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Title: Solved: Wendax 2231 - Zoller Grand Prix car rebodied as sports car
Post by: Wendax on April 18, 2017, 02:44:06 AM
Streamline design.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.
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Post by: Wendax on April 25, 2017, 02:16:00 AM
up
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Post by: richard cuyler on April 25, 2017, 06:44:07 AM
Is it German and with swing axles at the rear?
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Post by: Wendax on April 25, 2017, 06:45:45 AM
It is German, don't know about the rear axle, maybe I can find it out.
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Post by: D-type on April 25, 2017, 06:03:27 PM
BMW powered?
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Post by: Wendax on April 26, 2017, 02:43:14 AM
No
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Post by: D-type on April 26, 2017, 06:42:37 AM
If it isn't BMW powered, then is it DKW powered?
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Post by: Wendax on April 26, 2017, 08:46:07 AM
No
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Post by: D-type on April 27, 2017, 05:54:18 AM
Hmmmmm.  German.  Not BMW or DKW powered.  Does it have a Mercedes engine?
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Post by: Wendax on April 27, 2017, 06:22:43 AM
No
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Post by: Allan L on April 27, 2017, 06:41:59 AM
Not DKW but perhaps the power is by another member of the Auto Union
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Post by: Wendax on April 27, 2017, 07:04:39 AM
No
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Post by: D-type on April 27, 2017, 07:28:59 PM
Another Auto Union company?  Horsch powered?
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Post by: Wendax on April 28, 2017, 02:31:17 AM
No Auto Union involvement
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Post by: D-type on April 28, 2017, 10:08:32 AM
What's left?  Borgward?
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Post by: Wendax on April 28, 2017, 12:41:05 PM
Not Borgward
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Post by: Allan L on April 28, 2017, 01:22:16 PM
Opel
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Post by: Wendax on April 28, 2017, 02:35:43 PM
No
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Post by: el_monty on April 28, 2017, 02:37:08 PM
What if... it's postwar and VW-powered?
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Post by: Wendax on April 28, 2017, 02:39:07 PM
Neither nor
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Post by: D-type on April 28, 2017, 02:50:37 PM
That's a point - is it prewar or postwar?
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Post by: Wendax on April 28, 2017, 03:58:24 PM
It is prewar.
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Post by: richard cuyler on April 29, 2017, 07:19:03 AM
Is it a one-off (on a Wanderer chassis perhaps)?
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Post by: Wendax on April 29, 2017, 10:41:03 AM
It is a one-off, no Wanderer connection though.
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Post by: D-type on April 29, 2017, 04:40:22 PM
Zoller based?
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Post by: Wendax on April 29, 2017, 04:44:15 PM
Yes, just tell me who was responsible for the bodywork and the point is yours. Locked for you.
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Post by: D-type on April 29, 2017, 07:29:09 PM
Was it Gerhard Macher ?
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Post by: Wendax on April 30, 2017, 02:41:31 AM
You are right. Gerhard Macher was responsible for turning the Zoller Grand Prix car into this sports car racer. So the point is yours. What I intended to ask though was: where was the coachwork done? Any idea?
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Post by: D-type on April 30, 2017, 01:54:39 PM
The reference I have found is somewhat sketchy.  Was it built in Darmstadt by Autenrieth?
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Post by: Wendax on April 30, 2017, 03:52:31 PM
No, Autenrieth bodied the initial Grand Prix racer. One more guess before I'll reveal the coachbuilder.
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Post by: D-type on May 01, 2017, 06:42:22 PM
I haven't the faintest idea.  I see that Herbert Wimmer rebodied one of the monoposto cars so it wasn't him.
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Post by: Wendax on May 02, 2017, 02:13:44 AM
According to the auctioneer the bodywork was done by the Reichsfachschule für Karosseriebau (National school for coachbuilding).
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 2231 - Zoller Grand Prix car rebodied as sports car
Post by: Wendax on October 26, 2019, 12:30:41 PM
The car was also known as the M-Sportwagen, M obviously standing for Gerhard Macher.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 2231 - Zoller Grand Prix car rebodied as sports car
Post by: Wendax on August 22, 2021, 03:58:31 AM
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