DKW Pininfarina 900ccm Sportcoupé (M49)

[Wendax]

Is sleuthing going on in private, via PM, to preclude others from benefiting from what might otherwise be posted publicly?  

No, I was just sending him a PM about my source which I didn't want to make public. The source wasn't absolutely clear about the M49 being the name of the puzzle car or a similar design by Baur. I pointed that out to grobmotorix. No other facts hidden from the public.

[Otto Puzzell]

 

[grobmotorix]

M49 I think is the general chassis name of the standard DKW Limousine.

It shares the same 900ccm two-stroke engine.

What I wanted to hear was the Farina connection.

A certain Mr. Roittner from Austria has raced it some time later.
I´d really like to know more about it...

[Wendax]

Herbert Roittner at the 1957 Semperit-Rallye:

[SACO]

What is this car , for 1 point !

[marmer]

Porsche 356-based?

[SACO]

Not Porsche 356-based !

[marmer]

Is it at least German?

[SACO]

Yes German !

[marmer]

Is this something from the Meisterschule für Handwerker?  (MHK). Maybe on Porsche chassis?

[SACO]

Not  Meisterschule für Handwerker !

[SACO]

Experts !

[fromwien]

"Sportwagen Brand", 1954, based on a DKW F91...
Later Mr. Brand sold the car to Austria. To Herbert Roither in Salzburg. Roither raced the car and destroyed it in practice to the 1957 Gaisberg hill climb race

[SACO]

Yes ! Sportwagen by Hubert Brand , 1954, based on a DKW F91 !
Another point for fromwien !

[Wendax]

Merged

So another puzzle piece (Brand) added to the history of this car.

[Djetset]

Now I am totally confused!

So, was this DKW bodied by Stab. Farina, Pininfarina, Baur or Brand, as the solution really isn't clear?! Thanks.

[grobmotorix]

Brand/make: DKW 900ccm chassis

Design: Pininfarina

Bodywork: presumably Pininfarina, maybe Baur

Drivers: Roittner + Brand

[Allemano]

Front view

[fromwien]

Two more (brilliant) pictures of the Roittner-car (not, Roithner, as I wrote before) at the first "Semperit-Rallye" 1957.

[Djetset]

Thank you for the clarification.