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Weidenhausen bodied Ford V8, german 1937 race special
« on: November 26, 2013, 02:26:25 PM »
Who knows this sports car?
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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2013, 03:15:43 PM »
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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2013, 04:43:34 PM »
Delahaye?
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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2013, 04:53:23 PM »
Not french.

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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2013, 04:12:24 PM »
BMW based?
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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2013, 04:39:40 PM »
No. But german - well, kind of...

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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2013, 06:32:54 PM »
A German special or eigenbau with a non-German base.  Based on a Lancia?
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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2013, 01:31:38 AM »
Not Lancia.

The basis make is not italian.

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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2013, 04:48:52 PM »
+I the base car is not German, French or Italian, is it ... Austrian?  A Steyr?
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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2013, 04:53:44 PM »
The base car IS german - and in a way it is not... ;D

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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2013, 06:16:43 PM »
NSU-Fiat base?
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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2013, 07:26:30 PM »
Very good guess.

You´re onto something.

But it was not a german-italian company.

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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2013, 06:30:30 PM »
Ford base?
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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #13 on: December 08, 2013, 02:53:55 AM »
Yes!

That´s what I meant.

The basis car has been built/developed in the USA first.

And then it was built in Germany, too.

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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #14 on: December 19, 2013, 08:33:29 PM »
tha basis car was in both side of the ocean?

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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #15 on: December 19, 2013, 11:30:47 PM »
No, but the basis car was a (US-)Ford, built in Germany.

The conversion of this stock version was done completely in Germany.

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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2014, 07:14:12 AM »
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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2014, 07:20:56 AM »
It surely is a Ford V8. Was it built for "2000 km durch Deutschland"?

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Re: grob 2013.11.26 sporty #05
« Reply #18 on: January 04, 2014, 07:30:52 AM »
Ford V8 as a basis car is correct.

However it did not join the "2000km durch Deutschland" to my best knowledge.

To help a bit:

itstarted at another big racing event in 1937... ;)

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Re: grob 2013.11.26 / Ford V8, german 1937 race special
« Reply #19 on: January 04, 2014, 07:35:30 AM »
Liège-Rome-Liège?

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Re: grob 2013.11.26 / Ford V8, german 1937 race special
« Reply #20 on: January 04, 2014, 07:43:23 AM »
Not this big, geographically seen.


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Re: grob 2013.11.26 / Ford V8, german 1937 race special
« Reply #21 on: January 04, 2014, 07:51:09 AM »
Eifelrennen?

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Re: grob 2013.11.26 / Ford V8, german 1937 race special
« Reply #22 on: January 04, 2014, 08:06:47 AM »
No.

More like a rallye like the 2000km.

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Re: grob 2013.11.26 / Ford V8, german 1937 race special
« Reply #23 on: January 04, 2014, 08:12:14 AM »
Did the race take place in Germany?

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Re: grob 2013.11.26 / Ford V8, german 1937 race special
« Reply #24 on: January 04, 2014, 08:28:35 AM »
I´m not sure about the countries it really hit.

But I think it was in any case A and most possibly D...  ;)