Author Topic: Solved: Wendax 028 - Meller Falke (Read 2592 times)

Wendax · « **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.

Wendax · « **Reply #1 on:** February 22, 2011, 02:15:39 AM »

Score 6:0

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

Oswald · « **Reply #2 on:** February 22, 2011, 05:04:34 AM »

Is there a Fiat (Jungla) underneath?

Wendax · « **Reply #3 on:** February 22, 2011, 06:23:28 AM »

hugo90 · « **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?

Wendax · « **Reply #5 on:** February 23, 2011, 08:14:22 AM »

Volkswagen yes, Brazil no

hugo90 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 23, 2011, 10:08:05 PM »

How about Romania? Looks like an ARO badge.

Wendax · « **Reply #7 on:** February 24, 2011, 02:31:14 AM »

This puzzle car is not from Romania.

Wendax · « **Reply #8 on:** March 03, 2011, 02:16:40 AM »

Professional VW knowledge needed

Wendax · « **Reply #9 on:** March 31, 2011, 05:58:02 AM »

Wendax · « **Reply #10 on:** April 13, 2011, 09:31:58 AM »

Another view:

DeAutogids · « **Reply #11 on:** April 13, 2011, 09:36:11 AM »

The setting makes me thing German

Wendax · « **Reply #12 on:** April 13, 2011, 09:40:43 AM »

Indeed

DeAutogids · « **Reply #13 on:** April 13, 2011, 10:12:16 AM »

Hab leider keine Ahnung

Wendax · « **Reply #14 on:** April 13, 2011, 01:18:30 PM »

"Suchet, so werdet Ihr finden."

(Search, and you will find.)

DeAutogids · « **Reply #15 on:** April 14, 2011, 06:08:47 AM »

Sechsrad?

Allemano · « **Reply #16 on:** April 14, 2011, 06:14:41 AM »

Quote from: DeAutogids on April 14, 2011, 06:08:47 AM

Sechsrad?

Apparently!

DeAutogids · « **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?

Wendax · « **Reply #18 on:** April 14, 2011, 06:25:08 AM »

Wendax · « **Reply #19 on:** April 14, 2011, 06:35:30 AM »

Quote from: DeAutogids on April 14, 2011, 06:17:44 AM

Googling Sechsrad and Kaefer did not help me a lot.

So close and yet so far.

DeAutogids · « **Reply #20 on:** April 14, 2011, 06:38:12 AM »

Quote from: Wendax on April 14, 2011, 06:25:08 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?

Wendax · « **Reply #21 on:** April 14, 2011, 06:41:50 AM »

Yes, it is Northern Germany.

DeAutogids · « **Reply #22 on:** April 14, 2011, 06:45:33 AM »

Big city?

Wendax · « **Reply #23 on:** April 14, 2011, 06:52:16 AM »

Tom_I · « **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.

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