When I grow up, I want to be a racing driver.
For one point, please respond and identify this car by naming its base, its builder and the year it was built.
Quote from: Wendax on April 10, 2013, 02:54:33 AM
When I grow up, I want to be a racing driver.
See the new rule (in the Humour section!)
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Caption: "I knocked this up myself you know, between sleeping and feeding. It even has four-wheel-drive. I use it to chase the pigs through the mud. So much more stimulating than just sucking my dummy all day!" (said in Stewie Griffin voice)
not sure but it looks like somme Massey Ferguson 65 in that car
Not that rural :D
Seems to be based on an Adler Trumpf, but with a Belgian Imperia like grille.
Not Adler based. If the grill is from an Imperia, I don't know, but I doubt it.
I'd say the grille is '38 Willys.
I don't know where the grill comes from. This homebuilt racer first had the grill of its technical base, but was later changed to this appearance.
It's front wheel drive and not Adler is it DKW based?
Yes
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Is it Gert Reiher's 1949 DKW Rennwagen?
I knew I've seen it before. Jakob Lauer's DKW F8-based small racecar originally built in 1944
Quote from: ropat53 on April 25, 2013, 10:20:04 PM
Is it Gert Reiher's 1949 DKW Rennwagen?
No, because it is ...
Quote from: pnegyesi on April 26, 2013, 12:32:50 AM
I knew I've seen it before. Jakob Lauer's DKW F8-based small racecar originally built in 1944
I have it as being built shortly after WW2, but you are exactly right about the car which was much modified during its life. The puzzle photo and the picture below show it in its 1948 guise.
One more point for you.
Are you sure these are the same car and not different ones built by the same man? I mean, even steering wheel is placed in a different way on them - left on the dark car and center on the light one.
According to the source which based its information on handwriiten notes of Jakob Lauer and interviews with his son it is the same car modified many times over the years. I'll PM you the link.
Quote from: pnegyesi on April 26, 2013, 12:32:50 AM
I knew I've seen it before. Jakob Lauer's DKW F8-based small racecar originally built in 1944
Another picture of it here:
The radiator grille in the puzzle picture is a "Calandre Tonneline", an aftermarket accessory by Emile Tonneline of Corbevoie, designed to fit in place of the standard grille on a Citroen Traction Avant, and perhaps made for other cars as well.
Thank you for that additional information.
A ca. 1983 photo of the later version: