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Solved: Wendax 611 - Opel P4 with Olympia body by Thalheim
« on: June 22, 2012, 03:39:37 AM »
Caution! Solutions at AutoPuzzles may appear closer than they are.  ;D

For one point, please respond and identify the base car and the coachbuilder.

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2012, 02:58:07 AM »
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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2012, 12:36:33 PM »
Those look like Opel grille designes to me, but further than that.....?

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2012, 12:59:56 PM »
Opel is just part of the answer.

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2012, 02:19:59 PM »
Creating a hearse from a Kombi by a coachbuilder like Westrick?

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2012, 02:38:17 PM »
Not a hearse, built by a coachbuilder, but not by Westrick

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2012, 03:56:42 PM »
Let's try this again:
Base car: Opel Olympia
Coachbuilder: Autenreith?


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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2012, 04:09:19 PM »
No to both

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2012, 05:14:03 PM »
One more time:
Base car: Opel Olympia Rekord?
Coachbuilder: Rometch?

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2012, 05:17:16 PM »
Caution! Solutions at AutoPuzzles may appear closer than they are.  ;D

Take a close look and you will find out that it isn't an Olympia (Rekord), although it's really hard trying to look like it.

The coachbuilder is more obscure than Rometsch.

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2012, 08:43:58 PM »
Caution! Solutions at AutoPuzzles may appear closer than they are.  ;D

Ain't that the truth?   :D

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Take a close look and you will find out that it isn't an Olympia (Rekord), although it's really hard trying to look like it.

The coachbuilder is more obscure than Rometsch.

Well, how about a Opel Kapitän being turned into an ambulance  by Ratschke?

I thought I had a fair handle on Opels from WAY back when, but as so often seems to be the case here, "things are not as they seem."

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2012, 01:14:56 AM »
Not a Kapitän and not by Raschke.

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #12 on: July 11, 2012, 12:05:14 PM »
It has a rather high bonnet. Based on an Opel Blitz?

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2012, 01:46:30 PM »
Not based on a Blitz

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2012, 06:12:39 PM »
Is this car narrower than the Opel it looks like?

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #15 on: July 15, 2012, 03:38:46 AM »
Yes, well observed

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #16 on: July 22, 2012, 01:34:51 AM »
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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #17 on: July 22, 2012, 02:14:37 PM »
Kadett based?

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #18 on: July 22, 2012, 02:32:30 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #19 on: July 22, 2012, 03:26:05 PM »
Based on a pre-war Opel?

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #20 on: July 22, 2012, 03:31:38 PM »
Yes

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #21 on: July 22, 2012, 03:32:57 PM »
P4?

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #22 on: July 22, 2012, 03:51:40 PM »
Yes, it is a rebodied Opel P4 made to look like the 1953 Opel Olympia Rekord. That was the easy part. Now for the coachbuilder ...

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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #23 on: July 22, 2012, 06:12:14 PM »
Karosserie (Rudy) Thalheim, 1951, Dresden-Weixdorf  ;)


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Re: Wendax 611
« Reply #24 on: July 26, 2012, 04:12:32 AM »
Yes, it was done by Rudi Thalheim in Dresden. The year 1951 mentioned on their site must be wrong as the design they copied onto the P4 chassis definitely is a 1953/54 Olympia Rekord.

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