Solved - NEH 4840: Wartburg 353 Coupé - 1967

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Carnut

August 24, 2016, 07:34:29 AM
The first of two puzzles specially for the Rookies today.
What's this, from when - for 1 point?:

Remember - solving puzzles using 'Google Search by Image' is BANNED on AutoPuzzles!

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Lorenzo721

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August 24, 2016, 10:57:40 AM
A coupé version of the Wartburg 353, built in 1967.
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Carnut

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August 24, 2016, 11:39:56 AM
Quote from: Lorenzo721 on August 24, 2016, 10:57:40 AM
A coupé version of the Wartburg 353, built in 1967.

Of course!
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Wendax

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August 24, 2016, 11:51:05 AM
Of course not! This is just a private photoshop job which claims to follow technical drawings from 1967 that can be found in the AWE museum. This car was never built. The photoshop picture started from a Wartburg 353 Tourist photo.

Carnut

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August 24, 2016, 02:01:32 PM
Quote from: Wendax on August 24, 2016, 11:51:05 AM
Of course not! This is just a private photoshop job which claims to follow technical drawings from 1967 that can be found in the AWE museum. This car was never built. The photoshop picture started from a Wartburg 353 Tourist photo.

Crikey, there were other views of it as well..
I always wonder when seeing a car this like in 2016 for the first time why I never knew it existed or have never seen it before.
Now I know, but there are sometimes oddities which come out of the woodwork, especially from formerly very secretive countries like the GDR.
I did, however, think it was a very un-GDR like car...!
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Carnut

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August 25, 2016, 04:25:30 AM Last Edit: August 25, 2016, 04:28:26 AM by Carnut
There does seem to be a bit of a theme running about this car.
Below are a few pics, though none of them (apart from the plans) are the same as the puzzle picture, and one is just a scale model.
So did the factory toy with the idea of making a coupé?  It looks like they made that one captioned as a 355?
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Wendax

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August 25, 2016, 04:43:17 AM
We had the 355 before: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2007-35/solved-what-car-112-1969-wartburg-355

The East German engineers created a lot of cars that either never were built or just as a prototype, because the party didn't allow the production. The puzzle coupe reached the drawing stage, the white coupe is a recent photoshop job, the other white coupe ended up as a scale model.

Wendax

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May 25, 2025, 11:32:19 AM
A better view of the 1966 scale model on display at the Eisenach museum:
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