Fichtel & Sachs Marbo, 98 ccm, 1949 prototype

grobmotorix · November 05, 2011, 12:00:46 PM

Who knows this car?

grobmotorix · December 03, 2011, 11:39:14 AM

Up!

grobmotorix · December 12, 2011, 12:36:58 PM

Pro´s choice...

Wendax · December 12, 2011, 01:57:53 PM

Was this the only car built by its maker?

grobmotorix · December 12, 2011, 02:04:37 PM

I think so.

I only have one name and a year...

Wendax · December 12, 2011, 02:10:17 PM

1949?

grobmotorix · December 12, 2011, 02:24:50 PM

Right!

LOCKED for 24h, if it may help...

Wendax · December 12, 2011, 02:33:50 PM

It's a cruel day today. Again I've seen it before but can't remember where. Perhaps a night's sleep might help

grobmotorix · December 12, 2011, 03:22:45 PM

You can hear the countdown. ...

But don´t worry - I do not really think anybody else will find it out until tomorrow...

grobmotorix · January 22, 2012, 01:14:19 PM

Unlocked...

Brazilian88 · January 28, 2012, 05:35:43 PM

Hanomag?

grobmotorix · January 29, 2012, 10:37:23 AM

Not a Hanomag, sorry...

grobmotorix · May 10, 2012, 03:56:57 PM

To the black hole.

kwgibbs · November 08, 2012, 09:24:11 PM

from czechoslovakia ?

Wendax · November 09, 2012, 02:32:47 AM

The license plate is a postwar German one, from Lower Saxony (BN = Britsche Zone Niedersachsen).

kwgibbs · November 09, 2012, 02:56:34 AM

is this a cycle-car?

grobmotorix · November 09, 2012, 11:58:05 AM

According to wikipedia,

QuoteCyclecars were small, generally inexpensive cars manufactured mainly between 1910 and the late 1920s

.

This is from 1949 and is fitted with a much smaller engine tha an average cyclecar of the decades before.

QuoteThe license plate is a postwar German one, from Lower Saxony (BN = Britsche Zone Niedersachsen).

The manufacturer of this car comes fom Bavaria and its former name is still quite well known.
If I understand my source correctly it wasn´t intended to be a one-off, but possibly was one, though...

Wendax · November 09, 2012, 12:18:43 PM

Are we looking for a person's name or a company name?

grobmotorix · November 09, 2012, 02:40:49 PM

QuoteAre we looking for a person's name or a company name?

I want to know the company´s name (which is quite easy to find I´m sure)

and the model name (which is definitly hard...).

Wendax · November 09, 2012, 02:45:46 PM

Did the company build cars before WW2?

grobmotorix · November 09, 2012, 02:57:30 PM

I didn´t know they´ve built cars at all, before I´ve found this photo with an explanatory text...

But you and many others definitly know the company!

Wendax · November 09, 2012, 03:09:48 PM

Löwenbräu

grobmotorix · November 09, 2012, 03:31:57 PM

No.

The vehicles you definitly know only have two wheels...

Wendax · November 09, 2012, 04:17:23 PM

So we are looking for a well-known German motorcycle manufacturer who never built cars (except for our puzzle car). Triumph (TWN)?

grobmotorix · November 09, 2012, 04:22:47 PM

They were not really a motorcycle manufacturer, but have built the most important components...

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Fichtel & Sachs Marbo, 98 ccm, 1949 prototype