Puzzle #415 - Solved! Gomolzig Taifun

[Otto Puzzell]

Know what it is?

Please, respond below and let us know the make and model designation of the car posted here.

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[Otto Puzzell]

Let's see what the pro's can do with this one...

[billtorrance9999]

Early Saab 91

[grobmotorix]

1949 Gomolzig Taifun 


This is a modified version:



http://www.antikbuch24.de/uploads/17/images/4569.jpg

[Otto Puzzell]

Yep

[Allemano]

A nice picture I think:

[Wendax]

And another one with open roof

[Wendax]

And an interior view:

[Wendax]

It even reached a magazine cover:

[Wendax]

Some more views:

[Allemano]

nice!

[grobmotorix]

I never saw the rear this detailed. Thank you!

[Wendax]

The dark one made it on the front page too:

[Wendax]

Both cars, the dark puzzle car and the light one were called Gomolzig Taifun. The light coloured two-seater is the older one, built in 1948/49. The dark four-seater was built in late 1949.

[sixtee5cuda]

Who built this vehicle, and which car is it based upon?

[sixtee5cuda]

When was the last time you saw a gullwing door, that included the windshield?

Experts?

[hermanoto]

built by Herbert Molzig, Molzig Fahrzeug -und Machinenbau, Germany, ca 1949, VW based.

[sixtee5cuda]

The car is from 1948, and based on a VW.

I have not been able to find a link between this car and "Molzig Fahrzeug und Maschinenbau".

LOCKED for a bit so hermanoto can research a different creator name for this vehicle.

[hermanoto]

it must have been Gomolzig

[sixtee5cuda]

One point awarded to hermanoto.

My information indicated this was an Espenlaub (incorrect, even with 2 sources of information).  Gomolzig worked for Espenlaub at one point, but this was his first independent project.

Being a Gomolzig creation, this is a duplicate puzzle.

[Wendax]

It is certainly not an Espenlaub, but a Gomolzig. The wrong attribution has unfortunately even found its way in a book. But that book is full of mistakes anyway, many of them gathered from the web without further source checking.

Merged.