Mystery Car

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Personaly I think it's a converted fairground ride as the scale looks kind of wrong, but you never know.

item: 260124336544

[inacoma]

Hi

Yes this is interesting.

There is a No. plate and the tyres look worn, but that might just be to make it look like a road car.

It is a bit of a dull paint job to have been a fairground ride though.

?

John

[Jim Janecek]

The general concensus so far on another forum in the US appears to be:

this was "made" and not "produced"
so it was probably home-made from a collection of parts and scrap metal.

the devil was in the details, according to this person :
"...look at alot of the redneck engineering and craptastic welds..."

[Triporteur]

Gang,
My friend Colin in the UK sent this to me. Any Ideas???

US ebay 260124336544 what is it?


Looks homemade to me - escaped from a merry-go-round?? Looks like it might have started out as a pile of Crosley parts ............ A  car builder with an eye like Picasso?


To: Arcane_autos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Arcane_autos] Motorhead 101 - ebay 260124336544 what is it?


Heck, this is NEXT DOOR to me!  I'll bet it's the stillborn Nash Kelvinator Mangle 250, designed to press your clothes while driving, but they had a technical problem:  they could never get the Michigan weather to settle down and the varying winds kept blowing the clothes out of the ironing roller and into the faces of motorists following too closely behind this machine.  And it looks like it's missing the sump pump that they needed to drain the water from the passenger compartment, sorta like British sportscars.......only more technically advanced - I think the Brits just drilled a hole in the floor..........
 
Ken