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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2011 => Topic started by: Wendax on May 07, 2011, 04:23:48 PM

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:
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