There's not much I know about this car — maybe you have the right idea!
Experts?
Related to Gordini?
:shakehead:
from Eastern Europe?
Yes.
Skoda inside?
To be honest: my source gives one comment in which the user assumes it's Skoda based. But I've found no confirmation for that.
I guess it's not reliable and other donors should be considered as well.
any ideas Pros?
down the BH...
from the former Czechoslovakia?
As far as I know it's from somewhere of the Ex-Soviet Union
I made some research and got some new informations about this car:
I have a year.
a name of the car (?)
the name of the designer/builder
the country where it had been built.
The country got absorbed by the Soviet Union, but is part of EU and NATO today...
Which means one of the three Baltic countries
well-investigated..
Estonia?
Yes!
(http://www.hot.ee/galerii22/aj/schleiz1v.jpg)
Auto Schleiz coupe, built in Tallin by "Tallinna Autode Remondi Katsetehase" if I understand correctly. An article was featured on it in 1976 where it says it took 5 years to build this car
Amazing! :applause:
A little more additional info would be nice though!
I still leave it in this section of the board to collect a little more info!
Quote from: pnegyesi on April 06, 2010, 06:39:39 AM
(http://www.hot.ee/galerii22/aj/schleiz1v.jpg)
Auto Schleiz coupe, built in Tallin by "Tallinna Autode Remondi Katsetehase" if I understand correctly. An article was featured on it in 1976 where it says it took 5 years to build this car
Is it possible to know the source of the article?
A true discovery for me! It is the same factory which has produced racing Estonias, but I have never heard of something like this from them...
The info I could find says it was built by Kalle Keel.
Yes that's the name I have for the designer..
Moved it to the Solveds now. Additional infos are still appreciated.
Any idea what this car was based around mechanically?
I know that two of these cars were built, probably both are alive. The mechanicals are from ZAZ.
Some say it was built around Skoda mechanicals.
Quote from: Allemano on May 05, 2010, 10:38:04 AM
Some say it was built around Skoda mechanicals.
Why do I get here an image of a man dressed in white?
Probably the Stig?
That, or Bibendum.
ARUNAS: It was published in "Tehnika ja Tootmine" --- "Maschinery and Production" - 7/1976.
2 of those were built, one was for sale a couple of years ago, the other one is rotting away in Tallinn, parked in a garden next to a Estonia 21 wreck and some other old soviet cars. It is rear engined, with ZAZ powerplant and glassfibre body. If I recall correctly, there was a capacity limit for road-going self-built cars in USSR, it was probably about 1 litre. That's why ZAZ engine had to be used, all the other passenger car engines in USSR were atleast 1,2-litres or larger. Kalle Keel was chief designer in TARK, but I think this car was more like his private project, than a prototype for the Estonia factory - it was hard to buy a car in Soviet Union, so some people decided to make their own cars. I'm not kidding.
I haven't got any articles about it so I don't know more details.
Well these are at least some very interisting new aspects, thanks! :)
As far as I know, at least one of these cars is planned to be restored in a near future, so maybe we'll be able to see its new born.
Quote from: faksta on June 20, 2010, 05:19:43 PM
As far as I know, at least one of these cars is planned to be restored in a near future, so maybe we'll be able to see its new born.
That's fantastic news! I really like the styling of this car, a very neat design, if a little dated for '76 (hey, things moved slower behind the iron curtain...) If it had been built in western europe on Fiat mechanicals it would probably be worth tens of thousands now :)
Does anybody know any other self-built cars from Estonia? I know only one example without this.
I know the Misovskij Artur, the Forum, the Ulle and the Tallinn
Quote from: jotage21 on August 01, 2011, 07:45:47 PM
I know the Misovskij Artur, the Forum, the Ulle and the Tallinn
Please PM/email me about the Ulle and Tallinn.