GG-15 1931 Wikov 35 Kapka streamline car

[guido66]

1 point is yours if you name this car...

[Octavia]

That will be a 1931 WIKOV 1.5 litre streamline saloon

[guido66]

I found it as a 1931 Wikov 35 Kapka. The point is yours 

[ftg3plus4]

I've seen it under the one name (streamline saloon) in a book, and as a Type 35 prototype elsewhere.

I also saw it on a Czech (?) language site which I had Google translate, and "Kapka" (or whatever it was called there) translated to English as "blob"!

Very interesting-looking car, especially for as early as 1931. If it still existed (which I'm guessing it doesn't) it's one I'd definitely want to see for real or at least in a high-quality color photo.

Here's another view not so commonly seen:

[grobmotorix]

Here´s an original 1930/31 magazine scan:

[Wendax]

A leaflet:

[ftg3plus4]

I was wrong... apparently it does still exist.

[Wendax]

It is a replica.

[oko94]

"Kapka" (or whatever it was called there) translated to English as "blob"!

"Kapka" means "drop" (as in "teardrop").

[ftg3plus4]

It is a replica.

Oh. 

[Wendax]

A historic side view:

[pnegyesi]

Let's just mention Lubomír Pešák here, owner of the Veteran Arena museum in the Czech city of Olomouc, who built the replica using an original Wikov 35 chassis and factory drawings.

[grobmotorix]

 

[ftg3plus4]

Does anyone have any information about how many were built, or why the ones that were built no longer exist?

[Wendax]

Kieselbach states in his book that six were built, but Tucek lists only 5:
- the 1931 prototype(license plate PIV 453) pictured above,
- two cars built in 1932 with a modified front and headlights outside the front wings (see picture below),
- another car in 1932 like the other 1932 cars, but dark-coloured and without rear spats,
- one last in 1933 built on a Wikov 40 chassis.

The car in Pal's post might be #5.

[pnegyesi]

According to Jiří Kohlíček's excellent three-volume book on Wikov there were 4 or 5 built - the last one may have been the 1st which have been totally rebuilt later.

[Wendax]

I held Jiří Kohlíček's excellent three-volume book in my hands when I was in Prague this summer, a fascinating book, but I decided to buy just the small Wikov book by Marian Suman-Hreblay because of the price (14 instead of 140 €).