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Re: Wendax 1776
« Reply #25 on: December 21, 2015, 09:27:36 AM »
Austrian engine?
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Re: Wendax 1776
« Reply #26 on: December 21, 2015, 11:57:10 AM »
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Re: Wendax 1776
« Reply #27 on: December 21, 2015, 12:10:34 PM »
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Re: Wendax 1776
« Reply #28 on: December 21, 2015, 12:11:12 PM »
Jaguar engine ?
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Re: Wendax 1776
« Reply #29 on: December 21, 2015, 12:20:58 PM »
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Re: Wendax 1776
« Reply #30 on: December 21, 2015, 12:48:54 PM »
Joachim zu Furstenberg's MG TA special?
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Re: Wendax 1776
« Reply #31 on: December 21, 2015, 02:22:45 PM »
No, but you are very close. Locked for you.
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Re: Wendax 1776
« Reply #32 on: December 21, 2015, 02:46:49 PM »
Quote from: Wendax on December 21, 2015, 02:22:45 PM
No, but you are very close. Locked for you.

Heinz Molders?
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Re: Wendax 1776
« Reply #33 on: December 21, 2015, 03:06:55 PM »
Yes, some more details and the point is yours.
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Re: Wendax 1776
« Reply #34 on: December 21, 2015, 03:49:06 PM »
His team was called Renngemeinschaft Offenburg, and there seems to have been 3 cars in total.  One of them was the pre-war Assenheimer car rebodied, maybe this is that car?
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Re: Wendax 1776
« Reply #35 on: December 21, 2015, 03:54:02 PM »
You are right that there were three cars, but it is not the Assenheimer car.
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Re: Wendax 1776
« Reply #36 on: December 21, 2015, 04:05:23 PM »
The Assenheimer car was driven usually by Albert Farre, so maybe this is the car driven by Hans Georg Mall? I am not sure whether you mean this is a Molders-prepared car driven by someone else, or that the car in the puzzle is being driven by Molders and you need more information about it, which I cannot provide  ;D.
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Re: Wendax 1776
« Reply #37 on: December 21, 2015, 04:14:04 PM »
Well, time to end the torture.  ;)
It is in fact the Mölders car we had before: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=17633
After WW2 the body was altered to make it more competitive by improving the aerodynamics. When the car was discovered again, no parts of these modifications were attached anymore, so that it was decided to restore it according to its prewar looks.

One more point for you.
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Re: Solved: Wendax 1776 - MG TA / NA Special by Heinz Mölders in its postwar guise
« Reply #38 on: December 21, 2015, 04:44:45 PM »
Thanks for the point. I got a bit confused. I did know about the rebody, but didn't think that was what you were looking for.
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Re: Solved: Wendax 1776 - MG TA / NA Special by Heinz Mölders in its postwar guise
« Reply #39 on: December 22, 2015, 09:07:24 AM »
And I wanted to post this 1939 Mölders MG as a puzzle later... :P
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Re: Solved: Wendax 1776 - MG TA / NA Special by Heinz Mölders in its postwar guise
« Reply #40 on: February 17, 2019, 03:57:06 PM »
What it looked like in 1947:
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Re: Solved: Wendax 1776 - MG TA / NA Special by Heinz Mölders in its postwar guise
« Reply #41 on: February 17, 2019, 04:16:07 PM »
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