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Solved: Wendax 709 - Delsaux Modulo
« on: November 03, 2012, 03:12:07 AM »
In case you haven't noticed, I like microcars.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

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Re: Wendax 709
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2012, 01:44:38 AM »
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Re: Wendax 709
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2012, 06:16:54 AM »
This is the french DELSAUX MODULO microcar with an 47 c.c. Sachs engine. Apeared in 1979 with the 3 wheels version and with 4 wheels from 1980. Delsaux disapeared in 1983.

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Re: Wendax 709
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2012, 07:02:14 AM »
Yes. A well-earned point for you.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 709 - Delsaux Modulo
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2012, 02:40:48 PM »
Oh, I've missed that one !  ;)

I can give you a bit more accurate details, as I know quite well Bernard Delsaux, we've already met four or five times.
In fact, I have the project to write a quite big and detailed article in the "Retro" column of Generation Sans Permis, as soon as Mr. Delsaux will have find a bit more period pictures...

Anyway, in fact Delsaux started his voiturette business quite a bit before : he delivered his very first 3-wheelers already in 1976, after having worked a bit on the very first Erad Capucine !
Voiturette business is a very small world in France  ;D

Still, nobody seems to know that. Even l'Auto Journal didn't gave any mention of Delsaux before 1979, but it is quite logical. As with a few others very small voiturette companies, Delsaux started without showing his first cars at the Paris Motorshow or any "big" national event.
In most of the cases, René Bellu got to know the new faces of the voiturette market just be going to the motorbike or car parisian show, but some very obscure brands had never appeared at the Porte de Versailles.

Same thing for the 4-wheeler : the type-40 Modulo was already on sale in 1979. Still, Delsaux never produced more than 200 cars per year, as he always had less than ten employees.
Lately, he tried to increase a bit the Modulo sales with the Minimax (new body, numerous mechanicals tweaks), but on a cut-throat french voiturette market, it was already too late.

He stopped for good in may 1984, to become the last sales director at the struggling Lambretta France company, which was really in dire straits, trying to survive with their last diesel cars, the BMA Amica and Casalini Bretta.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 709 - Delsaux Modulo
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2012, 03:54:39 PM »
Thanks a lot for the additional information. Was the 1976 car already the Modulo, or was it a different one?

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Re: Solved: Wendax 709 - Delsaux Modulo
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2015, 07:18:07 AM »
Another brochure showing the Modulo with some areas painted black to make it look even more like a wedge:

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Re: Solved: Wendax 709 - Delsaux Modulo
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2018, 03:32:52 AM »
One of these rare birds is for sale right now: