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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2012 => Topic started by: Wendax on February 08, 2012, 02:41:16 AM

Title: Solved: Wendax 483 - DKW Meisterklasse by Wilhelm Olfermann, Kaiserslautern
Post by: Wendax on February 08, 2012, 02:41:16 AM
Lots of windows on this car.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.
Title: Re: Wendax 483
Post by: Wendax on February 15, 2012, 02:16:48 AM
up
Title: Re: Wendax 483
Post by: Otto Puzzell on February 15, 2012, 04:31:50 AM
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Title: Re: Wendax 483
Post by: Wendax on February 15, 2012, 04:40:17 AM
Thank you!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Wendax 483
Post by: hugo90 on February 15, 2012, 06:07:46 PM
Wartburg?
Title: Re: Wendax 483
Post by: Wendax on February 16, 2012, 02:25:39 AM
You probably had the Wartburg Bellevue prototype in mind, but the puzzle car isn't a Wartburg.
Title: Re: Wendax 483
Post by: Wendax on February 23, 2012, 02:38:32 AM
up again
Title: Re: Wendax 483
Post by: SACO on February 23, 2012, 03:01:28 AM
Auto Union DKW 1953 ?
Title: Re: Wendax 483
Post by: Wendax on February 23, 2012, 03:08:32 AM
It is DKW-based. The year is close to what I have. But who was responsible for the bodywork?
Title: Re: Wendax 483
Post by: SACO on February 23, 2012, 03:12:25 AM
From school of coachbuilder !
Title: Re: Wendax 483
Post by: Wendax on February 23, 2012, 03:17:52 AM
Yes, from where? Locked for you.
Title: Re: Wendax 483
Post by: SACO on February 23, 2012, 04:43:01 AM
Kaiserslautern school ?
Title: Re: Wendax 483
Post by: Wendax on February 23, 2012, 06:26:00 AM
Yes, it is a  Meisterklasse rebodied by one of the master craftsmen of the Kaiserslautern school. Another point for you.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 483 - DKW with Kaiserslautern body
Post by: Wendax on February 23, 2012, 12:47:43 PM
The original 1954 letter to the editor:
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 483 - DKW with Kaiserslautern body
Post by: grobmotorix on February 23, 2012, 12:50:32 PM
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 483 - DKW Meisterklasse with Kaiserslautern body
Post by: Wendax on February 23, 2012, 12:52:15 PM
Looks like AutoPuzzles is becoming the leading online database of Kaiserslautern cars.  :D
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 483 - DKW Meisterklasse with Kaiserslautern body
Post by: SACO on February 23, 2012, 03:39:59 PM
 :D
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 483 - DKW Meisterklasse by Karosseriebaufachschule Kaiserslautern
Post by: Paul Jaray on February 23, 2012, 04:39:59 PM
Quote from: Wendax on February 23, 2012, 12:52:15 PM
Looks like AutoPuzzles is becoming the leading online database of Kaiserslautern cars.  :D
;D
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 483 - DKW Meisterklasse by Karosseriebaufachschule Kaiserslautern
Post by: Allemano on February 24, 2012, 02:10:15 AM
Quote from: Wendax on February 23, 2012, 12:47:43 PM
The original 1954 letter to the editor:
Great find!
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 483 - DKW Meisterklasse by Karosseriebaufachschule Kaiserslautern
Post by: D-type on February 25, 2012, 05:21:34 AM
I can get the gist of what's written but no more.  I don't know how to use Babelfisk etc, so could someone please translate it.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 483 - DKW Meisterklasse by Karosseriebaufachschule Kaiserslautern
Post by: Wendax on February 25, 2012, 03:46:57 PM
"An Erlkönig?

I saw this car in Heidelberg. It caught my eye mainly because the roof had green windows at the front, the sides and the rear like coaches have. In the middle of the roof a sliding roof was installed. There was no name or emblem on the car. Is it a coachbuilt body or an Erlkönig?
                                                                                     Jürgen Kühneweg from Frankfurt-Zeilsheim


It is not an Erlkönig, but custombuilt car with engine and chassis from the DKW Meisterklasse. It belongs to a teacher at the academy of coachbuilding and automotive engineering at the school for master craftsmen in Kaiserslautern.
                                                                                          The editor"


In German, a disguised prototype of a car is called Erlkönig, named after a well known poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which begins with the line "Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind" (Who is riding so late through night and wind). The English term would be development mule.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 483 - DKW Meisterklasse by Karosseriebaufachschule Kaiserslautern
Post by: D-type on February 25, 2012, 06:13:41 PM
Thanks.  That makes everything a lot clearer.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 483 - DKW Meisterklasse by Karosseriebaufachschule Kaiserslautern
Post by: pnegyesi on October 29, 2018, 12:48:38 PM
A bit more details
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 483 - DKW Meisterklasse by Karosseriebaufachschule Kaiserslautern
Post by: Wendax on October 29, 2018, 01:34:53 PM
So now we even know the builder's name: Wilhelm Olfermann. That earns you one point!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 483 - DKW Meisterklasse by Karosseriebaufachschule Kaiserslautern
Post by: pnegyesi on October 29, 2018, 02:08:15 PM
oh, thank you :)
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