Quiz Archive
What is it ? # 45 (UPDATE)
With the last competition of the year we did everything to make life hard for you. But nothing will help. You all are so damn knowledgeable...! Fortunately we had only one competitor really coming close. He didn't listen do my non-information about a 1914 magazine. He didn't believe my enlargment URL about
the famous 1914 Russo Baltique (scale model built by Gerald Wingrove and from The Wingrove collection) and claimed: "I would say 1930-31
model A Ford. It looks like it has 19" wheels on the
back. Maybe a 34 grill shell and a home made body." In fact all wrong, yet most close to the real answer by Andrei Bogomolov:"This is GAZ-A Sport handmade in 1937 by A.I.Girel from Leningrad. It is not made from Ford but from GAZ parts, but GAZ-A was a licence built Ford-A here in USSR. But as this car is from 1937, it already has the grille of
the new generation model - GAZ-M1 (not exact, but almost a copy of the 1933 Ford. For instance GAZ-M1 grille was ifferent)." Thank you Andrei, congratulatiosn Wayne! (photo collection Nikolay Alexandrov)
EARLIER TEXT: Please, please let no one guess this last Mystery of 2002 right! We still have our hands full to work on unsolved details and loose ends of the last few weeks. In fact we are behind with sending T-shirts to winners. To name one time consuming example: last weeks 'What is it?' nr. 44 is causing us headaches, because everybody has another solution and everybody is right in a way...! So don't expect any help from us with this one. Either you know, or you don't. Or just look it up in one of the issues of Automobil 1914. First see the
enlargement to be sure ;-) and send your answer to
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before Monday 30 December 2002.
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Friday, 27 December 2002
