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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2018 => Topic started by: pnegyesi on October 29, 2018, 12:51:27 PM

Title: Solved: PN #1178 -- Theo Weißenberger in the Otto Schöpflin BMW 328 Eigenbau
Post by: pnegyesi on October 29, 2018, 12:51:27 PM
Please ID the builder of this racing car and the engine source for a point
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: pnegyesi on November 04, 2018, 11:12:24 AM
Experts?
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Post by: norberthanke on November 06, 2018, 02:39:14 AM
East German (former German Democratic Republic, GDR), probably one-off
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: pnegyesi on November 06, 2018, 03:21:23 AM
not from the Eastern part, but a one-off nonetheless
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: thorax on November 09, 2018, 01:43:55 PM
French?
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: pnegyesi on November 11, 2018, 02:12:33 AM
no, as I mentioned from Western Germany
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: pnegyesi on November 11, 2018, 07:23:42 AM
Professionals?
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: oko94 on November 11, 2018, 08:18:43 AM
Prewar engine ?
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: Wendax on November 11, 2018, 09:02:09 AM
Adler-based?
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: pnegyesi on November 11, 2018, 11:56:59 AM
prewar-engine, not Adler based
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: Wendax on November 11, 2018, 12:35:24 PM
Hanomag?
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: pnegyesi on November 11, 2018, 01:12:51 PM
no
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Post by: Wendax on November 11, 2018, 01:46:52 PM
BMW as usual?
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: pnegyesi on November 11, 2018, 02:47:14 PM
yes
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: Wendax on November 11, 2018, 04:18:16 PM
Otto Schöpflin 1949 in his converted BMW328?
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: pnegyesi on November 11, 2018, 11:06:03 PM
no
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: Wendax on November 12, 2018, 02:07:57 AM
Well, it looks the same car to me. Perhaps just another driver?
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: pnegyesi on November 12, 2018, 03:04:46 AM
apparently you are right, this was the Schöpflin eigenbau, but it was modified by its new owner/driver. Locked for you to find him.
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: Wendax on November 12, 2018, 12:55:18 PM
In 1949 former WW2 fighter pilot Theo Weißenberger acquired the Otto Schöpflin BMW 328 Eigenbau which he further modified. At Saarbrücken he came 5th in the 2-litre class. However his career was cut short, when, having survived the war, he was killed racing his BMW-Weissenberger Eigenbau on the first lap of the Eifelrennen at Nürburgring on June 10th, 1950.
Title: Re: PN #1178
Post by: pnegyesi on November 12, 2018, 01:06:51 PM
And another point to you
Title: Re: Solved: PN #1178 -- Theo Weißenberger in the Otto Schöpflin BMW 328 Eigenbau
Post by: Wendax on June 22, 2020, 06:53:01 AM
Otto Schöpflin 1949:
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