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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2013 => Topic started by: grobmotorix on August 18, 2012, 04:36:51 PM
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Who knows this car?
I have a name and a year.
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Up!
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1959 VW Special Coupe by Beutler?
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The year is almost correct, but it is a one-off and not made by Beutler or in Switzerland.
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Up!
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Another car from KFBS K'lautern?
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Definitly not.
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Well, the overall shape and the building quality certainly looks like one of these built in K'lautern. Especially the trim work just reminded me of the one on the pic.
But if you say it's not I'll have to accept that. ;)
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Was it built in Hanover?
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Yes!
Locked for you!
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Yes!
Locked for you!
Thanks, but despite having Googled endlessly using every keyword I can imagine in both English and German I've coming up with nothing whatsoever for this car. I only guessed Hanover because of the Hanover registration of the car, not because I knew anything about it other than it's a VW Eigenbau from Hanover!
So you can unlock it and we'll see who knows what; I'll continue to search but I can't think of any other words I could use or order I could place them in. That name on the front looks like 'Maltier' or 'Hartier' or something like that but I've tried every sensible combination of likely letters and again still come up with nothing. I'm looking forward to seeing the answer!
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O.K., let´s see who´ll make it...
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To me it looks like the name on the boot lid ends with NIA
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The builder´s name is different from the name on the hood.
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To the black hole...
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I want this to be solved...
So here are some more facts about it:
- self-built by a 21 year old engineer.
- VW chassis
- Weight of the body: 115 kg
- Total weight: 625 kg
- 30 HP, top speed 130 km/h.
- Length: 3,96m
- Width 1,56m
- Height 1,24m
The builder has tried to sell it to the USA.
Here´s another 1959 photo and some more information:
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I wan´t this to be solved.
So a biig hint:
There once was an infamous candidate for The President of the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundespräsident), which is the head of state of Germany, who shared the same name with the builder of this car...
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Jens Reich?
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No. But you´re very very close!
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Frank Rennicke? :yuck:
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:yuck:
;D
Close in the sense of time, not alphabetically...
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Hans Hirzel?
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It was not Jens Reich, but it was the identical political rally...
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Rinser?
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Go for the 1994 rally.
The name does not start with an "R".
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Brücher?
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Oh, come on, you were so close with your first guess.
He was one candidate for the 1994 german Bundespräsident rally campaign, who shared the name with the builder of the car it it was not:
Brücher
Hirzel
Reich
Rennicke
Rinser
And he did not made it to the end for some infamous reasons
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Heitmann? I had luckily forgotten him.
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Well, we fortunately do not look for him here.
So this one is almost solved.
All I need is the correct year now.
LOCKED for you!
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1958?
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Right!
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Perhaps if I'd Googled "Selbstgestrickter aus Hannover" instead of "Eigenbau" and everything else to do with self-building I could think of this one might have shown up...!
What does "Selbstgestrickter" mean?
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Perhaps if I'd Googled "Selbstgestrickter aus Hannover" instead of "Eigenbau" and everything else to do with self-building I could think of this one might have shown up...!
What does "Selbstgestrickter" mean?
The German verb 'stricken' means 'knitting', so it's a humorous term here for 'hand-knitted' ~ 'self-built'.
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A 1959 article of Mr. Heitmann´s Eigenbau car: