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Puzzle #1849 - MAYBACH Type SW35 Stromlinien / Spohn
« on: January 07, 2011, 05:55:17 AM »
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Re: Puzzle #1849
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2011, 06:23:59 AM »
Austrian?

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Re: Puzzle #1849
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2011, 06:28:27 AM »
Maybach SW 35 with streamline bodywork by Spohn.

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Re: Puzzle #1849
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2011, 06:45:19 AM »
I'd say SW 35 Jaray...
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Re: Puzzle #1849
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2011, 06:54:49 AM »
Paul Jaray was one of the masterminds of streamline bodies, but he didn't build them himself. This was done for example by Gläser, using Jaray patents.

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Re: Puzzle #1849
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2011, 06:58:01 AM »
... or, as in this case, by Spohn in Ravensburg.

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Re: Puzzle #1849
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2011, 08:18:58 AM »
You are right, my appologies!
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Re: Puzzle #1849
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2011, 09:02:11 AM »
Here's how it looked after a wash and wax:

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Re: Puzzle #1849 - MAYBACH Type SW35 Stromlinien / Spohn
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2011, 07:54:29 AM »
Note this car was a preview to survey the german autobahn. Hence the two-color scheme... and the car dirty by running fast.

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Re: Puzzle #1849 - MAYBACH Type SW35 Stromlinien / Spohn
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2013, 03:19:53 PM »
Funnily enough this is a picture of it in complete black paint, within an essay that featured the advantages of aerodynamic car bodies against dust staining from 1936:


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Re: Puzzle #1849 - MAYBACH Type SW35 Stromlinien / Spohn
« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2013, 04:55:23 PM »
Having a day out with some streamline fellows:

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Re: Puzzle #1849 - MAYBACH Type SW35 Stromlinien / Spohn
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2016, 02:07:54 PM »
Frontal view:

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Re: Puzzle #1849 - MAYBACH Type SW35 Stromlinien / Spohn
« Reply #12 on: July 28, 2017, 01:51:10 PM »
No visible puzzle photo...

Here´s a 1935 comic that has definitly been inspired by this car: