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Title: Solved: Wendax 1155 - Mercedes-Benz 170 Va promotional car by Ehlers
Post by: Wendax on February 06, 2014, 02:19:26 AM
I don't know whether this one has a proper name, I just want to know some characterizing facts.

For one point, please respond and tell me what this car is based on, when it was built and what it is supposed to resemble.
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: Wendax on February 13, 2014, 02:13:48 AM
up
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Post by: Majeko on February 14, 2014, 02:42:10 PM
1925 Luxor Taxi?
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Post by: Wendax on February 14, 2014, 02:45:13 PM
No on all accounts
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Post by: AlexFrance on February 16, 2014, 02:40:06 PM
It is not as old as it looks, right?
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: Wendax on February 16, 2014, 04:12:43 PM
Right
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Post by: AlexFrance on February 19, 2014, 01:31:31 PM
French base?
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: Wendax on February 19, 2014, 01:33:24 PM
No
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Post by: Wendax on February 26, 2014, 02:22:52 AM
up again
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Post by: targhediferro on February 26, 2014, 07:09:54 AM
Fiat base?
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Post by: Wendax on February 26, 2014, 07:41:03 AM
No
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Post by: sixtee5cuda on February 26, 2014, 09:18:52 AM
Built outside of the Americas?
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Post by: Wendax on February 26, 2014, 09:48:24 AM
Yes
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Post by: nicanary on February 26, 2014, 11:08:58 AM
Is this car from Asia?
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Post by: Wendax on February 26, 2014, 11:42:49 AM
No
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Post by: pnegyesi on February 28, 2014, 10:20:58 AM
from Central Europe?
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Post by: Allan L on February 28, 2014, 10:40:29 AM
My guess is that the basis is a Hindustan Ambassador and it is supposed to resemble a 1920s Prole's choice Rolls-Royce.
Built in the 1960s perhaps?
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: Wendax on February 28, 2014, 11:52:55 AM
- from Central Europe
- a less exotic base than a Hindustan
- supposed not to resemble a 1920s Rolls-Royce
- built before the 1960s

This will mainly be a guessing game, although there are some visible hints about the base.
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: pnegyesi on February 28, 2014, 02:35:37 PM
is it from Poland?
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: Wendax on February 28, 2014, 03:20:10 PM
No
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Post by: Tom_I on February 28, 2014, 05:50:27 PM
Quote from: Wendax on February 28, 2014, 11:52:55 AM
This will mainly be a guessing game, although there are some visible hints about the base.

As far as I can see, it's only the wheels that are likely to give any clue. I haven't worked out what they come from yet, but the five-stud fixing should give a hint. Also the apparent positive camber of the rear wheel makes it look like the chassis has swing axle suspension at the back.
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: Wendax on March 01, 2014, 01:13:52 AM
That's what I meant.
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: pnegyesi on March 01, 2014, 02:25:55 AM
Based on a Skoda?
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: Wendax on March 01, 2014, 05:14:03 AM
No
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Post by: pnegyesi on March 01, 2014, 05:18:00 AM
based on a czech car?
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Post by: Wendax on March 01, 2014, 05:28:12 AM
No
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Post by: pnegyesi on March 01, 2014, 07:01:44 AM
Is it based on a car from Central Europe (excluding Germany and Switzerland)?
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Post by: Wendax on March 01, 2014, 11:15:13 AM
No, it is based on a car from a Central European country you excluded.  ;)
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Post by: pnegyesi on March 01, 2014, 11:21:01 AM
so is it based on a VW Kübelwagen?
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Post by: Wendax on March 01, 2014, 11:21:43 AM
No, but on a German car
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Post by: pnegyesi on March 01, 2014, 11:28:57 AM
based on an Opel?
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Post by: Wendax on March 01, 2014, 03:11:55 PM
No
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Post by: pnegyesi on March 01, 2014, 03:27:53 PM
based on a pre-war car?
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Post by: Wendax on March 01, 2014, 03:47:45 PM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: D-type on March 01, 2014, 03:59:44 PM
Based on an Opel Rekord?
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Post by: Wendax on March 01, 2014, 05:04:06 PM
No
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Post by: Ehhxekt on March 02, 2014, 10:26:45 AM
Judging by the wheels, my guess for the donor car is a Mercedes-Benz 170 from the late forties/early fifties.
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: Wendax on March 02, 2014, 01:25:33 PM
Yes, it has a Mercedes-Benz 170 Va as base.

