Solved: Wendax 483 - DKW Meisterklasse by Wilhelm Olfermann, Kaiserslautern

[Wendax]

Lots of windows on this car.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

[Wendax]

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[Otto Puzzell]

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http://www.autopuzzles.com/

[Wendax]

Thank you! 

[hugo90]

Wartburg?

[Wendax]

You probably had the Wartburg Bellevue prototype in mind, but the puzzle car isn't a Wartburg.

[Wendax]

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[SACO]

Auto Union DKW 1953 ?

[Wendax]

It is DKW-based. The year is close to what I have. But who was responsible for the bodywork?

[SACO]

From school of coachbuilder !

[Wendax]

Yes, from where? Locked for you.

[SACO]

Kaiserslautern school ?

[Wendax]

Yes, it is a  Meisterklasse rebodied by one of the master craftsmen of the Kaiserslautern school. Another point for you.

[Wendax]

The original 1954 letter to the editor:

[grobmotorix]

 

[Wendax]

Looks like AutoPuzzles is becoming the leading online database of Kaiserslautern cars. 

[SACO]

 

[Paul Jaray]

Looks like AutoPuzzles is becoming the leading online database of Kaiserslautern cars. 

[Allemano]

The original 1954 letter to the editor:

Great find!

[D-type]

I can get the gist of what's written but no more.  I don't know how to use Babelfisk etc, so could someone please translate it.

[Wendax]

"An Erlkönig?

I saw this car in Heidelberg. It caught my eye mainly because the roof had green windows at the front, the sides and the rear like coaches have. In the middle of the roof a sliding roof was installed. There was no name or emblem on the car. Is it a coachbuilt body or an Erlkönig?
                                                                                     Jürgen Kühneweg from Frankfurt-Zeilsheim


It is not an Erlkönig, but custombuilt car with engine and chassis from the DKW Meisterklasse. It belongs to a teacher at the academy of coachbuilding and automotive engineering at the school for master craftsmen in Kaiserslautern.
                                                                                          The editor"


In German, a disguised prototype of a car is called Erlkönig, named after a well known poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which begins with the line "Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind" (Who is riding so late through night and wind). The English term would be development mule.

[D-type]

Thanks.  That makes everything a lot clearer.

[pnegyesi]

A bit more details

[Wendax]

So now we even know the builder's name: Wilhelm Olfermann. That earns you one point! 

[pnegyesi]

oh, thank you