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Solved: Wendax 634 - Hansa 3500
« on: August 11, 2012, 01:24:44 AM »
Certainly in need of a car wash.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

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Re: Wendax 634
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2012, 01:36:55 AM »
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Re: Wendax 634
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2012, 12:09:12 PM »
BMW?

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Re: Wendax 634
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2012, 12:23:24 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 634
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2012, 12:57:10 PM »
from Germany?

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Re: Wendax 634
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2012, 02:21:45 PM »
yes

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Re: Wendax 634
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2012, 06:33:41 PM »
Opel Admiral with a nose job?

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Re: Wendax 634
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2012, 01:59:14 AM »
No

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Re: Wendax 634
« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2012, 04:16:24 AM »
EMW Eisenach?

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Re: Wendax 634
« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2012, 03:15:01 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 634
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2012, 01:28:45 PM »
Audi 920?

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Re: Wendax 634
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2012, 01:30:46 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 634
« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2012, 04:42:10 PM »
Hansa 3500?

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Re: Wendax 634
« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2012, 04:50:04 PM »
Yes, well done. It is a Hansa 3500, built from 1937 to 1939.

I'm not absolutely sure about the integrated lights. I haven't seen this front on a Hansa 3500 before, but there are only a few pictures of this rare car around. Maybe it is a late one from 1939.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 634 - Hansa 3500
« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2012, 06:27:10 PM »
No, I haven't seen those integrated headlamps on other pictures either.
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Re: Solved: Wendax 634 - Hansa 3500
« Reply #15 on: May 19, 2013, 05:27:06 PM »
The Hansa 3500 Privat, as it appeared in 1936:

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Re: Solved: Wendax 634 - Hansa 3500
« Reply #16 on: May 22, 2013, 12:17:43 PM »
When it occured at this very fine austrian website I was electrified,
because I do not know any other comparable big pre-war Borgward with integrated headlights.

I´ve even contacted several Borgward experts like Peter Kurze last year to get some informations about this very car and they all quit.

Here´s all I have on my HDD. On top are the well known big Borgwards,
at the bottom the three pics of our mystery car.

I´ve found a source that talks of a Hansa 3800, but there´s no photo -
maybe it is an evolution of the 3500 with the free headlights?