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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #25 on: October 31, 2012, 01:18:14 PM »
Is it a Popular magazine?  ;)
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #26 on: October 31, 2012, 01:19:02 PM »
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #27 on: October 31, 2012, 01:20:57 PM »
Is Illustrated in the title?
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #28 on: October 31, 2012, 01:26:51 PM »
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on October 31, 2012, 01:20:57 PM
Is Illustrated in the title?
No.
It's really VERY famous, around the world.
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #29 on: October 31, 2012, 01:31:11 PM »
An extremist publication, so to say.  ;D
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #30 on: October 31, 2012, 01:32:49 PM »
Guinness Book? World's smallest car (at the time)?
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #31 on: October 31, 2012, 01:34:12 PM »
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on October 31, 2012, 01:32:49 PM
Guinness Book? World's smallest car (at the time)?
Yes. For the German edition at least.
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #32 on: October 31, 2012, 01:37:07 PM »
>1980?
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #33 on: October 31, 2012, 01:37:55 PM »
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #34 on: October 31, 2012, 01:41:12 PM »
<1990?
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #35 on: October 31, 2012, 01:45:34 PM »
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #36 on: October 31, 2012, 01:45:51 PM »
"W. Fritz, a car dealer, is displaying the smallest car in the world"?
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #37 on: October 31, 2012, 01:48:55 PM »
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"W. Fritz, a car dealer, is displaying the smallest car in the world"?
I don't know from where you've got that, but it's not the name I'm after.

We're looking for an electric driven microcar.
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #38 on: October 31, 2012, 01:51:17 PM »
I got that from a book (but not the Guinnes Book, to which I don't have access) :D
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #39 on: October 31, 2012, 01:55:01 PM »
As said before I reckon it's not easy to find. My source reports it's in the Guinness book* of 199_ but I couldn't confirm either.

*to be exact it's a Guinness smallest electric... of the world. If it actually IS featured in the book I don't know.
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #40 on: October 31, 2012, 01:56:02 PM »
Ah, so >1990, and not <1990
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #41 on: October 31, 2012, 01:58:52 PM »
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on October 31, 2012, 01:56:02 PM
Ah, so >1990, and not <1990
Oh sorry, I misread your post.
Yes, it's from the nineties.
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #42 on: October 31, 2012, 02:04:32 PM »
No worries  :)

I expect there is enough here for somebody to find the answer - especially if they have ready access to German-language Guinness Books from the 1990's!  ;D
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #43 on: April 19, 2015, 12:26:16 PM »
I found a magazine cutout from 1988, Rudi Augstein is the wanted man!
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #44 on: April 19, 2015, 12:42:52 PM »
To answer the remaining questions not only with the German article: he was from Westheim (Rhineland-Palatine) and his car was electric powered.
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Re: Allemano's № 859
« Reply #45 on: April 23, 2015, 05:11:19 AM »
After 2½ years we finally have a winner! :applause:
I never could confirm if it was entry of the Guiness Book of Records, so it's a relief that we now have another source.

2 more points for Wendax' tally.

(the builder is apparently not the ex-editor of German's most famous political magazine..)
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Re: Solved: Allemano's № 859 - Solved: Allemano's № 859 - Electric microcar built by Rudi Augstein (
« Reply #46 on: April 23, 2015, 03:38:47 PM »
Sometimes it helps to clean up the basement.  ;D
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Re: Solved: Allemano's № 859 - Electric microcar built by Rudi Augstein (1988)
« Reply #47 on: August 31, 2018, 06:49:16 AM »
The car is for sale right now. The builder's name was Rudi Augustin, not Augstein. The car was built from 1976 to 1983 taking 6500 hours of work. Its official name is RA (Rudi Augustin) Audi X1.
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Re: Solved: Allemano's № 859 - Electric microcar built by Rudi Augustin (1983)
« Reply #48 on: September 04, 2018, 01:00:14 PM »
Great!
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Re: Solved: Allemano's № 859 - Electric microcar built by Rudi Augustin (1983)
« Reply #49 on: June 30, 2022, 11:13:04 AM »
It is for sale again, but I doubt that anybody will pay 59,000 € for it.
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