Solved: Wendax 2600 - Cheetah

[Wendax]

Looks familiar?

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

[norberthanke]

Glas 1700 Limousine

[Wendax]

That would be too easy for AutoPuzzles, not a Glas.

[norberthanke]

South african BMW Glas derived

[Wendax]

Not a  BMW by name

[norberthanke]

Simly named "2000 SA", produced in South Africa and Rhodesia from 1968 to 1973

[Wendax]

Getting closer, not a BMW 2000 SA, but your answer contains a bit of the solution.

[norberthanke]

BMW cheetah

[Wendax]

If it wasn't rookie level, I would be more pedantic, as its correct name is not BMW Cheetah. This car from Rhodesia just went by the name of Cheetah. There ws no BMW logo on it. Anyway, the point is yours.

[Carnut]

I was waiting for you to move this one up on Thursday morning, knowing that  you always do after a week in the Rookies.  Only you didn't  but I might as well still post what I was going to post.  It looks like some further investigation is required...


I was a little surprised at your Reply #4 to Norberthanke, as this car is a Rhodesian-market BMW Cheetah, basically the South Africa-built BMW 1800/2000 SA but sold in Rhodesia in the late 1960s/early 1970s under the BMW Cheetah name.  I believe these cars were actually assembled in Rhodesia.
Below is the same picture as your puzzle photo, taken from a Rhodesian cars website.

[Carnut]

Also:

From the Bimmerin BMW Website:

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However, BMW did not start selling redesigned model in Europe, and transferred production in the Southern Africa (it was indicated by SA letters in index – Sudafrika or South Africa). In Rhodesia, BMW 1800SA and 2000SA models were sold under the name of BMW Cheetah, and quite successfully – almost twice as many cars were sold in Africa than GLAS 1700 in Germany.
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From Wikipedia (which can of course be wrong...):

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The Glas 1700 was also assembled in Rhodesia as the BMW Cheetah.[4]

4. Fighting vehicles and weapons of Rhodesia, 1965-80, P & P Publishing, 1995, page 18
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From PreWarCars site:

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BMW's Cheetah - with a cheetah or two


Andre van de Loo again, our African correspondent who continues to come up with interesting snippets from The Dark Continent. Over to him, enthusiastic as ever: "A photo recently send to me by an old school buddy and old car enthusiast, Keith Stewart, still living in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. This photo was taken at the 1969 Bulawayo Internation Trade Fair and the car is a 1969 Rhodesian assembled BMW Cheetah." (Not to be confused with the American sports car with the same name! - ed.)

"No, not all the Cheetahs were painted in spots, the car here is being introduced to the Rhdodesian public at the Trade Fair, but the cheetahs sitting on the bonnet of the car were live animals which had been hand reared and therefor very tame. This was of course a recycled Glas 1700, which saw a second live in both South Africa, as the BMW 1800 SA and Rhodesia as the Cheetah. In the sanctions hit country the Cheetah became a very popular and reliable means of transport."

"Unlike its South African counterpart, there was no means of identifying the car as a BMW. It featured plain hubcabs and had Cheetah badging only on the bodywork, the grille and steering wheel. Only the engine cover identified it as having a BMW engine. Towards the end of the Rhodesian assembly production, some 2000 cc engines were also made available. If you look closely at the photo, you may see a very much younger me sitting in the background."
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