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Solved: Wendax 1087 - O.D. Rex 4
« on: December 02, 2013, 02:29:15 AM »
Old edge design.

For one point, please respond and identify this light truck.
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Re: Wendax 1087
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2013, 10:36:49 AM »
Russian?
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Re: Wendax 1087
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2013, 01:13:41 PM »
No, despite its GAZ-like looks
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Re: Wendax 1087
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2013, 02:23:18 AM »
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Re: Wendax 1087
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2013, 04:36:31 PM »
Just trying to narrow down the search.

East European??

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Re: Wendax 1087
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2013, 04:43:08 PM »
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Re: Wendax 1087
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2013, 04:52:46 PM »
Thanks Gerd.

That only leaves the whole rest of the left hand drive world :lmao: :lmao:

Probably some obscure German brand that you seem to find all the time and no one else can........

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Re: Wendax 1087
« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2013, 02:05:49 AM »
Yes, German.

The brand has been mentioned at AutoPuzzles before, but which one hasn't?  ;D
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Re: Wendax 1087
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2013, 02:08:31 AM »
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Re: Wendax 1087
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2013, 06:25:26 AM »
The design of this little truck reminds me to early '50 Faun....is it one of those, perhaps a prototype?
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Re: Wendax 1087
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2013, 06:29:29 AM »
Not a Faun
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Re: Wendax 1087
« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2013, 07:52:43 AM »
Ostner?
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Re: Wendax 1087
« Reply #12 on: December 18, 2013, 07:57:00 AM »
Almost, locked for you to find the correct name and model.
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Re: Wendax 1087
« Reply #13 on: December 18, 2013, 12:48:46 PM »
Wow, sometimes fishermans are lucky. You "almost" bring me to a brother-brand of Ostner; the only one I know is O.D. and the only model of that firm that can match with quiz-truck dimension is the Rex 4...but I haven't found a picture of one with those kind of front and doors. Anyway I guess O.D. Rex 4.
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Re: Wendax 1087
« Reply #14 on: December 18, 2013, 12:57:26 PM »
Absolutely correct, it is an early postwar OD Rex 4. On the attached picture you can see that both the original factory in the the Soviet zone (Brand-Erbisdorf, the former Elite factory) and the new one in the American zone (Sulzbach-Rosenberg) are mentioned. Shortly afterwards, the West German company turned to the Ostner brand.
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Re: Solved: Wendax 1087 - O.D. Rex 4
« Reply #15 on: December 18, 2013, 01:11:00 PM »
Thank you Gerd, both for the point and for posting this interesting leaf; I read something about Ostner-Dresden Rex today, and I understood that Rex 4 was offered with a 1172 cc Ford Eifel Engine, and with a 2 cyl. 474cc Dkw engine: do you know which of the two version is pictured in your quiz? Were they different in anyway?
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Re: Solved: Wendax 1087 - O.D. Rex 4
« Reply #16 on: December 18, 2013, 01:20:01 PM »
The leaflet speaks of it being a 1 ton truck, so that would make it a Ford-engined one.
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Re: Solved: Wendax 1087 - O.D. Rex 4
« Reply #17 on: December 18, 2013, 02:41:57 PM »
The truck pictured appears to have a rear differential.  Wouldn't the DKW-engined version would have been front wheel drive? 
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Re: Solved: Wendax 1087 - O.D. Rex 4
« Reply #18 on: December 18, 2013, 03:23:30 PM »
Hi All:

Congratulations, Fabrizio....  I had the answer as well but it was locked for you and honestly since you posted first I hoped you would find the answer which you did.

Below are what I believe are 4 more pages from the sales brochure that Gerd posted the cover page for.
This may help with some of the questions.

Edit:  Well, I messed up the photo size again, I will fix it later, and there were three photos not four


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Re: Solved: Wendax 1087 - O.D. Rex 4
« Reply #19 on: December 18, 2013, 04:51:38 PM »
Thank you very much, Bill! I just knew the page I posted. The brochure was printed in Saxony, probably in 1949. It would be interesting to know whether this little truck was built in the west or the east. I haven't found any mention of this version in any of the books I have. It doesn't look like the prewar O.D. and not like the postwar West German Ostner Rex.
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