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Solved: Wendax 028 - Meller Falke
« on: February 15, 2011, 02:21:15 PM »
Six wheels looking for an identity.

For one point, please respond and identify this car, its base and its date of creation.

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2011, 02:15:39 AM »
Score 6:0

Six wheels, no guesses, time to change the team, expert time.

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2011, 05:04:34 AM »
Is there a Fiat (Jungla) underneath?
It's as much fun to scare as to be scared

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2011, 06:23:28 AM »
 :shakehead:

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2011, 08:05:18 AM »
By the hubcaps and wheels there must be a Volkswagen under there.  Is it from Brazil?

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2011, 08:14:22 AM »
Volkswagen yes, Brazil no

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2011, 10:08:05 PM »
How about Romania?  Looks like an ARO badge.

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2011, 02:31:14 AM »
This puzzle car is not from Romania.

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2011, 02:16:40 AM »
Professional VW knowledge needed

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2011, 05:58:02 AM »
 :bump:

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2011, 09:31:58 AM »
Another view:

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2011, 09:36:11 AM »
The setting makes me thing German

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2011, 09:40:43 AM »
Indeed

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2011, 10:12:16 AM »
Hab leider keine Ahnung

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #14 on: April 13, 2011, 01:18:30 PM »
"Suchet, so werdet Ihr finden."


(Search, and you will find.)

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #15 on: April 14, 2011, 06:08:47 AM »
Sechsrad?

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #16 on: April 14, 2011, 06:14:41 AM »

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #17 on: April 14, 2011, 06:17:44 AM »
It looks like the beetle engine is in the same place as normal and a kind of subframe was added. Googling Sechsrad and Kaefer did not help me a lot. I'll try geography. Is this Southern Germany?

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #18 on: April 14, 2011, 06:25:08 AM »
No

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #19 on: April 14, 2011, 06:35:30 AM »
Googling Sechsrad and Kaefer did not help me a lot.

So close and yet so far.  ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #20 on: April 14, 2011, 06:38:12 AM »
No
The obvious next question would then be Northern Germany, but the Germans have a habit of thinking in Middle Germany as well, so the question needs asking. Is it Northern Germany?

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #21 on: April 14, 2011, 06:41:50 AM »
Yes, it is Northern Germany.

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #22 on: April 14, 2011, 06:45:33 AM »
Big city?

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #23 on: April 14, 2011, 06:52:16 AM »
Yes

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Re: Wendax 028
« Reply #24 on: April 14, 2011, 06:57:12 AM »
It's a Meller Falke (Falcon), a prototype six-wheeler built on a shortened Beetle chassis by Karl-Heinz Meller in Hamburg in 1980.

He apparently had dealings with Saudi Arabia, and a Saudi prince asked him to design and build a light vehicle for falconry hunting in the desert. There was an intention to put it into small series production, but Meller died suddenly, and the project folded.