Hopefully it will be back on its wheels some day.
For one point, please respond and identify this car, its builder and its engine.
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Panhard Dyna Junior?
No Panhard connection
from Germany?
Yes
Lloyd?
No
Zwickau?
No
Gutbrod?
No, much more obscure than the above mentioned
Pros, here comes a hard one
Eigenbau?
No
anything to do with Maico?
No
anything to do with any of the German microcars Thyssen-Bornemissza/Hans Rosellen covered?
No, Herr Rosellen aka Thyssen-Bornrmissza didn't mention this manufacturer online or in his books.
was this an East German small-scale manufacturer?
Yes
Was the picture sourced from ebay?
Yes
Trabant-based?
No
VW engine?
No
hmm, IFA/DKW engine?
DKW engine
From any of the eastern "Waggonbau" factories?
No
from a werkstatt?
No, from a company whose main business was not building cars. The owner was mentioned on AutoPuzzles before, in connection with another car he built.
did he build an Eigenbau?
As far as I know, all cars were meant for sale.
Arno Lindner?
No
Schubert/Hainichen?
No
Dieter Wendt maybe...
Not him
Was Arbeitsgroup Chemnitz involved?
No
was the other car a sportscar?
The other car was available as an ordinary car, but also had some racing successes.
Is this a Melkus?
No
To the Black Hole, little beauty!
Quote from: Wendax on May 01, 2013, 07:08:51 AM
No, from a company whose main business was not building cars. The owner was mentioned on AutoPuzzles before, in connection with another car he built.
Meanwhile several cars. ;)
A rear view might bring this one back into the light?
Schüler who also built this?: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=4945.0 (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=4945.0)
Not him
Schwarze?
No
any connection to Autowolf?
None that I know of
was the other car which was mentioned AP a passenger car?
As I said before, meanwhile there is more than one car at AutoPuzzles that was built by this man's companies. All were passenger cars.
were these built after the 2nd WW?
Before, during and after
I am sure the solution is very simple and I am dumb. Is there a connection to Auto Union?
I can assure you that the solution is not simple. While the prewar company is contained in the usual encyclopedias, the car production by his second company is not covered in any book as far as I know. The only website covering all cars is - surprise, surprise - autopuzzles.com. There is no direct connection with Auto Union, except for using Auto Union parts.
Hans Tautenhahn?
Aaaah!
Yes, Hans Tautenhahn was the builder. Locked for you to answer the other questions.
I found the ad. It is a HTH prototype which was said to be housed in a museum for many years. it was powered by a 200 cc DKW engine. The front was originally modeled after the Porsche 356. It had a Framo front axle.
Yes, HTH 200 is the correct answer. Two well earned points for you.
From Fahrzeugmuseum Chemnitz, clearing up the mystery of two guys with the same name!!!
"There were two Hans Tautenhahn. One lived in Zwickau and was responsible for HATAZ (HAns TAutenhahn Zwickau) cars in the 1920s. The other man lived and worked in Hartenstein and built sidecars and the small car you mentioned in the 1950s (HTH: Hans Tautenhahn Hartenstein). Our museum used to show a HATAZ car and the remains of a HTH 200. Both exhibits have since been given back to their owners and are no longer on display. Both men were not related, just shared the same name and worked in similar trades at different points in time. There is also very little information on either of them, I'm afraid"
I don't know if they were not related because:
1 Hartenstein is near Zwickau
2 The second company was called Fahrzeugbau HTH,Hans Tautenhahn Jun. This implicates that there was a Hans Tautenhahn senior, which could be our Hataz-man.
Thank you very much for that piece of information which is new to me.
This car was not build by Tautenhahn, but by one of his apprentices as part of his craftsman exam. The base car was a Framo Stromer which was converted to a four-wheel car, the DKW engine got a MZ ES 300 cylinder and the rear wings were modified Wartburg 311 front wings.