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Please tell me the car and driver/builder.
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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2015, 12:38:54 PM »
Experts?
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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2015, 09:01:52 AM »
Pros?
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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2015, 11:18:23 AM »
Made in Europe ?

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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2015, 12:36:32 PM »
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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2015, 04:21:21 PM »
Matchstick Special ?  ;D

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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2015, 05:04:31 PM »
Matchstick Special ?  ;D

I agree that it looks very homemade. Not a good-looking car.
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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2015, 06:29:41 PM »
Made in UK ?

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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2015, 04:40:27 AM »
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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2015, 04:47:59 AM »
Made in France ?

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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #10 on: November 16, 2015, 04:52:44 AM »
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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #11 on: November 16, 2015, 05:03:35 AM »
Made in Scandinavia ?

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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #12 on: November 16, 2015, 05:16:12 AM »
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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #13 on: November 16, 2015, 05:37:38 AM »
Made in a former Warsaw Pact country ?

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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #14 on: November 16, 2015, 05:56:28 AM »
Made in a former Warsaw Pact country ?

Probably. I don't have full details, but I think it's 95% certain.
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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #15 on: November 16, 2015, 07:29:36 AM »
As the car is amazingly flat, is it fitted with a flat-twin or a flat-four engine, or rather a radically tilted inline three or four ?

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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #16 on: November 16, 2015, 08:13:28 AM »
As the car is amazingly flat, is it fitted with a flat-twin or a flat-four engine, or rather a radically tilted inline three or four ?

That's a lot of questions!  ;D. I have no picture of the engine installation , but it must be radically tilted, as you suggest. That leaves one of the last 2 guesses!
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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #17 on: November 16, 2015, 09:23:36 AM »
Three-cylinder Wartburg engine ?

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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #18 on: November 16, 2015, 10:54:29 AM »
Three-cylinder Wartburg engine ?

YES!

I can confirm that the driver-builder was from the former DDR.
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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #19 on: November 16, 2015, 11:09:29 AM »
Pfeiffer-Wartburg?

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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #20 on: November 16, 2015, 11:10:43 AM »
Ehrard Winkler, FR Wartburg, DDR F3 Meisterschaft 1966

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Re: NIC #439
« Reply #21 on: November 16, 2015, 11:32:43 AM »
Ehrard Winkler, FR Wartburg, DDR F3 Meisterschaft 1966

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Re: Solved NIC#439 - 1966 Wartburg Eigenbau F3 of Erhard Winkler
« Reply #22 on: January 09, 2016, 05:14:20 PM »
It was not built by Winkler. It is, as stated by oko94, the FR Wartburg, built by Friedrich Richter. The car's nickname was Plättbrett (Ironing board).

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Re: Solved NIC#439 - 1966 Wartburg Eigenbau F3 of Erhard Winkler
« Reply #23 on: January 10, 2016, 04:43:02 AM »
It was not built by Winkler. It is, as stated by oko94, the FR Wartburg, built by Friedrich Richter. The car's nickname was Plättbrett (Ironing board).

Thanks for the information - I will amend the title of the puzzle. I have no further information about this car, and clearly you do!
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