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Solved TGF-326: Ford Typ Koln - Volkswagen -
« on: December 31, 2013, 05:50:40 AM »
No, I've not posted the wrong picture!   This is an advertising leaf I found on the net, from which I've deleted the picture of the car and other parts that would have told you the correct answer.
So I want to know what car is shown in this leaf: Make and model....don't think at the first coming to your mind, and neither to the second one.
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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2013, 08:05:13 AM »
VW-Porsche 914 ?
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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2013, 08:09:49 AM »

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2014, 03:45:57 PM »
We need a Professional quizzer.

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2014, 05:00:15 PM »
Typ 2?

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2014, 05:09:19 PM »
I guess it has nothing to do with the Volkswagen company at all, but it is a 1920s/1930s ad for a small German automobile claiming to be a "people's car". Am I right?

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2014, 05:25:38 PM »
I guess it has nothing to do with the Volkswagen company at all, but it is a 1920s/1930s ad for a small German automobile claiming to be a "people's car". Am I right?
You're absolutely right! No Wolfsburg connection.

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2014, 05:31:30 PM »
Standard Superior??
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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2014, 05:41:48 PM »
I believe the Dehn of 1924 was described as a "peoples car".

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2014, 06:24:11 PM »
Ganz?

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2014, 06:59:41 PM »
Not Standard, Dehn or Ganz...younger than 1924.

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2014, 08:53:32 PM »
Is this the Swiss Volkswagen, prototyped in 1937/38, and produced in limited quantities by Rapid Motormäher of Dietikon, Switzerland, in 1946/47?

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2014, 08:13:46 AM »
Is this the Swiss Volkswagen, prototyped in 1937/38, and produced in limited quantities by Rapid Motormäher of Dietikon, Switzerland, in 1946/47?
No, it isn't.

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2014, 06:10:56 PM »
Opel 1,2 liter (1931-1935)?

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2014, 09:57:32 PM »
1932 Porsche Type 12 prototype for Zündapp?

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2014, 03:05:01 AM »
Not Opel, Porsche or Zundapp.

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2014, 07:44:11 AM »
Nobody has asked the nationality.  Is it Austrian?
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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2014, 08:08:10 AM »
not austrian.

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #18 on: January 13, 2014, 11:17:59 AM »
NSU Typ 32?
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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #19 on: January 13, 2014, 01:14:20 PM »
Not a NSU typ 32.

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #20 on: January 13, 2014, 01:18:18 PM »
just to be sure, German?
https://rareandunique.media - Rare&Unique Vehicles magazine
http://magyarjarmu.hu - detailed Hungarian motoring history (Hungarian language)
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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #21 on: January 13, 2014, 04:40:46 PM »
Yes, German....

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #22 on: January 13, 2014, 05:36:13 PM »
Hanomag?

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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #23 on: January 13, 2014, 05:39:58 PM »
Mercedes-Benz typ 170H
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Re: TGF-326
« Reply #24 on: January 13, 2014, 06:03:38 PM »
Not Hanomag and not Mercedes-Benz 170.