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Solved:Wendax 847 - Omikron racecar
« on: March 24, 2013, 02:41:51 AM »
Ready to race.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2013, 02:54:32 AM »
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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2013, 06:25:26 AM »
BMW related ?

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2013, 07:51:10 AM »
Canadian car?

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2013, 11:41:59 AM »
Not Canadian and no BMW connection as far as I know.

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2013, 12:31:21 PM »
There's something weird about this photo.  The gent in the overstuffed chair with the missus by his side doesn't seem to belong in the alley with the car.  Was that photoshopped into the puzzle pic?

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2013, 12:39:03 PM »
No, it wasn't photoshopped. The lady is standing alongside another car the gent is sitting in. I just thought that one car is enough for a puzzle.  ;D
I'll show the complete photo when the puzzle is solved.

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2013, 01:34:37 PM »
I asked if there was a Canadian connection because the Lady has something on her dress that looks like an oak leaf.  Quiz car has some bagages on its back: were they leaving for a long journey? For a Raid?

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2013, 05:21:24 PM »
The decoration is pure coincidence, no Canadian connection at all, I think.
Regarding their luggage I just can guess that they might have been heading for a race, but I don't have any information of the circumstances of this photograph.

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2013, 08:58:19 PM »
1924/25 Spinell sports roadster?

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2013, 02:22:19 AM »
1924/25 Spinell sports roadster?
Close in several aspects, but not a Spinell.

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2013, 02:45:19 AM »
1923/24 Staiger 12 PS Sports Roadster?

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2013, 02:47:04 AM »
No

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #13 on: April 01, 2013, 03:26:33 AM »
1922 Arimofa?

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #14 on: April 01, 2013, 03:35:03 AM »
No, but the company in question was founded in 1922.

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2013, 04:43:40 AM »
So, are we about a 1922, quite obscure, german car?
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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2013, 05:31:38 AM »
So, are we about a 1922, quote obscure, german car?

I think the driver's hat looks a bit Tyrolean, but the car is RHD (unless it's a mirror image), and the woman's dress looks like Northern France or Belgium to me. But what would I know about women's clothes !?
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2013, 11:20:51 AM »
1922/24 Hagea sports roadster?

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2013, 02:41:31 PM »
1924/25 Spinell sports roadster?
Close in several aspects, but not a Spinell.
Following this clue I guess: Sun Automobil kleinenkraftwagen, 1922. Alphabetically close to Spinell and from Berlin too. Perhaps the men on board could be Henry and Emile Jeannin.

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2013, 02:47:54 PM »
So, are we about a 1922, quite obscure, german car?
Yes

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2013, 02:49:15 PM »
So, are we about a 1922, quote obscure, german car?

I think the driver's hat looks a bit Tyrolean, but the car is RHD (unless it's a mirror image), and the woman's dress looks like Northern France or Belgium to me. But what would I know about women's clothes !?
As always, I didn't mirror the picture.
I leave the rest to fashionistas.  ;D

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #21 on: April 01, 2013, 02:50:36 PM »

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #22 on: April 01, 2013, 02:51:41 PM »
1924/25 Spinell sports roadster?
Close in several aspects, but not a Spinell.
Following this clue I guess: Sun Automobil kleinenkraftwagen, 1922. Alphabetically close to Spinell and from Berlin too. Perhaps the men on board could be Henry and Emile Jeannin.
Sun - no
Alphabetically close - no
From Berlin - yes
The men on board - I don't know

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #23 on: April 01, 2013, 04:47:19 PM »
1922 EOS (once marketed as ERCO)?

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Re: Wendax 847
« Reply #24 on: April 02, 2013, 02:31:47 AM »
No