Sölved: Wendax 845 - Paul Speidel racecar

Wendax · March 22, 2013, 03:15:38 AM

Heading for Studio 54.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

Wendax · March 29, 2013, 02:45:04 AM

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targhediferro · March 29, 2013, 04:23:42 AM

French?

Wendax · March 29, 2013, 04:39:31 AM

No

targhediferro · March 29, 2013, 02:00:35 PM

The steering wheels seems very big, but perhaps is the body to be small. May we consider this car a cyclecar?

Wendax · March 29, 2013, 02:42:24 PM

Yes

targhediferro · March 29, 2013, 03:38:05 PM

Germany?

Wendax · March 29, 2013, 04:53:39 PM

No

4popoid · March 30, 2013, 01:04:04 AM

Well France and Germany have been ruled out, but I think I see influences of both, so I will guess Switzerland. Fortunately, if I am correct, I can find only two Swiss cyclecar manufacturers in the correct time frame (about WWI). The puzzle car doesn't resemble the only photo of an Egg that I could locate, and I can't find any photos of a Speidel. Therefore, I will have to venture a guess, and say that, if the puzzle car is actually Swiss, it is a Speidel from about 1916.

Wendax · March 30, 2013, 02:33:39 AM

Well done, it is a Speidel (or Paul Speidel as the logo says). Speidel built just a few more than 12 cars from 1915 to 1922. This is his last one, built for the 1922 Swiss Grand Prix, powered by a two-cylinder 620 cc Müller-Vogel engine.

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Sölved: Wendax 845 - Paul Speidel racecar