Author Topic: Solved: Wendax 1409 - Faun 6/24 PS Typ K2 Rennwagen (Read 1400 times)

Wendax · « **on:** November 09, 2014, 04:45:46 AM »

Admired.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

Wendax · « **Reply #1 on:** November 16, 2014, 01:57:50 AM »

Wendax · « **Reply #2 on:** November 23, 2014, 04:20:41 AM »

up again

grobmotorix · « **Reply #3 on:** November 23, 2014, 11:11:21 AM »

This might be a Fafnir 2-liter race car from Aachen?

Rudolf Caracciola drove a comparable car at the very first Avusrennen (Berlin) in 1922.

Later version had an altered front mask and wire wheels.

Wendax · « **Reply #4 on:** November 23, 2014, 11:56:28 AM »

Sorry, not a Fafnir

grobmotorix · « **Reply #5 on:** November 23, 2014, 12:06:01 PM »

So it is not german at all, I presume...

Is this a french car?

Wendax · « **Reply #6 on:** November 23, 2014, 12:15:55 PM »

Not French, but German

grobmotorix · « **Reply #7 on:** November 23, 2014, 12:17:43 PM »

Oh no...

No idea...

Let´s dig

D-type · « **Reply #8 on:** November 23, 2014, 03:09:41 PM »

Opel Type 8/25?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #9 on:** November 23, 2014, 03:30:17 PM »

Is it a Komnick?

Wendax · « **Reply #10 on:** November 23, 2014, 03:37:41 PM »

Neither Opel nor Komnick

targhediferro · « **Reply #11 on:** November 24, 2014, 10:22:18 AM »

Apollo?

Wendax · « **Reply #12 on:** November 24, 2014, 03:19:57 PM »

grobmotorix · « **Reply #13 on:** November 24, 2014, 03:50:44 PM »

Dürkopp?

Wendax · « **Reply #14 on:** November 24, 2014, 03:55:30 PM »

targhediferro · « **Reply #15 on:** November 24, 2014, 05:04:46 PM »

Presto?

Wendax · « **Reply #16 on:** November 24, 2014, 05:19:48 PM »

targhediferro · « **Reply #17 on:** November 25, 2014, 01:14:44 AM »

Faun?

Wendax · « **Reply #18 on:** November 25, 2014, 02:35:39 AM »

Quote from: targhediferro on November 25, 2014, 01:14:44 AM

Faun?

Yes, locked for you to find out a few more details.

targhediferro · « **Reply #19 on:** November 25, 2014, 07:04:43 AM »

Wow...I was just fishing; there are few news about Fahrzeugfabriken Ansbach und Nürnberg, FAUN, on line. I think this car may be a 6/24 PS based, or typ K2, from 1920-24.

Wendax · « **Reply #20 on:** November 25, 2014, 12:25:34 PM »

Well, the only hard facts I have about this picture are that it was taken in 1925 at the Oberjoch-Hindelang hillclimb. That makes it most probably a Faun 6/24 PS Typ K2, built from 1924 to 1926.

One more point for you.

grobmotorix · « **Reply #21 on:** November 25, 2014, 02:41:56 PM »

The stock 1925 Faun looked like that (see below).
The chassis frame´s front ends and wheels are the same.
However the race car features front brakes and is heavily modified.

Do you know more any photos of the puzzle car?

Wendax · « **Reply #22 on:** November 25, 2014, 03:32:48 PM »

According to Werner Oswald four-wheel brakes were optional on the Faun K2 in 1925, and standard in 1926.
Unfortunately this is the only picture I know of this car.

D-type · « **Reply #23 on:** November 25, 2014, 03:37:09 PM »

The lines of the puzzle car are very similar to the modified Type 8/25 Opel driven by Fritz von Opel at the first Avus meeting pictured in Karl Ludvigsen's German Racing Silver. I suspect there may have been some cross-fertilisation.

grobmotorix · « **Reply #24 on:** November 25, 2014, 04:45:52 PM »

You mean the right car shown here from the rear?

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Author Topic: Solved: Wendax 1409 - Faun 6/24 PS Typ K2 Rennwagen (Read 1400 times)