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Graichen gas turbine engined car, 1933
« on: November 20, 2014, 11:32:11 AM »
Who knows this car?

And what special about it?
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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2014, 05:12:22 AM »
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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2014, 10:34:04 AM »
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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2014, 11:56:38 AM »
German?

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2014, 12:18:29 PM »
Looks like it was built in the 1950s resembling a 1920s car
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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2014, 02:28:09 PM »
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German?

Yes.

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Looks like it was built in the 1950s resembling a 1920s car

well, there is something very exotic about it, so it needed a years-ahead look... ;)

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2014, 02:46:31 PM »
An exotic drivetrain?

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2014, 02:48:18 PM »
Radial engine?
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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2014, 02:53:11 PM »
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An exotic drivetrain?

Yes.

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Radial engine?

No.

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2014, 02:57:48 PM »
gasoline-electric hybrid?

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2014, 03:09:05 PM »
Not a hybrid.

We had a different prototype of this inventor here at autopuzzles.
This puzzle car came three years later...

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #11 on: December 06, 2014, 03:20:38 PM »
Powered by compressed air? Erwin Jungfer?

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2014, 04:03:13 PM »
Not compressed air.

And not Mr. Jungfer...

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #13 on: December 06, 2014, 06:45:02 PM »
Rocket powered?
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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2014, 07:29:02 PM »
Not a rocket, but this type of engine is today almost only used in the air...

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2014, 10:13:19 PM »
Built before 1940?

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #16 on: December 07, 2014, 03:15:06 AM »
Propelled by a turbine or jet engine?

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02)
« Reply #17 on: December 07, 2014, 04:50:15 AM »
Yes - the source says that this vehicle is powered by a gas turbine!

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02) / a German gas turbine engined mystery
« Reply #18 on: December 07, 2014, 08:33:29 AM »
Another Valier\Heylandt?

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02) / a German gas turbine engined mystery
« Reply #19 on: December 07, 2014, 08:35:10 AM »
Not them...

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02) / a German gas turbine engined mystery
« Reply #20 on: January 04, 2015, 03:26:57 AM »
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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02) / a German gas turbine engined mystery
« Reply #21 on: January 06, 2015, 02:47:02 AM »
 Turbo Motoren AG of Stuttgart?

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02) / a German gas turbine engined mystery
« Reply #22 on: January 06, 2015, 12:48:42 PM »
Not Turbo.

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02) / a German gas turbine engined mystery
« Reply #23 on: January 15, 2015, 06:05:50 AM »
Built by Pietsch?

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Re: grob 2014.11.20 (02) / a German gas turbine engined mystery
« Reply #24 on: January 15, 2015, 12:07:49 PM »
Heylandt
Pietsch
Turbo
Valier


As I said you can find another car puzzle of this guy here at autopuzzles.