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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2011 => Topic started by: grobmotorix on May 13, 2007, 07:14:08 AM

Title: Fritz von Opel´s Regent Coupé
Post by: grobmotorix on May 13, 2007, 07:14:08 AM
a man and "his" car:
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Post by: GRAYWOLF on May 13, 2007, 03:56:27 PM
Horch?
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Post by: grobmotorix on May 14, 2007, 01:36:21 AM
Not a Horch.
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Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 14, 2007, 12:14:31 PM
A Hispano Suiza, perhaps.
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Post by: grobmotorix on May 14, 2007, 03:03:49 PM
not spanish
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Post by: GRAYWOLF on May 14, 2007, 03:37:29 PM
German?
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Post by: grobmotorix on May 14, 2007, 03:46:26 PM
yes!
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Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 14, 2007, 03:52:39 PM
Maybach
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Post by: grobmotorix on May 15, 2007, 01:37:29 AM
Not a Maybach.
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Post by: Allan L on May 15, 2007, 06:38:25 AM
August Horch listening to his Audi?
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Post by: grobmotorix on May 15, 2007, 12:11:39 PM
No link to Auto Union.. (no DKW; Horch; Audi; Wanderer)
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Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 15, 2007, 12:21:13 PM
Steyr
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Post by: grobmotorix on May 15, 2007, 01:02:31 PM
Well, Steyr was german from 1938-194X during germany´s WWII occupation (they had to built "useful things like the RSO "Raupenschlepper Ost" in that hard times).

http://www.hanomag-schlepperseite.de/Raupenschlepper-Ost.JPG




But the car we´re looking for was far before that. Steyr was and still is an austrian company
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Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 15, 2007, 01:34:41 PM
Correction: was, and is again.
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Post by: Philbert on May 15, 2007, 05:24:09 PM
Grosser Benz spezial?
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Post by: rchirnom on May 15, 2007, 07:07:20 PM
longshot, but is it some kind of German-bodied Duesenberg?  By Spohn maybe?
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Post by: grobmotorix on May 16, 2007, 02:07:18 AM
no Mercedes, no Duesenberg. This was built in Germany completely...
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Post by: Allan L on May 16, 2007, 12:05:00 PM
Protos?
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Post by: billtorrance9999 on May 16, 2007, 12:09:35 PM
NB Hispano-Suiza is neither Spanish or Swiss, but French
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Post by: grobmotorix on May 16, 2007, 02:29:22 PM
Neither of those named...
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Post by: GRAYWOLF on May 16, 2007, 02:49:49 PM
Hannomag?
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Post by: grobmotorix on May 16, 2007, 03:08:04 PM
No Hanomag.
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Post by: otto on May 18, 2007, 04:17:49 PM
It looks like an Austro-Daimler AD8 of about 1932.  But they were made south of Vienna in Wiener-Neustadt, Austria. It also resembles a Graft und Stift SP8 also of Austria.

otto

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Post by: grobmotorix on May 19, 2007, 02:51:14 AM
Right, no car from Austria.
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Post by: Allan L on May 19, 2007, 11:43:25 AM
N.A.G.?
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Post by: grobmotorix on May 19, 2007, 12:14:18 PM
not an NAG or another Berlin-based brand.
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Post by: Allan L on May 19, 2007, 02:59:37 PM
Form Wuerttemberg?
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Post by: grobmotorix on May 19, 2007, 03:18:18 PM
Not from Baden-Württhemberg...

We still have 14 alternatives :)
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Post by: grobmotorix on July 12, 2007, 12:58:59 PM
Well, this company still belongs to GM today.

And this information is the link to the fact that not even one of those cars (Coupés,Limousine etc.) survived...
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Post by: Allan L on July 12, 2007, 01:47:24 PM
Can it be Fritz von Opel and his Regent coupé?
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Post by: grobmotorix on July 12, 2007, 06:05:53 PM
Exactely ! When GM bought Opel, all Regents produced were destroyed. Even those already sold were bought back and wrecked!

So not even one did survive...
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Post by: Wendax on February 10, 2011, 02:28:23 AM
Found two less-known pictures of this beautiful car:
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Post by: DeAutogids on February 10, 2011, 04:23:15 AM
Quote from: grobmotorix on July 12, 2007, 06:05:53 PM
Exactely ! When GM bought Opel, all Regents produced were destroyed. Even those already sold were bought back and wrecked!

So not even one did survive...

Why?
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Post by: Wendax on February 10, 2011, 04:56:19 AM
General Motors didn't want an in-house rival.
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Post by: grobmotorix on February 10, 2011, 01:53:45 PM
Thank you for the photos!

If Opel was Mercedes-Benz or Audi or BMW there would have been a replica of the Regent in the company museum.

But there´s still not even an official Opel museum...
Title: Re: Fritz von Opel´s Regent Coupé
Post by: DeAutogids on February 10, 2011, 02:49:02 PM
I understood that few Regents have been made and that they actually were never recalled but deemed not a succes?
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Post by: João on February 10, 2011, 02:55:15 PM
This one was bodied by Kruck
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Post by: Wendax on February 10, 2011, 02:59:01 PM
Quote from: DeAutogids on February 10, 2011, 02:49:02 PM
I understood that few Regents have been made and that they actually were never recalled but deemed not a succes?

Just 25 Regent built, but definitely bought back by GM.
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