Solved: Wendax 1818 - DKW F8 racecar by MSG Zwickau

Wendax · January 16, 2016, 02:23:45 AM

Not a yellow Dellow.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

Wendax · January 23, 2016, 04:45:44 AM

up

Wendax · January 30, 2016, 02:36:42 AM

ATTENTION!
The editors are thinking about splitting the Professional board into a junior and a senior board, so that professionals with less than 400 points can have their chance, before the sharks and cannibals will have a bite. In order to test this idea, this puzzle is restricted to puzzlers with less than 400 points until further notice.

nicanary · January 30, 2016, 03:18:06 AM

Someone listened!

DKW F5.

grobmotorix · January 30, 2016, 03:28:06 AM

Too late...

Wendax · January 30, 2016, 04:03:01 AM

Quote from: nicanary on January 30, 2016, 03:18:06 AM
Someone listened!

DKW F5.

It is based on a DKW, but not a F5, and I need some information about its creation, as it is not a standard factory car.

Locked for you.

nicanary · January 30, 2016, 06:18:13 AM

I have searched the internet for information on this car. There are a few other pictures from the an event which are featured on a blog, but nothing on the usual sites.

The only other image I can find says 1939 DKW F8 Reichsklasse cabriolet. I expect this is not what you are looking for!

Wendax · January 30, 2016, 06:32:35 AM

That better, because it is based on a DKW F8, but that's not the whole story. Still locked for you.

nicanary · January 30, 2016, 06:44:49 AM

I can't find a thing - obviously this was rebodied by someone, and it wasn't Holka.

I though it was Frits Klijn, but he was the photographer!

Unlock it please.

oko94 · January 30, 2016, 06:59:22 AM

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oko, this puzzle is restricted to puzzlers with less than 400 points.

Unlocked.

oko94 · January 30, 2016, 07:52:56 AM

Sorry, I didn't notice the new rule was applied to all your new puzzles. Gotta get some more popcorn !

nicanary · January 30, 2016, 08:09:57 AM

I will remain outside this puzzle (I saw his post!).

Wendax · January 30, 2016, 11:20:01 AM

Well, his post was heading in the right direction, but not complete...

sixtee5cuda · January 30, 2016, 11:21:52 AM

Several sites indicate it may have been built in 1949.

Wendax · January 30, 2016, 11:26:30 AM

That's correct. Now we just need to know who built it, and the puzzle is solved.

sixtee5cuda · January 30, 2016, 02:52:12 PM

Not the VEB factory in Zwickau?

Wendax · January 30, 2016, 04:07:46 PM

Let's put it this way: it was built at the factory, but not by the factory.

ropat53 · January 30, 2016, 06:13:48 PM

Jakob Lauer?

Wendax · January 31, 2016, 02:21:39 AM

No, I am looking for a group of people. I don't need their single names.

nicanary · January 31, 2016, 11:05:49 AM

On one site where it is featured there are the words MSG Zwickau - this appears to be a woman's handball team in the area! I expect they built it in their spare time.

Wendax · January 31, 2016, 04:48:33 PM

MSG Zwickau is correct. Nothing to do with young ladies running around though.

MSG stands for Motorsportgemeinschaft (motor sport community).
Four of these cars were built, but only raced in a few events in 1949.
One more point for you.

Wendax · July 13, 2023, 04:21:41 PM

A rear view:

Wendax · June 14, 2026, 04:35:52 PM

Another one in red:

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Solved: Wendax 1818 - DKW F8 racecar by MSG Zwickau