About Tough to Crack Puzzle #105: 1954 DeSoto Adventurer II by Ghia

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This is a truly Big Fish. We spotted it from 200 yards at the Amelia Island Concours and our jaws dropped deeper with every step we came closer. You really need to see the Adventurer II in reality to get to grips with its dimensions. Or park a Jaguar XJ6 alongside to compare with this. Not too many competitors recognised the tail light of last week's 'tough to crack', but the answers were high quality. We had 5 good answers to choose from, but after some shifting we ended with two names Steve Bousfield and Luc Martens. Most important difference that shifted between man and boys is their view on who did the design... Was it Virgil Exner or Luigi Segre & Giovanni Savonuzzi from Ghia? Well according to  Virgil Exner: Visioneer: The official biography... it was creation of the two Italians. Possibly a few features were changed and/or added by Exner. An example of that seems to be the retractable rear window. Based on this we decided that the quater of an ounce more detail provided by Luk Martens would make him this week's winner. Congratulations Luk!  
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