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Title: Solved: Wendax 1756 - Adler 1,8 Liter by FKFS
Post by: Wendax on November 09, 2015, 02:17:01 AM
Just a scale model of a car never to come.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on November 16, 2015, 02:26:19 AM
up
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on November 30, 2015, 02:02:53 AM
up again
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: oko94 on November 30, 2015, 02:54:45 AM
Proposal for a VW Beetle ?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on November 30, 2015, 03:34:05 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: barrett on November 30, 2015, 10:08:22 AM
Looks similar to some BMW studies from the 1930s...
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: oko94 on November 30, 2015, 10:28:13 AM
Made in Germany ?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on November 30, 2015, 03:43:39 PM
Quote from: barrett on November 30, 2015, 10:08:22 AM
Looks similar to some BMW studies from the 1930s...
Yes, but this time it's not a BMW.

Quote from: oko94 on November 30, 2015, 10:28:13 AM
Made in Germany ?
Yes
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 01, 2015, 12:43:47 AM
Has this car been found recently? (Within last 3 months)
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 01, 2015, 01:45:14 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: thorax on December 01, 2015, 03:57:56 AM
Emw?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 01, 2015, 03:58:56 AM
has this car been found between 2010-2014?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 01, 2015, 04:37:36 AM
Quote from: thorax on December 01, 2015, 03:57:56 AM
Emw?
No

Quote from: pnegyesi on December 01, 2015, 03:58:56 AM
has this car been found between 2010-2014?
I don't know, if it ever was lost.  :D
It is a scale model of a planned car.
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 01, 2015, 02:52:14 PM
plans for a new Hanomag?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 01, 2015, 03:06:35 PM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: D-type on December 01, 2015, 03:54:11 PM
Model of a proposed Wanderer
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 01, 2015, 04:02:44 PM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 01, 2015, 11:35:46 PM
a plan by a company to get into automobile manufacturing (a company which did not produce cars before)?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 02, 2015, 02:19:10 AM
No, a well-known manufacturer
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 02, 2015, 05:13:35 AM
Opel???
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 02, 2015, 05:14:31 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: oko94 on December 02, 2015, 05:50:48 AM
Ford ?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 02, 2015, 05:58:01 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 02, 2015, 06:15:19 AM
Porsche?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 02, 2015, 06:19:03 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 02, 2015, 06:19:36 AM
DKW?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 02, 2015, 06:49:11 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 02, 2015, 06:54:10 AM
Mercedes-Benz?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 02, 2015, 07:02:34 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: oko94 on December 02, 2015, 07:06:04 AM
Audi ?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 02, 2015, 07:07:02 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: oko94 on December 02, 2015, 07:47:02 AM
You said no to my VW Beetle guess, but is it for another VW model ?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 02, 2015, 07:55:47 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 02, 2015, 08:05:07 AM
One of the Borgward empire's brands, like Borgward?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 02, 2015, 08:41:53 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 02, 2015, 08:48:09 AM
Did this company produce cars after the 2nd WW?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 02, 2015, 08:52:50 AM
No series production of cars after WW2
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 02, 2015, 08:57:00 AM
Wanderer?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 02, 2015, 09:00:23 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 02, 2015, 09:30:52 AM
Adler?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 02, 2015, 10:34:45 AM
Yes, locked for you to have a guess at the model
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 02, 2015, 12:43:22 PM
"Adler Trumpf Junior Prototyp 1948   " - this has already been a puzzle

It seems there was another one, at least I saw a reference to a "Karmann-Adler" presented at the 1948 Hannover show. Am I right?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 02, 2015, 12:49:10 PM
No, unlocked and open for all again
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 02, 2015, 01:18:23 PM
Adler Diplomat?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 02, 2015, 02:55:52 PM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 03, 2015, 05:50:44 AM
was it made during 2nd WW?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 03, 2015, 05:55:35 AM
No, shortly before WW2
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 03, 2015, 06:43:55 AM
A successor of the Primus?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 03, 2015, 07:16:41 AM
It probably would have been a successor for Primus and Trumpf. It's name is more technical, just like the name of its big brother.  ;)
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 03, 2015, 07:34:22 AM
2 liter?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 03, 2015, 07:38:49 AM
Almost there, slightly less
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 03, 2015, 08:06:59 AM
1.9-litre?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 03, 2015, 08:08:42 AM
One more step to go ...  ;D
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: oko94 on December 03, 2015, 08:10:44 AM
1.8 liter ?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 03, 2015, 08:11:45 AM
well, it wasn't locked...
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Carnut on December 03, 2015, 08:16:30 AM
Quote from: pnegyesi on December 03, 2015, 08:11:45 AM
well, it wasn't locked...

That's beside the point; it wasn't fair.
I also saw the post and the very obvious answer but declined to jump in and steal the point.  Points are not so vital.
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: oko94 on December 03, 2015, 08:20:21 AM
OK, please give the point to pnegyesi
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 03, 2015, 08:24:17 AM
Oops, what for an uncomfortable situation!

