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Title: Solved: Wendax 2760 - Suzuki Fronte gymkhana car by Katsuo Fujikuchi
Post by: Wendax on December 18, 2018, 02:38:57 AM
a tiny racer.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on December 25, 2018, 02:54:32 AM
up
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: richard cuyler on December 25, 2018, 03:16:48 PM
Is it French with a Renault R5 Turbo engine in the rear?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on December 25, 2018, 03:51:37 PM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: tobytwirl on December 28, 2018, 06:08:18 PM
Are those wheels from a Fiat 500?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on December 29, 2018, 01:54:27 AM
I don't think so.
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: tobytwirl on December 30, 2018, 07:48:10 AM
Any connection with steyr-puch?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: D-type on December 30, 2018, 11:59:58 AM
Any connection with a [real] Mini?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on December 30, 2018, 12:13:45 PM
Twice no
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: tobytwirl on December 31, 2018, 09:51:59 AM
Is it American?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on December 31, 2018, 11:47:06 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: tobytwirl on January 05, 2019, 09:23:02 PM
Is it British?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 06, 2019, 02:30:36 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: tobytwirl on January 06, 2019, 02:21:32 PM
Swedish?
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Post by: Wendax on January 06, 2019, 03:45:42 PM
No
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Post by: tobytwirl on January 11, 2019, 09:23:20 PM
Canadian?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 12, 2019, 02:12:49 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: tobytwirl on January 12, 2019, 08:56:30 PM
European?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 13, 2019, 03:14:42 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: tobytwirl on January 13, 2019, 06:19:07 AM
Antipodean?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 13, 2019, 07:39:51 AM
Not from Australia or New Zealand
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: tobytwirl on January 13, 2019, 12:25:07 PM
African?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 13, 2019, 01:30:29 PM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: D-type on January 13, 2019, 01:58:08 PM
French
American
British
Swedish
Canadian
European
Australia and New Zealand
Africa
Where's left?  South America?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 13, 2019, 02:01:57 PM
Not from South America
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: tobytwirl on January 13, 2019, 03:04:04 PM
Asian?

Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 13, 2019, 03:24:19 PM
Yes
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: D-type on January 13, 2019, 05:00:26 PM
French
American
British
Swedish
Canadian
European
Antipodean
Australia and New Zealand
African
South American

Surely that only leaves Asia (and Antarctica  ;) )?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: tobytwirl on January 13, 2019, 05:31:05 PM
Indian?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 14, 2019, 02:12:39 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: D-type on January 14, 2019, 11:29:48 AM
American
European
Antipodean
Australia and New Zealand
African
South American
Asian


I'm baffled.  There aren't any continents left.
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 14, 2019, 11:42:33 AM
Quote from: tobytwirl on January 13, 2019, 03:04:04 PM
Asian?

Quote from: Wendax on January 13, 2019, 03:24:19 PM
Yes
:grad:
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: tobytwirl on January 14, 2019, 04:01:12 PM
Singapore?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: D-type on January 14, 2019, 04:44:21 PM
My apologies - I obviously missed tobytwirl's "Asian?" question and the answer.

