Solved: Wendax 1784 - Awtowelo BMW 351

[Wendax]

Impressive chrome grill.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

[Wendax]

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[72Must]

European , perhaps French ,obscure coachbuilder ?

[Wendax]

European, not French, no coachbuilder involved as far as I know

[72Must]

Eastern European or Western , perhaps German ?
Well known manufacturer ?

[Wendax]

That's a lot of questions for one post. Well, Christmas is coming.   
It is German, and the manufacturer is not obscure.

[72Must]

Zundapp ,prototype perhaps ? interesting it looks quite like a 49/50 Mercury

[Wendax]

Not Zündapp

[Wendax]

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[oko94]

EMW ?

[Wendax]

Very close, but at the time this car was built the brand name wasn't EMW yet.

Locked for you.

[oko94]

Must be an Awtowelo prototype circa 1949-1950 but I can't find anything about it.

[Wendax]

Awtowelo is correct. Still locked for you to find the model.
Info is not easy to find. 

[oko94]

1951 Awtowelo 351

[Wendax]

Well, couldn't be that hard either. 

It is the Awtowelo BMW 351, a prototype that never saw series production.

[Djetset]

I wonder if this related to the French Ford Vedette, because the grille and bodyshell look uncannily similar!

[Wendax]

They might have had a Vedette picture in Eisenach. 
They tried several styles to update the prewar BMW design, like the BMW 343: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=20480.msg268940#msg268940

[Wendax]

A better picture:

[Wendax]

Another picture: