Whaddyacallit #413 - Josef Ganz' Maikäfer prototype

Started by Ray B., September 01, 2009, 08:53:42 AM

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Ray B.



Ever seen this ?

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Ray B.

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pnegyesi


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João

It's a prototype,More precise a prototype of a well known volume family car? ;D

pnegyesi

Could this be the Bungartz Butz?

Ray B.

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Quote from: João on September 09, 2009, 08:59:58 AM
It's a prototype,More precise a prototype of a well known volume family car? ;D

If I see what you mean, you're on the right path, even if the way you put goes a little over the board. But why not have made a more precise guess? This isn't enough  for me to lock it for you.

Quote from: pnegyesi on September 09, 2009, 11:35:36 PM
Could this be the Bungartz Butz?

No, but this car is somehow related to the Butz.

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pnegyesi

This is another Josef Ganz prototype from 1931:
"Sporták Maikäfer (Broucek) z r. 1931"

Ray B.

Right. The Maikäfer (may beetle) was completed at Adler in May 1931, along Ganz ideas for a Volskswagen. And so somehow a prototype for the Volkswagen, as Joao wrote.
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João

I wrote that because  this car is the car featured in the latest PreWarCar What´s it Quizz ;D

Ray B.

I hadn't been there in a while.
Now you can answer them and get famous!
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João

 ;D Time to reply expired there,,,  :D
And I´m already jury member  ;D

Kind regards!

jotage21

A new book about this car is going to be published, I think that as it is a link to a book doesn´t have problem to show:

http://www.ganz-volkswagen.org/book.htm


pnegyesi

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The car is still around.

Photos by René Staud Studios, Leonberg

Ray B.

Are you sure that these are real photographs? They look more like computer renderings to me. Very good ones, like Dan Palatnik's.
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pnegyesi

These are real photographs of the car, comissioned by the Maikafer's current owner

Ray B.

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