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Solved: Wendax 1278 - Opel (?) Cabriolet by Schlesienwerk
« on: June 08, 2014, 02:07:17 AM »
I'm not absolutely sure about the base car, but I do know the coachbuilder.

For one point, please respond and identify (at least) the coachbuilder of this car.

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2014, 01:16:36 PM »
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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2014, 04:59:26 PM »
Is it French?

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2014, 05:08:36 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2014, 06:31:40 PM »
Sodomka ?

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2014, 02:09:56 AM »
No

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2014, 02:20:41 AM »
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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2014, 02:24:12 AM »
German coachbuilder?

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2014, 02:45:25 AM »
Yes

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #9 on: June 26, 2014, 03:03:44 AM »
Karosseriefirma Gläser of Dresden?

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #10 on: June 26, 2014, 03:26:37 AM »
No, less known

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #11 on: June 26, 2014, 06:36:04 AM »
Perhaps a Brennabor?...Just to help to find the coachbuilder.

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #12 on: June 26, 2014, 06:40:34 AM »
As I said in the initial post, I'm not sure about the base car.

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #13 on: June 26, 2014, 11:56:52 AM »
Is the coachbuilder located in Berlin, or one of its suburbs?

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #14 on: June 26, 2014, 02:15:00 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #15 on: June 26, 2014, 03:12:03 PM »
Is the coachbuilder located in territory that was once the DDR?

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #16 on: June 26, 2014, 03:20:10 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #17 on: June 26, 2014, 03:44:16 PM »
Is the coachbuilder located south of an east-west line passing through (and including) Frankfurt?

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #18 on: June 26, 2014, 03:54:38 PM »
Depends on which Frankfurt you think of.  ;)

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #19 on: June 26, 2014, 04:13:58 PM »
Ooops, sorry, I was thinking of Frankfurt am Main.

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #20 on: June 26, 2014, 05:04:19 PM »
Not south of that Frankfurt

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #21 on: June 26, 2014, 05:39:53 PM »
OK, we have now established that the German coachbuilder is not located in:

1. Berlin or its suburbs
2. The former DDR
3. Frankfurt am Main
4. South of Frankfurt am Main

So is the coach builder located west of a north-south line running through Frankfurt am Main?

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #22 on: June 27, 2014, 02:07:48 AM »
No

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #23 on: June 27, 2014, 02:46:22 AM »
Well, that's a surprise, most of my possibilities were northwest of Frankfurt am Main.  Now that we have established that the coachbuilder is/was located northeast of Frankfurt am Main, presumably south of Frankfurt an der Oder, and not in either Berlin or the former territory of the DDR, the possibilities have been greatly reduced.  Based on this isolation, is the coachbuilder of the puzzle car Hermann Harmening of Bückeburg?

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Re: Wendax 1278
« Reply #24 on: June 27, 2014, 03:00:09 AM »
No