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Just a scale model that never made it into production.

For one point, please respond and identify the man and the company behind this project, as well as the proposed base car.

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2011, 05:58:06 PM »
Stab in the dark--Raymond Loewy and Associates for a Studebaker base.

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2011, 06:35:56 PM »
Hans Trippel, I thought, and the design might be a predecessor for what would become the Weidner Condor?

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2011, 02:14:25 AM »
Stab in the dark--Raymond Loewy and Associates for a Studebaker base.
No, right decade, wrong continent

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2011, 02:15:13 AM »
Hans Trippel, I thought, and the design might be a predecessor for what would become the Weidner Condor?
No, wrong man, wrong car, right country

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2011, 04:05:18 AM »
It looks a slight bit Porsche-esque maybe?

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2011, 04:19:49 AM »
No Porsche involvement

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2011, 04:22:00 AM »
Ford?

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2011, 04:23:39 AM »
No

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2011, 04:36:15 AM »
Stab in the dark--Raymond Loewy and Associates for a Studebaker base.
No, right decade, wrong continent

Loewy and Associates worked with Studebaker, off and on, over 4 decades (1930's through 1960's). Should we assume you were referring to the 1950's as the right decade?
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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2011, 04:40:08 AM »
Sorry for being not precise. I associated the 1950s with Loewy's Studebakers.

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2011, 02:15:57 PM »
GDR?

My inner bells ring "Wartburg"...

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2011, 02:19:46 PM »
I suppose your inner bells need adjustment. It is West German.

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2011, 01:01:59 AM »
Coachbuilder or mass producer?

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #14 on: May 13, 2011, 02:15:01 AM »
Neither

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #15 on: May 13, 2011, 05:38:52 AM »
Bavarian?

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #16 on: May 13, 2011, 05:44:41 AM »

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #17 on: May 13, 2011, 06:01:12 AM »
A Borgward?
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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #18 on: May 13, 2011, 06:28:37 AM »
As said before, no mass producer behind this project

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #19 on: May 13, 2011, 06:33:39 AM »
Interesting...

A project by a designer? Like a study?

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #20 on: May 13, 2011, 06:39:23 AM »
Student's project?

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #21 on: May 13, 2011, 07:09:43 AM »
No to both.

It was a model that wasn't realized because the company ceased to exist. At least, that is one of the reasons.

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #22 on: May 14, 2011, 08:05:12 AM »
Was this company before it went bust a microcar producer?

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #23 on: May 14, 2011, 02:59:18 PM »
Yes

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Re: Wendax 167
« Reply #24 on: May 14, 2011, 05:00:27 PM »
Messerschmitt?