Locked for you to have a guess at the building date and what it is supposed to resemble.
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: Ehhxekt on March 03, 2014, 04:42:02 PM
Please unlock – maybe someone else will be able to find out what it is supposed to imitate; I'm clueless. (There is certainly an air of inauthenticity about this vehicle; it somehow looks like an incarnation of the unspecified 'old car' to me, the kind you sometimes see carrying tourists in holiday centres...) Was it built in the second half of the fifties?
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: Wendax on March 03, 2014, 04:49:09 PM
Your thoughts are correct. It was built in the second half of the fifties, 1957 to be precise.
Just have a guess at the make it is attempting. It is not far away from the source.
Still locked for one wild guess.
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: Ehhxekt on March 03, 2014, 05:40:29 PM
Would it be Maybach?
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: Wendax on March 04, 2014, 02:08:17 AM
No, even closer to the source
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Post by: Ehhxekt on March 04, 2014, 01:17:27 PM
As close as Benz?
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: Wendax on March 04, 2014, 01:21:15 PM
As close as Benz, but the other one.

Grab your point!
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Post by: Ehhxekt on March 04, 2014, 02:38:32 PM
 :)
So it is supposed to be a Mercedes by Daimler Motorengesellschaft...
Title: Re: Wendax 1155
Post by: Wendax on March 04, 2014, 03:34:30 PM
Yes, I hereby declare this puzzle solved. According to the ad I derived the picture from, it is supposed to resemble a 1910 Daimler. Hmmm....
I don't know whether it was built for a movie or whatever.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 1155 - Mercedes-Benz 170 Va rebodied to resemble a 1910 Daimler
Post by: Wendax on December 28, 2016, 03:44:04 AM
It seems that it was built for advertising purpose:
Title: Solved: Wendax 3418 - Mercedes-Benz 170 V promotional car by Ehlers
Post by: Wendax on December 24, 2020, 02:50:30 AM
A young enthusiast.

