Here it is, my puzzle #1000! When I started posting puzzles I wouldn't have thought that there will be so many. ;D
For one point, please respond and identify this car.
Congrats!
You're starting to catch me up..!
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Japanese?
Looks like the steering is on the left, D-type.
Perhaps Russian??
Neither Japanese nor Russian.
Italian?
No
Glas prototype?
british?
The grille looks odd like its missing something.
Did you alter it?
Quote from: WayneB on September 13, 2013, 11:49:37 AM
The grille looks odd like its missing something.
Did you alter it?
Just a little bit by deleting a tell-tale emblem, but no alterations to shape, size or colour of the grille.
It looks like a modified Fiat 2300.
Is it a proposal for a Spanish Seat version of a Fiat?
No
South America?
No
Borgward proposal?
A Hong-QI or Hung-Ch'i (Red Flag)
Perhaps a proposal for a Hansa 2400 six cylinder saloon?
The car is a modified Borgward Isabella due to a car dealer, Walter Schätzle from Oberhöchstadt, a village in Hesse, Germany.
What to do now? This topic was locked for richard cuyler when Jean Marie H answered, but I would have opened it up after richard cuyler's wrong guess. I think I will give the point to the one of these two who first answers the following questions correctly:
- When was this car built?
- Where did the headlamps come from?
- Which car did the rear styling resemble?
- Which car did Walter Schätzle build later on?
LOCKED for richard cuyler and Jean-Marie H.
Sorry Wendax, I had not seen it so I let Richard and give him the point if he answers to your questions. :huh:
Just go ahead, Jean-Marie. Richard doesn't seem to answer.
Thanks for holding this, but please carry on now, I've not a clue.
Quote from: richard cuyler on September 19, 2013, 05:47:34 AM
Thanks for holding this, but please carry on now, I've not a clue.
As I believe this is unlocked I will answer:
- When was this car built: 1963/64
- Where did the headlamps come from: Fiat 1500
- Which car did the rear styling resemble: Borgward P100
- Which car did Walter Schätzle build later on: AWS Shopper 250, Goggomobile based. He also assembled around 140 Borgwards with leftover parts between 1963 and 1967.
Quote from: ropat53 on September 19, 2013, 01:12:51 PM
As I believe this is unlocked ...
No, it is still locked for Richard and Jean-Marie. A puzzle is locked as long as it is not unlocked by the puzzle poster.
If it wasn't my 1000th puzzle, I would just call it quits and delete it right now.
One point for Jean-Marie H and we forget about the extra questions.
Thank you Wendax but if you are not satisfied for this puzzle you can not put a point to me. :)
Anyway, congratulation for your 1,000 th ! ;)
I'm really terribly sorry, I don't know how I could have been so foolish as to answer before I was certain it was unlocked.
Please forgive me, I feel awful about having ruined your 1000th puzzle.
This is one mistake I'll never repeat.
I'm truly very sorry for what I did to you.
Excuse accepted :)
Now let's move on to the other puzzles!
The unmolested picture:
A very beautiful conversion, I never could have guessed that it was a Borgward.
Congratulations for your 1,000 th and thanks for your contributions to AutoPuzzles ! I wonder how you manage to find such rarities. But for sure you have a very powerful database.
Patrick :)
It's a nice car indeed; I think that the moulding on the edge of front comes from Fiat 1800/2100, while the rectangular lights look like P-100 ones (I think they have later been used for Glas saloon too).
You are probably right. Schätzle was Borgward and Fiat dealer.
The rear view, first the original drawing by Hans-Ulrich von Mende and second the finished car: