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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2015 => Topic started by: Wendax on May 15, 2015, 02:30:20 AM

Title: Solved: Wendax 1594 - Kleinwagen by Max Reisch
Post by: Wendax on May 15, 2015, 02:30:20 AM
Another project that never materialized.

For one point, please respond and identify its creator.
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: Wendax on May 22, 2015, 02:32:30 AM
up
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: richard cuyler on May 24, 2015, 01:44:53 PM
Proposed Lloyd?
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: Wendax on May 24, 2015, 03:34:43 PM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: richard cuyler on May 25, 2015, 02:02:17 PM
Is it German East or West?
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: Wendax on May 25, 2015, 02:57:30 PM
Neither nor
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: richard cuyler on May 26, 2015, 07:25:16 AM
Looks Continental European - is it?
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: Wendax on May 26, 2015, 07:55:54 AM
Yes
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: Wendax on June 02, 2015, 02:47:02 AM
up again
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: oko94 on June 02, 2015, 03:04:48 AM
French ?
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: Wendax on June 02, 2015, 03:06:46 AM
No
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Post by: oko94 on June 02, 2015, 03:10:01 AM
From Eastern Europe ?
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: Wendax on June 02, 2015, 03:12:38 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: oko94 on June 02, 2015, 03:16:34 AM
Italian ?
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: Wendax on June 02, 2015, 03:20:49 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: 4popoid on June 02, 2015, 03:33:24 AM
Austrian?
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: Wendax on June 02, 2015, 03:34:45 AM
Yes
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: oko94 on June 02, 2015, 03:36:42 AM
Steyr ?
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: 4popoid on June 02, 2015, 03:49:53 AM
A never built proposal by an individual, not a company/manufacturer?
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: Wendax on June 02, 2015, 05:38:31 AM
Quote from: oko94 on June 02, 2015, 03:36:42 AM
Steyr ?
No

Quote from: 4popoid on June 02, 2015, 03:49:53 AM
A never built proposal by an individual, not a company/manufacturer?
Yes, but the individual is not totally obscure. He was mentioned at AP before.
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: oko94 on June 02, 2015, 05:50:54 AM
Smythe ?
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: Wendax on June 02, 2015, 06:00:26 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: oko94 on June 02, 2015, 07:29:55 AM
Czerny ?
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: Wendax on June 02, 2015, 07:48:28 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: oko94 on June 02, 2015, 12:42:09 PM
Did the other car(s) created by this guy have a rear engine too ?
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: Wendax on June 02, 2015, 01:24:14 PM
I only know of one other car that he designed from scratch, and of that I don't know where the engine was supposed to be.
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: 4popoid on June 03, 2015, 01:33:37 AM
To recap: We are looking for the author of a proposal drawing for an unbuilt Austrian automobile who was unconnected with an automobile manufacturer, but was not unknown in the automotive world in that he has been previously mentioned on AP.  In my opinion the drawing shown really doesn't look like one produced by an automobile designer, but rather a drawing by an engineer, and more specifically a structural engineer or perhaps an architect. 

After a good deal of research I have come across an individual, mentioned twice on AP, who was Austrian, trained as an engineer and architect, a motorcycle racer, and became a well known motor vehicle traveler to numerous exotic destinations.  I have been unable to confirm that he ever designed an automobile(s) but everything else seems to fit the profile requirements.  So was the author of the puzzle proposal Max Reisch?
Title: Re: Wendax 1594
Post by: Wendax on June 03, 2015, 02:44:08 AM
Now that's a very fine sleuthing. A well-earned point for you.
It is a microcar conceived by Max Reisch during 1952/54.