, not much changed since the 40's until the 90s, except styling and safety. The layout, expected equipment, etc, stayed much the same!

 

[SFFMunkee]

Getting colder with these Italian guesses..

 

[SFFMunkee]

Ok so it's a late 60s prototype race car, built by a couple of folk with some experience with Lotus, Marcos... The car was propelled by a 1.0L engine producing 97BHP, giving about 250BHP/tonne due to the car tipping the scales a little under 400kg.

 

[confusis]

1 litre, so definitely not American, where it's displacement or nothing

 

[rfarmer]

1 litre, so definitely not American, where it's displacement or nothing

There is no replacement for displacement.