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Solved: Wendax 118 - Kurt Ahrens jr.
« on: April 12, 2011, 01:35:03 AM »
A whuzzat puzzle from me.

For one point, please respond and identify the driver and his connection to cars.
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Re: Wendax 118
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2011, 03:55:23 AM »
At a guess, the son of one of the Silver Arrows drivers in the 1930s?
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Re: Wendax 118
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2011, 04:02:49 AM »
Not quite, but the pictured boy's father was a German racing driver.
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Re: Wendax 118
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2011, 04:10:25 AM »
Well the car is based on a 1938 A-U Rekordwagen so perhaps the photo is post-war and the boy's father was a post-war German racing driver, such as Hans Klenk
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Re: Wendax 118
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2011, 01:36:52 PM »
You are on the right path. The picture must have been made around 1946.

Hint: The boy would become a racing driver himself.
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Re: Wendax 118
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2011, 01:59:22 PM »
Well since Hans Stuck drove for A-U and Hans-Joachim was born in about 1951 it isn't H-J Stuck
Perhaps it's Kurt Ahrens Jr. born c1940. Kurt Ahrens Sr raced in speedway and junior formulae to that fits.
Oh, and the car he's in might have an oversize engine. . . .
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Re: Wendax 118
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2011, 02:03:15 PM »
Congratulations, it is six-year-old Kurt Ahrens jr at the wheel. The engine was an Ilo, so it wasn't oversized, I guess.
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