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unknown in Boston Blackie, TV Series, 1951-1953 Ep. 2.11
Class: Cars, Convertible
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Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time
Comments about this vehicle
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◊ 2020-04-12 21:29 |
![[Image: maincari2.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/26849/maincari2.jpg) ![[Image: maincari3.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/26849/maincari3.jpg) ![[Image: maincari4.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/26849/maincari4.jpg) ![[Image: maincari5.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/26849/maincari5.jpg) ![[Image: caddyi3.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/26849/caddyi3.jpg) |
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◊ 2020-04-13 11:40 |
Modified 1949 Sponn Veritas. -- Last edit: 2020-04-13 11:41:30 |
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◊ 2020-04-13 12:15 |
Is there any confirmation that this is a Spohn Veritas? Lots of blogs and forums suggest various different cars as the possible basis for this creation, from a modified Crosley Super Sports/Hotshot, to a customised Muntz, then there's this article from March 2, 1969 which, what looks like to me, shows the same car, but modified in the later years, in which it's said that the body was made from Buick rooftops (??), though no mention on what it was based on (but presumably something american). -- Last edit: 2020-04-13 12:35:28 |
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◊ 2020-04-13 12:52 |
https://f10.m5post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=872290 Are you in mind of this, there were several “Veritas” cars from Germany in the late 40s/early 50s, which I would have thought to be an inauspicious time to try launching a sports car, but still. This doesn’t seem quite right somehow. Looking at the thumbs, the car does, however, seem smaller than the main picture suggests. -- Last edit: 2020-04-13 12:58:36 |
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◊ 2020-04-13 15:13 |
Nothing more than a heuristical approach: I don't buy that Muntz-theory and the way the author tries to convince himself and everyone reading him how the mystery is finally "solved" makes me even more suspicious. Having read various texts of that sort on similar issues, I don't remember any of them that felt reliable. The movie car may look similar to a Muntz at first sight, but the longer you compare the details, the more Muntz vanishes from the list. Also, the Spohn connection is somewhat understandable, but the car doesn't look Spohn at all, if you ask me, and I sincerely doubt they'd want their name attached to the pure clumsiness seen above. Hermann Spohn Karosseriebau of Ravensburg stands for a somewhat outlandish avantgarde, but never for "Honey, I turned a bathtub upside down". In my opinion, only the Orlando Sentinel article has that certain "there may be some truth to it" vibe. And that was my contribution to this page, as I have nothing better to add. |
