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Solved: Wendax 1623 - BMW 503a
« on: June 14, 2015, 02:16:45 AM »
Down by the river.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2015, 03:58:38 AM »
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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2015, 03:05:19 AM »
No expert guesses, up it goes

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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2015, 04:07:09 AM »
BMW 502 by Worblaufen ?

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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2015, 04:42:23 AM »
BMW, but not by Worblaufen

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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2015, 04:45:58 AM »
a privately built "eigenbau"?
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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2015, 05:01:46 AM »
German coachbuilder ?

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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2015, 07:01:37 AM »
a privately built "eigenbau"?
No

German coachbuilder ?
Not a coachbuilt car

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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2015, 08:03:21 AM »
Not homebuilt, not coachbuilt ... is it a factory prototype ?

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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2015, 08:25:10 AM »
Yes

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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2015, 08:28:52 AM »
BMW 503 prototype ?

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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2015, 08:34:18 AM »
Yes, locked for you to provide its name (503 is part of it) and a year.

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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2015, 08:47:56 AM »
1954 BMW E503 prototype ?

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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2015, 09:19:34 AM »
1954 is correct, and it is a 503_ (missing letter is not E).

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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2015, 09:34:24 AM »
503C ?

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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #15 on: June 28, 2015, 09:39:07 AM »
Quite close, but no

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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #16 on: June 28, 2015, 09:47:22 AM »
503A ?

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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #17 on: June 28, 2015, 09:50:41 AM »
In fact it is 503a, but I will call this solved.  ;)

It was an in-house development, before they hired Graf Goertz to do the styling on the production car.

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Re: Wendax 1623
« Reply #18 on: June 28, 2015, 10:54:24 AM »
In fact it is 503a, but I will call this solved.  ;)

You're so generous !

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Re: Solved: Wendax 1623 - BMW 503a
« Reply #19 on: June 29, 2015, 03:48:18 AM »
Front lights are almost the same as Lancia Aurelia B55 Ghia's ones...I would have guessed Ghia.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 1623 - BMW 503a
« Reply #20 on: March 04, 2017, 07:40:24 AM »
This car was built by Ernst Loof at the former Veritas premises at the Nürburgring alongside the 502 Sportwagen (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2010-38/gg-75-bmw-507-prototype-roadster-1954-by-ernst-loof and www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2011-39/solved-neh-952-bmw-roadster-by-ernst-loof-1954).

A rear view: