Author Topic: Solved: Wendax 1155 - Mercedes-Benz 170 Va rebodied to resemble a 1910 Daimler (Read 1974 times)

pnegyesi · « **Reply #26 on:** March 01, 2014, 07:01:44 AM »

Is it based on a car from Central Europe (excluding Germany and Switzerland)?

Wendax · « **Reply #27 on:** March 01, 2014, 11:15:13 AM »

No, it is based on a car from a Central European country you excluded.

pnegyesi · « **Reply #28 on:** March 01, 2014, 11:21:01 AM »

so is it based on a VW Kübelwagen?

Wendax · « **Reply #29 on:** March 01, 2014, 11:21:43 AM »

No, but on a German car

pnegyesi · « **Reply #30 on:** March 01, 2014, 11:28:57 AM »

based on an Opel?

Wendax · « **Reply #31 on:** March 01, 2014, 03:11:55 PM »

pnegyesi · « **Reply #32 on:** March 01, 2014, 03:27:53 PM »

based on a pre-war car?

Wendax · « **Reply #33 on:** March 01, 2014, 03:47:45 PM »

D-type · « **Reply #34 on:** March 01, 2014, 03:59:44 PM »

Based on an Opel Rekord?

Wendax · « **Reply #35 on:** March 01, 2014, 05:04:06 PM »

Ehhxekt · « **Reply #36 on:** March 02, 2014, 10:26:45 AM »

Judging by the wheels, my guess for the donor car is a Mercedes-Benz 170 from the late forties/early fifties.

Wendax · « **Reply #37 on:** March 02, 2014, 01:25:33 PM »

Yes, it has a Mercedes-Benz 170 Va as base.

Locked for you to have a guess at the building date and what it is supposed to resemble.

Ehhxekt · « **Reply #38 on:** March 03, 2014, 04:42:02 PM »

Please unlock – maybe someone else will be able to find out what it is supposed to imitate; I’m clueless. (There is certainly an air of inauthenticity about this vehicle; it somehow looks like an incarnation of the unspecified ’old car’ to me, the kind you sometimes see carrying tourists in holiday centres...) Was it built in the second half of the fifties?

Wendax · « **Reply #39 on:** March 03, 2014, 04:49:09 PM »

Your thoughts are correct. It was built in the second half of the fifties, 1957 to be precise.
Just have a guess at the make it is attempting. It is not far away from the source.
Still locked for one wild guess.

Ehhxekt · « **Reply #40 on:** March 03, 2014, 05:40:29 PM »

Would it be Maybach?

Wendax · « **Reply #41 on:** March 04, 2014, 02:08:17 AM »

No, even closer to the source

Ehhxekt · « **Reply #42 on:** March 04, 2014, 01:17:27 PM »

As close as Benz?

Wendax · « **Reply #43 on:** March 04, 2014, 01:21:15 PM »

As close as Benz, but the other one.

Grab your point!

Ehhxekt · « **Reply #44 on:** March 04, 2014, 02:38:32 PM »

So it is supposed to be a Mercedes by Daimler Motorengesellschaft...

Wendax · « **Reply #45 on:** March 04, 2014, 03:34:30 PM »

Yes, I hereby declare this puzzle solved. According to the ad I derived the picture from, it is supposed to resemble a 1910 Daimler. Hmmm....
I don't know whether it was built for a movie or whatever.

Wendax · « **Reply #46 on:** December 28, 2016, 03:44:04 AM »

It seems that it was built for advertising purpose:

News:

Author Topic: Solved: Wendax 1155 - Mercedes-Benz 170 Va rebodied to resemble a 1910 Daimler (Read 1974 times)