For one point, please respond and identify car and coachbuilder.
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: 727 on December 24, 2020, 10:52:08 AM
Is this a car made to look older than it's supposed to be like those artisanal Fleur De Lys cars? The tires look more modern and there's just a fake feeling I get from it, from the paint made to imitate early 1900s carvings to the skinny rear fenders and different wheel offsets on its axles...
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on December 24, 2020, 11:46:52 AM
Yes
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: 727 on December 24, 2020, 03:20:35 PM
Is it older than the 1980s?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on December 24, 2020, 03:34:03 PM
I'm quite sure although I don't have a year for it.
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: 727 on December 24, 2020, 03:42:46 PM
Made in UK?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on December 24, 2020, 04:47:28 PM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: 727 on December 24, 2020, 04:49:15 PM
Somewhere else in Europe?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on December 25, 2020, 02:29:40 AM
Yes
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on January 01, 2021, 03:51:03 AM
up
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Post by: Wendax on January 15, 2021, 01:15:02 AM
up again
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on February 15, 2021, 01:35:18 AM
Masters
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: oko94 on February 15, 2021, 01:42:39 AM
German ?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on February 15, 2021, 01:56:21 AM
Yes
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: oko94 on February 15, 2021, 03:22:35 AM
Homemade or built by a company ?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on February 15, 2021, 03:38:07 AM
Built by a coachbuilder
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: oko94 on February 15, 2021, 03:50:23 AM
Based on a German chassis ?
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Post by: Wendax on February 15, 2021, 04:06:25 AM
Yes
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Post by: oko94 on February 15, 2021, 04:14:32 AM
Mercedes-Benz ?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on February 15, 2021, 04:58:20 AM
Yes, Mercedes-Benz chassis
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: oko94 on February 15, 2021, 05:01:31 AM
W123 chassis ?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on February 15, 2021, 05:04:09 AM
No
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Post by: oko94 on February 15, 2021, 05:10:16 AM
Chassis from a commercial vehicle ?
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Post by: Wendax on February 15, 2021, 07:12:53 AM
No
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Post by: oko94 on February 15, 2021, 08:37:17 AM
Postwar chassis ?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on February 15, 2021, 09:22:11 AM
Yes
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Post by: oko94 on February 15, 2021, 09:43:06 AM
W114/W115 chassis ?
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Post by: Wendax on February 15, 2021, 09:50:19 AM
No
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Post by: oko94 on February 15, 2021, 09:52:06 AM
W110 chassis ?
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Post by: Wendax on February 15, 2021, 10:50:35 AM
No
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Post by: oko94 on February 15, 2021, 10:52:16 AM
W120/W121 chassis ?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on February 15, 2021, 12:46:00 PM
No
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Post by: oko94 on February 15, 2021, 02:50:34 PM
Was the chassis built before 1970 ?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on February 15, 2021, 03:16:38 PM
Yes
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: oko94 on February 15, 2021, 04:02:55 PM
W136 chassis ?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on February 16, 2021, 01:09:17 AM
Yes
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: pnegyesi on February 16, 2021, 05:05:47 AM
do you still see this photo on Ebay?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on February 16, 2021, 05:19:34 AM
No, but even if it was visible it wouldn't provide you a solution.
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: pnegyesi on February 16, 2021, 08:06:12 AM
made for a movie?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on February 16, 2021, 11:01:38 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: pnegyesi on February 16, 2021, 11:04:21 AM
made by a well-known coachbuilder?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: 727 on February 16, 2021, 11:04:52 AM
Some kind of promotional car?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on February 16, 2021, 11:11:10 AM
Quote from: pnegyesi on February 16, 2021, 11:04:21 AM
made by a well-known coachbuilder?
Not a well-known one, but not obscure either. It can be found in literature.

Quote from: 727 on February 16, 2021, 11:04:52 AM
Some kind of promotional car?
Yes
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: pnegyesi on February 16, 2021, 11:17:15 AM
was this coachbuilder the subject of puzzles here before?
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Post by: Wendax on February 16, 2021, 11:30:34 AM
Surprisingly not
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Post by: pnegyesi on February 16, 2021, 11:50:58 AM
is the company still around?
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Post by: Wendax on February 16, 2021, 12:07:04 PM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: pnegyesi on February 16, 2021, 12:19:26 PM
from Baden-Württemberg?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on February 17, 2021, 01:47:40 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: pnegyesi on February 17, 2021, 08:41:17 AM
from Bavaria?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on February 17, 2021, 08:47:15 AM
No
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Post by: pnegyesi on February 18, 2021, 12:04:58 PM
from Hamburg?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on February 19, 2021, 04:00:12 AM
Yes
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Post by: pnegyesi on February 19, 2021, 04:25:58 AM
Ehlers?
Title: Re: Wendax 3418
Post by: Wendax on February 19, 2021, 06:06:53 AM
Yes, it was built by Ehlers for the publisher Gruner & Jahr (Stern magazine).
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 3418 - Mercedes-Benz 170 V promotional car by Ehlers
Post by: Wendax on February 22, 2021, 01:22:52 PM
A front view:
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 3418 - Mercedes-Benz 170 V promotional car by Ehlers
Post by: Wendax on September 18, 2022, 04:57:45 PM
The car in action:
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 1155 - Mercedes-Benz 170 Va promotional car by Ehlers
Post by: Wendax on November 17, 2025, 05:08:55 PM
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