Solved TGF-77: Bmw 332 prototype, 1939

[targhediferro]

To all rookies:I decided to leave my quiz in your section for three days only.  Then, if nobody will try to guess and show to walk on the right path, I'll move them to Experts.

Can you identify this car?  Make, model and year for a point.

[targhediferro]

expert required.

[kwgibbs]

It kinda resembles the 1947 Curlew car of England?

[targhediferro]

There could be a certain resemblance, but Curlew had two doors only;  anyway, not a Curlew.

[kwgibbs]

Is it a Steyr prototype?

[kwgibbs]

I came across some information on this car ,instead of steyr,I want go with BMW 322?

[targhediferro]

It's a Bmw prototype, but I don't have 322 as model name.
Locked for you to dig a little more and to add the year.   I will check for the correct number too.

[kwgibbs]

sorry about that ,I meant to say 332, I believe it had  50 hp. was it 1939?

[targhediferro]

That's it...I have not more notice about this car that I have never heard about before I found this picture; I'd like very much to see other pictures of this prototype, so if other Puzzlers could share with us any news or photo, I'd be very happy.   A point for you.

[kwgibbs]

I thank you!

[Wendax]

Here you are:

[targhediferro]

Thank you very much; I think this project was very interesting and modern for 1939.

[Wendax]

The car was restored after WW2, but its traces are long lost.

[Allemano]

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[Allemano]

Kieselbach tells a little different story:

After WWII only one car of the BMW Type 332 was saved by BMW manager Kurt Deby. After measurement he restored the car as good as possible. After he finished he dreamed of a production of the Type 332 again. Unfortunately all production mashines were far away in Eisenach in the Sowjet zone and even the original drawings were missing.
So, at the end of the day the car remained the only one and was used by the Deby family as their daily driver.

Later Karosserie Ludwig Huber (Herreninsel/Chiemsee) salveged the car to take spare parts for a planned racing car..

Remarkable that a pic of a 2nd car appeared later showing the car with an officer of the French forces.

[Wendax]

Thanks, I forgot about that.

[targhediferro]

I suppose two different prototype cars were built; the one in the puzzle picture had "butterfly doors", while the black one had rear hanged ones. Apart from the spats, maybe missing in the puzzle car, I think that tail lines of the two cars are slightly different.  Thank you for posting these nice photos and for sharing the history.

[grobmotorix]

After WWII BMW/EMW Eisenach carried on with the development of the 332.

Unfortunately they did build the strange EMW 340´s design and not this one
(a clay study seen at the Wartburg museum´s collection some years ago):