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Title: Solved: Wendax 331 - Mercedes-Benz 320 Cabriolet Wendler
Post by: Wendax on September 01, 2011, 02:40:19 AM: Picture of an exhibition.

For one point, please respond and identify this car and its coachbuilder.
Title: Re: Wendax 331
Post by: Wendax on September 08, 2011, 02:54:17 AM: up
Title: Re: Wendax 331
Post by: Delorean on September 08, 2011, 07:13:24 AM: Ford?
Title: Re: Wendax 331
Post by: Wendax on September 08, 2011, 07:20:22 AM: That would have been too easy, wouldn't it?
Title: Re: Wendax 331
Post by: Delorean on September 08, 2011, 11:16:25 AM: Quote from: Wendax on September 08, 2011, 07:20:22 AM
That would have been too easy, wouldn't it?

Sometimes life shouldn't be so difficult, hey! You never knew ...

Is it German then?
Title: Re: Wendax 331
Post by: Wendax on September 08, 2011, 11:57:53 AM: Yes, it is German. :)
Title: Re: Wendax 331
Post by: Siata1 on September 11, 2011, 08:53:57 AM: Mercedes 3,2 litre Cabriolet by Wendler, Reutlingen. Reutlingen Motorschau 1949.
Title: Re: Wendax 331
Post by: SACO on September 11, 2011, 09:59:11 AM: Or Fiat 1400 by the same Wendler ?
Title: Re: Wendax 331
Post by: Wendax on September 11, 2011, 01:11:31 PM: Quote from: Siata1 on September 11, 2011, 08:53:57 AM
Mercedes 3,2 litre Cabriolet by Wendler, Reutlingen. Reutlingen Motorschau 1949.
Absolutely correct, another point for you.
Title: Wendler Mercedes 320 1949
Post by: grobmotorix on October 08, 2016, 05:29:11 AM: Who knows this car?

One point for a reasonable year the basis car and the correct coachbuilding company.
Title: Re: grob 2016.10.08 (05)
Post by: Lorenzo721 on October 08, 2016, 08:45:59 PM: Is it a postwar German re-body of a prewar car?
Title: Re: grob 2016.10.08 (05)
Post by: grobmotorix on October 09, 2016, 02:21:55 AM: Exactly!

And the coachwork was executed by a rather known company.
Title: Re: grob 2016.10.08 (05)
Post by: Lorenzo721 on October 09, 2016, 03:57:46 AM: I'll try Spohn...
Title: Re: grob 2016.10.08 (05)
Post by: grobmotorix on October 09, 2016, 04:01:37 AM: Good guess, but no...

~~Spohn~~
Title: Re: grob 2016.10.08 (05)
Post by: Lorenzo721 on October 09, 2016, 05:29:35 AM: Wendler, a Mercedes-Benz 320 which the company rebodied in 1950?
Title: Re: grob 2016.10.08 (05)
Post by: grobmotorix on October 09, 2016, 10:18:05 AM: LOCKED for you!

Wendler bodywork - yes!

Mercedes - yes!

320 - according to my source, NO

EDIT 10.10.2016: Lorenzo721 seems to have been right here!

Three guesses for you to find out the correct chassis...
Title: Re: LOCKED for Lorenzu721 / grob 2016.10.08 (05) Wendler Mercedes XXX
Post by: Lorenzo721 on October 09, 2016, 06:00:09 PM: I have it as a 320, but on closer inspection that could indeed be wrong, as the chassis appears much too short.

I'll try 230 then.
Title: Re: LOCKED for Lorenzu721 / grob 2016.10.08 (05) Wendler Mercedes XXX
Post by: grobmotorix on October 10, 2016, 01:08:09 PM: 320
230

Two more guesses...
Title: Re: LOCKED for Lorenzu721 / grob 2016.10.08 (05) Wendler Mercedes XXX
Post by: Lorenzo721 on October 10, 2016, 06:33:18 PM: 170?
Title: Re: LOCKED for Lorenzu721 / grob 2016.10.08 (05) Wendler Mercedes XXX
Post by: grobmotorix on October 11, 2016, 01:25:46 PM: Exactly!

Your point...
Title: Re: Wendler Mercedes 320 1949
Post by: grobmotorix on October 11, 2016, 01:27:30 PM: A second photo:
Title: Re: Wendler Mercedes 170V 1949
Post by: Wendax on October 12, 2016, 02:27:01 AM: Identical looks to this one: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2011-39/solved-wendax-331-mercedes-benz-320-cabriolet-wendler/
Title: Re: Wendler Mercedes 170V 1949
Post by: Lorenzo721 on October 12, 2016, 03:23:55 AM: Just as I hate mysteries, can anyone clarify if this is a 170 or a 320? There seems to be a lot of confusion about this.
Title: Re: Wendler Mercedes 320 1949
Post by: grobmotorix on October 12, 2016, 12:30:28 PM: The source was a 1949 cinema newsclip that featured some exhibits of the 1949 Reutlinger motor show in Germany.

They explicitely named it a Mercedes 170...

But when I have a look at the other puzzle I am quite sure now, that my source was wrong :P

Thank god Lorenzo721 named also the 320.

So might some administrator please merge those two puzzles?
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 331 - Mercedes-Benz 320 Cabriolet Wendler
Post by: Wendax on October 12, 2016, 12:36:11 PM: Done! :)
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 331 - Mercedes-Benz 320 Cabriolet Wendler
Post by: grobmotorix on October 12, 2016, 12:37:10 PM: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 331 - Mercedes-Benz 320 Cabriolet Wendler
Post by: Wendax on October 10, 2020, 09:11:06 AM: Kieselbach has it as a 320 built for Mr. Ernst from Hamburg, the Swiss Automobil-Revue has it as a 170 V in their 1949 article (see below). We had another Wendler 170 V convertible here: https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2019-49/wendax-2847/