I think I will insist on a little more information for the point then. Who designed and built this scale model of the Adler 1,8 Liter?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 03, 2015, 08:29:29 AM
Karmann?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 03, 2015, 08:30:11 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 03, 2015, 08:36:54 AM
was it a coachbuilder?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 03, 2015, 08:39:45 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 03, 2015, 08:40:53 AM
was it an Adler employee?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 03, 2015, 08:43:06 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: pnegyesi on December 03, 2015, 08:58:36 AM
oops, now it's getting interesting. A university perhaps?
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Tom_I on December 03, 2015, 09:08:44 AM
Is this the 1:5 scale model built by the FKFS Institute in Stuttgart, also known as the "Kamm-Institut"? I don't know if it was designed by Wunibald Kamm himself, but he was founder and Director of the Institute.
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Wendax on December 03, 2015, 10:25:42 AM
Exactly, a wind channel model designed by Wunibald Kamm from the FKFS institute. Well done!
Title: Re: Wendax 1756
Post by: Carnut on December 03, 2015, 11:19:15 AM
Quote from: oko94 on December 03, 2015, 08:20:21 AM
OK, please give the point to pnegyesi

The honourable choice...
Title: Solved: Wendax 2505 - Adler 1,8 Liter
Post by: Wendax on March 03, 2018, 05:18:43 AM
Some more streamline.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: norberthanke on March 04, 2018, 07:12:20 AM
French
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 04, 2018, 08:08:37 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: norberthanke on March 04, 2018, 02:44:46 PM
What a pity, front looks so much Hotchkiss. Bumpers look German
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 04, 2018, 03:39:00 PM
Follow that bumper trail!
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: norberthanke on March 04, 2018, 05:39:54 PM
Hanomag had hit and miss as well
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 05, 2018, 02:21:06 AM
Not a Hanomag
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: norberthanke on March 05, 2018, 12:01:32 PM
Only one car has been built, a prototype
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 05, 2018, 03:01:01 PM
Yes
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: norberthanke on March 05, 2018, 05:13:44 PM
Mercedes based
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 06, 2018, 02:29:42 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: norberthanke on March 06, 2018, 11:35:56 AM
pre-war
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 06, 2018, 12:24:31 PM
Yes
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: norberthanke on March 06, 2018, 01:15:41 PM
Jaray is involved
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 06, 2018, 05:18:50 PM
Not Jaray, but another famous aerodynamicist was involved.
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: norberthanke on March 07, 2018, 03:21:20 AM
Ledwinka
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 07, 2018, 06:48:19 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: norberthanke on March 07, 2018, 11:03:07 AM
von Frankenberg
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 07, 2018, 12:31:08 PM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: norberthanke on March 07, 2018, 03:31:33 PM
Freiherr von Fachsenfeld
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 07, 2018, 03:56:33 PM
Not him
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Post by: norberthanke on March 07, 2018, 04:25:14 PM
Wunibald Kamm, although this is not the Kamm-tail
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 08, 2018, 02:22:59 AM
Yes, now you only have to find the car
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: norberthanke on March 08, 2018, 02:52:55 AM
BMW
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 08, 2018, 03:01:29 AM
No
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Post by: norberthanke on March 08, 2018, 07:43:58 AM
Horch
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 08, 2018, 08:16:00 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: norberthanke on March 09, 2018, 04:25:06 AM
Adler
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 09, 2018, 06:23:46 AM
Yes, locked for you to find the model / engine size.
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: norberthanke on March 10, 2018, 05:07:06 AM
Adler on the basis of the 2,5 ltr. Autobahn from Wunibald Kamm
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 10, 2018, 06:05:58 AM
Not based on a 2,5 Liter
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: norberthanke on March 10, 2018, 12:35:18 PM
1,5 Ltr
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 10, 2018, 01:56:31 PM
No, unlocked
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: norberthanke on March 11, 2018, 05:30:05 AM
based on the Adler Autobahn, but with smaller engine
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 11, 2018, 06:33:27 AM
Related to the Adler Autobahn obviously, but not based on it as far as I know. Yes, it has a smaller engine than the 2,5 Liter.
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 17, 2018, 10:02:42 AM
Sorry, unlocked
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 24, 2018, 10:38:17 AM
up
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: D-type on March 24, 2018, 12:49:43 PM
Smaller than 2.5 litres but not 1.5 litre.  Is it  a 2 litre?
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 24, 2018, 01:21:06 PM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: luisps on March 26, 2018, 03:33:29 AM
Based in the Typ 10 Stromform with the engine of 1.645 c.c. used in the 24 hours of Le Mans?
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 26, 2018, 03:45:58 AM
Getting closer with the engine size, not actually based on a Typ 10, although a previous prototype of similar shape was built on a shortened chassis of the 2,5 Liter Typ 10.
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: targhediferro on March 26, 2018, 05:40:32 AM
Perhaps based upon a Adler Trumpf 1,7 litre?
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: norberthanke on March 26, 2018, 05:47:16 AM
Based on a Triumph Adler 1,5 Ltr.
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 26, 2018, 06:22:57 AM
Not 1,5 Liter and not 1,7 Liter. Not much left.
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: DeAutogids on March 26, 2018, 06:40:51 AM
Adler 1.8l Studie (I have as year) 1938
Title: Re: Wendax 2505
Post by: Wendax on March 26, 2018, 06:56:56 AM
Finally! And for all of you wondering where to find information about it: we had the wind tunnel model before (https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2015-44/solved-wendax-1756-adler-1-8-liter-by-fkfs/). I thought a picture of the real car was worth a puzzle of its own, but I will merge the two.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 2505 - Adler 1,8 Liter
Post by: Wendax on March 26, 2018, 06:59:22 AM
Congratulations to your 200th point, DeAutogids! It would have given you pro status some time ago. Now you have still 200 points to earn in the cosy expert world.  ;D
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 1756 - Adler 1,8 Liter by FKFS
Post by: Wendax on March 26, 2018, 03:04:59 PM
Some more pictures: