Author Topic: Solved: Wendax 160 - Stretched Fiat 500 Giardiniera by Erik Teichmann  (Read 705 times)

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No point for identifying the base car, but I like this maxi-micro so much, I thought it to be a nice Easy Rookie Puzzle.

For one point, please respond and identify the builder of this beautiful machine.

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Re: Wendax 160
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2011, 03:51:09 PM »
turning this into a VEEP (Very Easy Expert Puzzle)

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Re: Wendax 160
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2011, 05:41:01 AM »
No idea, but found this:

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Re: Wendax 160
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2011, 05:42:19 AM »
Coooooooooool  8) 8) 8)

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Re: Wendax 160
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2011, 04:36:29 PM »
 :(
I don't like that kind of modern conversions... Just a bad way to scrap classic cars.

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Re: Wendax 160
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2011, 02:44:51 AM »
unbeloved and pushed around to pro level

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Re: Wendax 160
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2011, 02:57:45 AM »
A whole month at pro level without a single guess.  :'(

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Re: Wendax 160
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2011, 12:02:30 AM »
Taken at a German Fiat meeting?
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Re: Wendax 160
« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2011, 04:13:07 PM »
The photo was taken at a Fiat meeting, but not in Germany. The owner/builder is a native German speaker.

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Re: Wendax 160
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2011, 03:49:52 PM »
I think it's made by Erik Teichmann. Shown at "50 years of Fiat 500" metting in Garlenda, Italy.

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Re: Wendax 160
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2011, 03:52:55 PM »
Finally!!! Congratulations  :applause:

One more point for you.

(And I take my hands off those modern conversions of classic cars  ;) )

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Erik Teichmann is a "native German speaker" which suggests he isn't German.  Swiss, Austrian or Italian Tyrol?
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As I understood, he is Austrian.