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Happy New Year!

For one point, please respond and identify car and coachbuilder.

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2020, 07:00:32 AM »
Happy New Year!!!
Gutbrod Superior 600

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2020, 07:01:37 AM »
The body was made by Karosseriewerke Weinsberg

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2020, 07:07:52 AM »
It is obviously a Gutbrod Superior, but not an ordinary one. On a closer look you will notice some differences. The coachbuilder was not Weinsberg.

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2020, 07:18:38 AM »
Westphalia?

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2020, 07:21:52 AM »
Not Westfalia either

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2020, 07:24:30 AM »
Nor is it Wendler I guess, as it is then a lot more different.

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2020, 07:32:33 AM »
It is a Gutbrod Superior Luxus as in this brochure, but I Don't find the body maker in this ad:

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2020, 08:18:19 AM »
Nor is it Wendler I guess, as it is then a lot more different.
Not Wendler

It is a Gutbrod Superior Luxus as in this brochure, but I Don't find the body maker in this ad:
The coachbuilder will be hard to find, but it has been mentioned at AutoPuzzles before.

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #9 on: January 02, 2020, 10:27:24 AM »
Reutter?

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #10 on: January 02, 2020, 11:46:19 AM »
No, less known

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #11 on: January 03, 2020, 04:58:56 AM »
Hebmüller also worked on a Gutbrod, but I don't think it is this one.

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #12 on: January 03, 2020, 05:22:39 AM »
Not Hebmüller either

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #13 on: January 10, 2020, 02:27:51 AM »
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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2020, 03:39:45 AM »
Vineyard

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #15 on: January 10, 2020, 03:56:36 AM »
No

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #16 on: January 10, 2020, 01:38:07 PM »
Perhaps obvious but, German coachbuilder?

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #17 on: January 10, 2020, 01:54:04 PM »
Yes

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #18 on: January 10, 2020, 02:39:42 PM »
Dannenhauer & Stauss?

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #19 on: January 10, 2020, 04:51:26 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #20 on: January 10, 2020, 05:09:39 PM »
Schebera Heilbronn

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #21 on: January 10, 2020, 05:22:49 PM »
No, Schebera didn't exist anymore by then.

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #22 on: January 10, 2020, 05:39:44 PM »
Grille and bumper is different, right?

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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #23 on: January 10, 2020, 06:58:52 PM »
I don't know the answer to this one, so here's a crazy idea: early prototype bodied by Gutbrod?

Anyway, here's another image of the puzzle car:
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Re: Wendax 3085
« Reply #24 on: January 11, 2020, 01:44:12 AM »
Grille and bumper is different, right?
Yes, together with other differences.

I don't know the answer to this one, so here's a crazy idea: early prototype bodied by Gutbrod?
Yes, it is a prototype. You could also call  it a pre-series car, as there were several built.
But it was not bodied by Gutbrod.