Topic: Solved TGF-141: Renault Vivasix Landaulet (coupe' Dorsay), 1929, Karl Strakosch

[targhediferro]

Very easy to identify this car, but I want to know who sold it when it was new, for a point.  Another point if you'll be able to give me a prove about the coachbuilder, because I don't know him.

[ropat53]

According to Bonhams

1929 Renault Vivasix Landaulette de Ville
Coachwork by Karl Strakosch
Chassis no. 475583
Engine no. 974
Sold for £6,325 inc. premium
The car was sold new in Austria.
"The car appears to have the remains of the original Austrian registration number on the rear plate: ‘W2223’ and comes with the original Austrian logbook in German. (Also, the cracked windscreen - that has been removed - has the Austro-Hungarian double-headed eagle on it)"
"Featuring unusual and most attractive coachwork by the somewhat obscure coachbuilder, Karl Strakosch, of Wien"

[targhediferro]

I'm really astonished...is there a car you don't know everything about?
Karl Strakosch is actually the name I was searching for. I'm not sure that he's the coachbuilder of this car (I have found it as a coupe Dorsay, but is the same car), or perhaps the Renault dealer in Wien. Tomorrow I'll post the picture of the plate with his name present on this car. Anyway, another well deserved point for you.

[targhediferro]

As promised...

[Wendax]

Generalrepräsentanz sounds like a dealer to me.

[ropat53]

I also believe Karl Strakosch was a Vienna Renault dealer/importer, could he have also made car bodies? I have found a few references on the Internet like this, from the book "Vienna Sotries - Viennese Jews recall the 20^th century in words and pictures": "Berthold Samek, ... a car at the Strakosch dealership, a beautiful Renault with velvet seat covers" the German version says "Autohaus Strakosch"
Once more you can not believe what auctioneers write about the cars they are offering.

And also it should be d'Orsay