A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo

Honest John Back Room » Motoring discussion
View Threaded
Fri 12 Dec 2008 15:28
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - oilrag
Created just for your entertainment . ;)

tinyurl.com/6jdjvn

Rules - No negativity or nastiness - at least appreciate the effort - even if that means leaving the thread without comment.

Clues
`In winter conditions operation in the four positions of deployment proved problematical - a strip down revealed grease on the shaft more suited perhaps, to Italy.

1)What`s going on?
2)locations
3) reveal the motoring context.
4) Caption
5) What is it?
6) Describe "the four positions of deployment"
oilrag
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 12 Dec 2008 15:58
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - Mapmaker
Sandbags suggest the trenches.
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 12 Dec 2008 16:07
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - PW
As do the clothes- only motoring link can think of is some sort of mechanical crank starter for military vehicles, but purely guessing.
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 12 Dec 2008 16:26
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - Ian (Cape Town)
Postman Pat, now retired, can spend his time and pension indulging in his Waffen SS fantasies...
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 12 Dec 2008 17:45
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - zookeeper
is it an expensive HEADLIGHT BULB change?
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 12 Dec 2008 17:51
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - zookeeper
sorry , no....what was i thinking, are you the ignition guy from the start of the end of the " wicker man" or am i drunk?
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 12 Dec 2008 17:47
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - L'escargot
1)What`s going on?


Discussion on gearchange difficulty.
2)locations


Russian Front 1941-1945
3) reveal the motoring context.


General Raus's staff car
4) Caption


"Gott in Himmel! I vish I vos back in der Italian Campaign."
5) What is it?


Gearchange shaft
6) Describe "the four positions of deployment"


1st, 2nd, 3rd and reverse gears in a 3-speed gearbox.
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 12 Dec 2008 18:28
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - gmac
4) Caption
"Gott in Himmel! I vish I vos back in der Italian Campaign."


Congratulations ! You spotted the imposter in the camp too.
A German would say die Italian Campaign :)
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 12 Dec 2008 21:02
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - Westpig
1, Thunderbird 1 won't start
2, Their HQ under the swimming pool
3, Virgil has a day job as an AA man
4, "You'd better take the shot again, this looks like an early 70's porn movie"
5, engine starter
6, ? sorry not technically minded enough
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 12 Dec 2008 21:28
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - Big Bad Dave
1) What`s going on? - Gay nativity scene
2) Location - Earls Court?
3) Reveal the motoring context. - Cecil is oiling Freddy's big end.
4) Caption - "We need more men!"
5) What is it? - Anal intruder, Mark III
6) Describe "the four positions of deployment" - In, out, wipe, holster.
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 12 Dec 2008 22:16
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - 1400ted
Ich denke, daß der Gestapo Büroschneider verrückt geworden ist, und Personal versucht, mich das ab Schalter durch Erreichen durch das Durcheinander mit dem Faß eines leichten Maschinengewehrs, ohne viel Erfolg zu befinden. Ted
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 12 Dec 2008 23:23
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - rtj70
Ted's post via Google:

"I think that the Gestapo office Schneider mad, and staff tried to switch from me by reaching through the tangle with the barrel of a light machine-gun, without much success there."

So still makes no sense...
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 12 Dec 2008 23:25
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - Pugugly
I think that the Gestapo became moved office cutter, and personnel tries, me starting from switch by reaching by the disorder with the barrel of a light machine gun, without finding much success

Babelfish
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 12 Dec 2008 23:25
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - Rattle
Imperial War Musuem in London? I got some pretty good pictures from there, stunning ones in fact.
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 12 Dec 2008 23:33
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - 1400ted
Pretty good translation...but 'office shredder gone mad' !
Ted
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Sat 13 Dec 2008 07:35
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - ifithelps
I was going to say this thread hasn't got a lot to do with motoring.

But since I understand barely a word of it, for all I know it might have.

Guten tag.
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Sat 13 Dec 2008 07:40
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - L'escargot
...... this thread hasn't got a lot to do with motoring.


3) reveal the motoring context.

General Raus's staff car!

Edited by L'escargot on 13/12/2008 at 07:41

Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Sat 13 Dec 2008 07:50
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - oilrag
Rest assured it`s a motoring puzzle - but no one has put their finger on it yet.......... ;)

Good fun though Ya?

Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Sat 13 Dec 2008 07:54
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - L'escargot
........ no one has put their finger on
it yet.......... ;)


Is that a cryptic clue?
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Sat 13 Dec 2008 07:58
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - oilrag
;)
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Sat 13 Dec 2008 08:05
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - L'escargot
Der bolt in mein Mauser K98k rifle has seized up because it's got der wrong grease on it. I'll strap it to the exhaust of mein Horch staff car to warm it up.
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Sat 13 Dec 2008 08:01
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - ifithelps
.. Rest assured it`s a motoring puzzle - but no one has put their finger on it yet.......... ;).....

The gun was made by BMW.
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Sat 13 Dec 2008 08:13
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - Pugugly
Hotchkiss made the gun thing ?

(Never mind the motoring content - we were talking of reviving the Friday evening bar thread anyway)
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Sat 13 Dec 2008 09:18
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - oilrag
"we were talking of reviving the Friday evening bar thread anyway"

Ja, Herr Oberst!. Die photographie vill be forced comply and vill be not be allowed to becommen deleted.

If der Englander ISP becommen overloaden - and kaput - ve haf vays of targett in der direct tradjectory to der HJ - photo-album-sausage-hausen- if ve haf der coodinaten-hausen.
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Sat 13 Dec 2008 09:31
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - Alby Back
Mein gehirn schmerzt..........
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Sat 13 Dec 2008 09:55
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - L'escargot
1)What`s going on?


Wermacht soldier complaining that the bolt in his rifle has seized.
2)locations


Poland, Norway, Sweden and the Eastern Front.
3) reveal the motoring context.


BMW started making rifles in Italy in addition to motorcycles in Germany.
4) Caption


BMW should never have opened a rifle factory in Italy. Italian grease is no good in cold weather.
5) What is it?


Copy of Mauser Karabiner 98 Kurz rifle made by BMW in Italy.
6) Describe "the four positions of deployment"


1. Unlock the bolt.
2. Place the cartridge in the breech.
3. Push the bolt forward and then rotate it to the right.
4. Pull the trigger.

After the problem was discovered, the working clearances of the bolt were increased to prevent seizures in cold weather.

Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Sat 13 Dec 2008 13:03
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - oilrag
;-)

The photos relation to question two may lead to new (breakthrough) lines of enquiry.

Once that relationship is established - things could be getting warmer, despite holding back a further - more detailed thumbnail image.

question two
2)locations
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 19 Dec 2008 08:10
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - oilrag
Well.. Its Friday, so here is the relaxation and have a laugh thread re-surfacing. ;)

Its a genuine motoring puzzle too, that I won`t abandon until its solved... if you wish..;)

Options
1)More clues for the puzzle?

2) Just have a laugh with the `theme`

Wishing you all a good weekend

oilrag



Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 19 Dec 2008 13:48
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - L'escargot
1)More clues for the puzzle?


Yes please.
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 19 Dec 2008 16:49
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - billy25
location and event:
Christmas in the trenches

caption:
So..try to squirt me with your tin of silly string! would you!.......take this!!
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 19 Dec 2008 21:06
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - oilrag
More clues (sorry to be so late - Christmas shopping)

OK

`Its all in hand really - between the (mentioned) finger and the other thumbnail - In fact Tom Thumb would just about be able to get a handle on it - or even a `?` - perhaps.`

`The finger and the thumb and the central `?`..... hardened grease on the shaft risking a break and loss of control`


Edited by oilrag on 19/12/2008 at 21:11

Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 19 Dec 2008 21:13
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - yorkiebar
Im not intellectual.

So I came, I saw, I went!

Carry on gentlemen.
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Fri 19 Dec 2008 21:21
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - oilrag
Yorkie! You have the tools that helped create this puzzle...

cryptic clue

Edited by oilrag on 19/12/2008 at 21:22

Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Wed 24 Dec 2008 13:13
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - oilrag
OK - here`s the end. ;)

Its a Fiat Punto heater control switch (minus knob) being held between finger and thumb - in front of a picture taken in the Albert - 1st World War Museum - in France.

tinyurl.com/9mhoqu

As usual, pics will be deleted shortly.

All the best!

oilrag
Reply | Report as offensive | Link
Sat 27 Dec 2008 13:06
A motoring quiz/puzzle fo `tinterlectual ;)+Photo - L'escargot
held between finger and thumb


Don't tease us any longer. Which finger?
;-)
Reply | Report as offensive | Link