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Title: Solved: Wendax 159 - Standard Superior Rekordwagen
Post by: Wendax on May 07, 2011, 04:23:48 PM

Not quite a Silver Arrow.

For one point, please respond and identify this car and its year of appearance.

Title: Re: Wendax 159
Post by: Wendax on May 14, 2011, 03:48:51 PM

up

Title: Re: Wendax 159
Post by: Wendax on May 21, 2011, 02:49:48 AM

and it goes
to the pros

Title: Re: Wendax 159
Post by: Allemano on May 21, 2011, 05:48:55 AM

I have seen it recently but forgot the source..

Title: Re: Wendax 159
Post by: Paul Jaray on May 21, 2011, 03:26:41 PM

If it's french I have the answer in a box...

Title: Re: Wendax 159
Post by: Wendax on May 21, 2011, 03:32:51 PM

Quote from: Paul Jaray on May 21, 2011, 03:26:41 PM

If it's french I have the answer in a box...

Be careful, the box might be from Pandora as it is not French.

Title: Re: Wendax 159
Post by: Paul Jaray on May 21, 2011, 03:46:33 PM

Few...I was going to do something stupid..thank you!

Title: Re: Wendax 159
Post by: pnegyesi on May 22, 2011, 12:49:09 AM

Is it German?

Title: Re: Wendax 159
Post by: Wendax on May 22, 2011, 03:07:56 AM

yes

Title: Re: Wendax 159
Post by: pnegyesi on May 22, 2011, 02:18:32 PM

From a major German manufacturer?

Title: Re: Wendax 159
Post by: Wendax on May 22, 2011, 04:23:43 PM

Not a major manufacturer in the sense of Mercedes-Benz, Opel etc.

Title: Re: Wendax 159
Post by: grobmotorix on May 23, 2011, 01:34:05 PM

I think it is the "Standard Superior Rekordwagen" from the 1930´s.
500ccm 2cyl. 2-stroke engine:

Title: Re: Wendax 159
Post by: Wendax on May 23, 2011, 02:14:22 PM

Yes, it is. Earn your point by telling me the year. Locked for you, of course.

Title: Re: Wendax 159
Post by: grobmotorix on May 23, 2011, 02:32:22 PM

1933, me thinks...

Title: Re: Wendax 159
Post by: Wendax on May 23, 2011, 02:39:23 PM

Yes, it is. In 1933, this Standard Superior was driven by Friedrich Meyer and Freiherr Reinhard von Koenig-Fachsenfeld in Montlhéry achieving an average of 109 km/h over the distance of 500 km.

Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 159 - Standard Superior Rekordwagen
Post by: Wendax on October 29, 2017, 01:39:57 PM

The bodywork was done by Vetter:

Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 159 - Standard Superior Rekordwagen
Post by: Wendax on May 17, 2019, 04:36:10 PM

I found a very interesting information in the DKW book by Frieder Bach. This Standard Superior record car didn't have anything to do with the Standard Superior, but was a marketing coup by the Standard factory. It was in fact the DKW-based racecar of Victor de Strasser-Silton (https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2014-43/solved-wendax-1108-silton-spezial-by-victor-de-strasser-silton/) rebodied by Vetter!

Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 159 - Standard Superior Rekordwagen
Post by: grobmotorix on May 18, 2019, 04:26:54 AM

Interesting!
To be honest I always wondered about that one
because it has nothing in commen with the Standard really.
Now I know why...  :thumbsup: