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Rookie clearance sale - food for Experts.
If it weren't for the rear lights, I'd say NSU Sport Prinz
I follow you on that one, but I have not found any evidence that the two are related.
German?
Yes.
BMW 700?
No, not BMW-related, either.
How about you, Pros? You probably know this one, right?
I guess this is the rear-engined Wartburg 313/2 prototype.
I guess that you're not guessing ;)
Bravo! 2 points for that one, it lasted four months...
...which means you're out of the Rookie group. Congratulations! :applause:
And now you have been promoted to Expert AutoPuzzler!!!!
:grad:
Nice work!!
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Another view:
Can you identify this car?
Japanese ? Mazda ?
German?
Volkswagen
Michelotti design?
BMW?
Not BMW.
Still existing marque ?
Borgward ?
NSU?
DKW ?
Not NSU and not DKW.
Glas 1300
Not a Glas.
Did they produce more models ? Or only this one ?
They produced several models.
Hansa?
Not an Hansa.
Italian? By Savio?
German car,Italian body?
Goliath?
Quote from: Hiawatha on August 06, 2013, 02:41:04 AM
German car,Italian body?
The car is completely german, but I don't know the designer who could perhaps be Italian.
Quote from: Limo on August 06, 2013, 06:00:42 AM
Goliath?
Not a Goliath.
Neckar ?
Karmann ?
Lloyd Alexander probably designed by Frua.
Sorry for the Kate replay, I was on holiday. Not a Lloyd and not by Frua.
Wartburg ?
Ta-da!!! Locked for a guess only!
Ta-da... ;) It is a Wartburg 313-2 HS. They also made a hardtop, see attachments.
Quote from: mekubb on August 20, 2013, 11:59:14 AM
They also made a hardtop, see attachments.
And see here as well!:
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=4342.0
Well done! A nice roadster indeed, isn't it?
It should be merged with the other puzzle as the hardtop was a removable one. Four 313-2 HS have been built, one of them was crashed, but the drivetrain still exists. The other three are known to exist, one of them has been converted from the mid-engine layout to FWD Wartburg 353.
The picture in the earlier puzzle looks like a removeable hardtop now you mention it. But the rear lights are different!
I understand the convertible did not survive but at least one of the coupes did and is currently being or has recently been restored; pictures below. This has the same rear lights as the convertible but seems to be an FHC so now we have pictures of 3 different cars..
The convertible was also available in yellow but with the same driver!:
The original puzzle car is a survivor that had to be kept alive through more than 25 years of socialism. The rear lights were substituted by standard rear lights for trailers.
The car in restoration isn't a coupe either, but a roadster with hardtop, as can be seen below:
I did wonder if it was an FHC, looking at the gap where the top joined the body.
Were any of them FHCs then or were all four convertibles with hardtops?
I don't know of any FHCs. The Wartburg 313 and 312 HT were just roadsters with removable hardtops, too.
Two pictures from the times of everyday use: