A Special Vehicle

Time for the new puzzler. Here we go.

This is a historic automotive puzzler.

A special vehicle was first produced in 1949. It was powered by a Jeep engine but then switched to using a Volkswagen engine.

It had a base price of $50,000 when it came out and now is way above $100,000.

It is never raced, but can often be found in a closed course, so to speak.

A famous sports celebrity was the creator and first sales representative for this vehicle.

What is the vehicle and who was that famous sports celebrity?

Good luck.

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One Percent Potatoes

Time for the new puzzler. This one is interesting. Here we go.

It is a little known fact, for the purposes of this puzzler, that potatoes are 99% water and only 1% potato. Or 1% dry matter, the stuff that makes a potato a potato.

So, imagine you were to take 100 pounds of potatoes and you set them out on your back porch to dry out. You leave them out in the sun. When you do this, they will start to dry out.

As they dry out, of course, the water begins to evaporate. And after a while, enough water has evaporated so that the potatoes are now 98% water.

If you were to weigh those potatoes at that moment, when they are 98% water, how much lighter would they be?