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Solved: Wendax 1375 - Duport 50 Diesel
« on: October 06, 2014, 02:31:27 AM »
While Audi has a single-frame grill, this one has a single-frame rar window.  :)

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

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Re: Wendax 1375
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2014, 05:18:04 AM »
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Re: Wendax 1375
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2014, 10:30:20 AM »
Ligier?

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Re: Wendax 1375
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2014, 10:54:29 AM »
No

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Re: Wendax 1375
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2014, 01:09:13 PM »
It looks to me the rear of a Duport French microcar

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Re: Wendax 1375
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2014, 01:14:27 PM »
Correct, locked for you to name the model.

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Re: Wendax 1375
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2014, 01:24:36 PM »
That is the hard part as no detailed pictures are availables to me. I'm guessing that it could be a 125/4.

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Re: Wendax 1375
« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2014, 03:41:21 PM »
Too bad, I had hoped that you could give me an exact answer.  ;)
It is not a 125/4.

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Re: Wendax 1375
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2014, 04:37:24 AM »
AS you said "an exact answer" I feel that my answer is close enough but not exactly correst, so IŽll try 125/4 GT

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Re: Wendax 1375
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2014, 04:50:12 AM »
No, it is not any kind of 125/4.  :)
It is just that this rear light arrangement does not match with the rear views I know of the type mentioned in my source. But I think Duport was very creative and this one just escaped me so far.

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Re: Wendax 1375
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2014, 05:01:21 AM »
Now I had a deeper dive in my archive and I found a brochure of this car.  :)

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Re: Wendax 1375
« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2014, 06:08:30 AM »
I don't have access to any brochures of Duport but I'm still feeling that the body base should be the same that was used for the 125/4 so my new guess es a type 50 Diesel

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Re: Wendax 1375
« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2014, 06:10:18 AM »
Yes, that's it.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 1375 - Duport 50 Diesel
« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2014, 06:21:49 AM »
Here are scan of two pages of the Duport 50 Diesel brochure. I always wondered why nobody noticed the badly shut bonnet on the title picture.  :o

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Re: Solved: Wendax 1375 - Duport 50 Diesel
« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2014, 01:59:32 PM »
Thank you Wendax, each time it's harder to obtain a point...but I'm not interested to arrive to soon to 200.