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What's this, built by whom, from where - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 3355
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2014, 06:02:18 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 3355
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2014, 06:54:51 AM »
Is it powered by a petrol engine located at the rear?

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Re: NEH 3355
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2014, 07:27:33 AM »
Is it powered by a petrol engine located at the rear?

I'm afraid I have no specific details about it, but it certainly looks like it is, yes.
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Re: NEH 3355
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2014, 07:44:45 AM »
Was it made in France by an individual?

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Re: NEH 3355
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2014, 08:33:28 AM »
Was it made in France by an individual?

By an individual but not in France.
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Re: NEH 3355
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2014, 06:42:05 PM »
German?

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Re: NEH 3355
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2014, 12:18:32 PM »
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Re: NEH 3355
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2014, 05:58:04 AM »
Professionals?
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Re: NEH 3355
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2014, 06:27:32 AM »
From Western Germany?

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Re: NEH 3355
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2014, 07:52:07 AM »
From Western Germany?

You mean you don't know it?!
I thought you'd have this one done and dusted by now!

Yes, what we used to know as West Germany.
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Re: NEH 3355
« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2014, 08:59:58 AM »
One of the many cars I don't know...  ;D

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Re: NEH 3355
« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2014, 06:33:24 AM »
I has been lucky while I was looking for the wendax German race cars and I have found this puzzle photo but I am not sure about information because the page is in German and the google traduction is not good enought for me to be sure about what it means.

I think it is an eigenbau built by Walter Torreck from a German district called Kroog. The photo did not say the year I post the German information for some one that can speak german

Nach dem Krieg baute sich der Krooger Siedler
Walter Torreck, Zeppelinring 161,
in einer Bauzeit von 1 1/2 Jahren sein eigenes Auto.
Es wurde vom TÜV-Hamburg in Kiel abgenommen.
« Last Edit: April 26, 2014, 06:41:08 AM by serra »

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Re: NEH 3355
« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2014, 02:13:24 PM »
Well done!  I believe Walter Torreck was from Hamburg or the Hamburg area.

You seem to have a high success rate stumbling across answers whilst looking for something else..
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Re: Solved - NEH 3355: Home-built by Walter Torreck, Hamburg - 1940s
« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2014, 05:08:29 PM »
According to the source, Walter Torreck was a settler in Kroog, which is part of Kiel now. Kiel is the capital of the northernmost German federal state, Schleswig-Holstein. After one and a half years of building this car, the tests for the registration were done in Kiel by TÜV-Hamburg.

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Re: Solved - NEH 3355: Home-built by Walter Torreck, Hamburg - 1940s
« Reply #15 on: April 27, 2014, 07:59:33 AM »
According to the source, Walter Torreck was a settler in Kroog, which is part of Kiel now. Kiel is the capital of the northernmost German federal state, Schleswig-Holstein. After one and a half years of building this car, the tests for the registration were done in Kiel by TÜV-Hamburg.

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