From Indonesia?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 14, 2019, 04:48:26 PM
Twice no
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: tobytwirl on January 14, 2019, 05:20:14 PM
Malaysia?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Skut on January 14, 2019, 06:43:58 PM
Japan?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 15, 2019, 02:36:58 AM
It is from Japan.
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Skut on January 15, 2019, 04:31:58 AM
Is it based on a rear engined Kei car.
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 15, 2019, 05:18:49 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: D-type on January 24, 2019, 01:55:39 PM
Is it based on a production car?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 24, 2019, 04:29:44 PM
Yes
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: D-type on January 26, 2019, 03:41:22 PM
But which one?  Is it a Suzuki underneath perchance?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 26, 2019, 03:50:26 PM
Not a Suzuki
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Skut on January 26, 2019, 06:38:06 PM
Subaru
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 27, 2019, 01:56:19 AM
Yes
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Skut on January 27, 2019, 06:48:50 PM
Based on a Subaru 360?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 28, 2019, 02:34:34 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: tobytwirl on January 30, 2019, 08:46:27 PM
R2?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on January 31, 2019, 02:25:16 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Skut on February 01, 2019, 06:11:31 AM
Is the sheet metal over the rear wheels from the production car.
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on February 01, 2019, 06:43:53 AM
Hard to tell. Maybe, but only portions of it.
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on February 01, 2019, 06:51:21 AM
Quote from: D-type on January 26, 2019, 03:41:22 PM
But which one?  Is it a Suzuki underneath perchance?
Sorry, folks! I messed this one up. This car is based on a Suzuki, not on a Subaru!!!
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Skut on February 01, 2019, 08:30:58 AM
Based on a Suzuki Fronte?
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on February 01, 2019, 08:51:07 AM
Yes, still need the builder though.
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on February 15, 2019, 02:24:58 AM
up again
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Oguerrerob on February 15, 2019, 03:34:55 AM
"Mr. Katsuo Fujikuchi test run of the car produced by the president. 420 cc up, 3 cab, port polishing, combustion chamber processing, acrylic glass, chamber, aluminum body. (Base, Fronte) MRCF" (Google translator)
Title: Re: Wendax 2760
Post by: Wendax on February 15, 2019, 04:23:19 AM
Well found!
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 2760 - Suzuki Fronte gymkhana car by Katsuo Fujikuchi
Post by: Paul Jaray on September 24, 2020, 02:36:23 PM
Looking for more info about this car, I found the page of "Fujitsubo Motors Factory" (Fujitsubo Giken Kogyo) located at the beginning in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka. According to that page, this car was made by Isamu Fujitsubo.

"Birth of a club and racing activities

MRCF is an abbreviation for Mastery Racing Club Fukuoka, and President Isamu Fujitsubo, who established Fujitsubo Giken Kogyo in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1955, created an organization called MRC and was engaged in racing activities. At the Gymkhana tournament of Oiso Long Beach sponsored by MRC around 1967, when our president, Lady Fujitsubo, who came to the area from Fukuoka, happened to participate in the competition with a B10 type Sunny 4-door sedan borrowed from an acquaintance, he performed better than the owner of the car. This was the starting point for racing activities.
With the advice of Mr. Isamu, President of Fujitsubo Giken, he added Fukuoka's F to the name of MRC and launched an organization called MRCF in 1968. JAF official recognition, Bridgestone, Mobile Oil Fukuoka, Toyota Corolla Fukuoka, Nishinippon Shimbun, etc. Jim Kana and the race were a great success, sponsored and sponsored by local companies such as Sports Nippon Shimbun and Yamaguchi Mitsubishi Motors.

Gymkhana
 

　Showa consists of 44 rounds to participate actively in the gymkhana competition, Subaru Ff -1 , Honda S 800 , Beret GT, ran in, such as Familia. The venue used the driving schools and airfield sites in each region, and was sponsored by MRCF and racing teams in each region.

Gymkhana car (base, Honda N) produced by Lady Fujitsubo. (...) We made several Gymkhana competition cars based on such light cars and asked MRCF club members to ride them. Due to the light weight of the car, we have achieved many good results.

From what I understood, Fujitsubo Giken Kogyo was located in Fukuoka and then moved to Yokohama.
They set a racing club MRCF (Mastery Racing Club Fukuoka, before known as MRC) located in Fukuoka where they ran these Gimkana cars they made (and they tune other pilot's cars).



Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 2760 - Suzuki Fronte gymkhana car by Katsuo Fujikuchi
Post by: Paul Jaray on September 24, 2020, 02:38:52 PM
...and we had them before:
https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2012-41/solved-allemano's-8470-802-1969-fujitsubo-7-rotary/msg214299/#msg214299