Solved: Wendax 265 - Honda X 170

Started by Wendax, July 21, 2011, 02:33:46 AM

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Wendax

This car hasn't gone through the styling department yet, I guess.

For one point, please respond and identify this car and the year it was built.

Wendax


D-type

This looks like a manufacturer's test rig for trying out the running gear for a new model.

Right Hand drive suggests Britain, Australia, South Africa - or SE Asia.
The car behind doesn't look British
No radiator visible so maybe air cooled?
Air cooled so maybe a VW engine
They made VWs in South Africa

So, is this a front-engined front wheel drive VW prototype from South Africa

The name?  Well VW used either winds or games.  This being South Africa, it would have to be the Rugby?
Duncan Rollo

The more you learn, the more you realise how little you know.

Wendax

"You know my methods, Watson", Sherlock Holmes would say. But methods are not enough, sorry.
It's neither a VW, nor does it come from South Africa.

Wendax

Thanks for front page coverage  :thumbsup:

Hubert

Very far in the background... the car could be an Aero Wyllis.  8)

So, let's say Brazil.

Wendax

Quote from: Hubert on August 01, 2011, 05:47:51 AM
Very far in the background... the car could be an Aero Wyllis.  8)

So, let's say Brazil.

Sorry, not Brazil.

I don't think it's an Aero Willys. I would go for a 1957 Ford.

Wendax


Tom_I

It has a certain 2CV look about it, but apparently it's a Honda test mule, codenamed X170, from 1959. It was the first prototype in Honda's development of four-wheeled production cars.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of information about it, but it had a 360-cc overhead cam V4 engine, air-cooled and with twin carburettors, driving the front wheels. Not many pictures either, but here's a side view.


Wendax

This perfect answer brings you another point, congratulations.