Author Topic: Solved: Wendax 331 - Mercedes-Benz 320 Cabriolet Wendler (Read 2469 times)

Wendax · « **on:** September 01, 2011, 02:40:19 AM »

Picture of an exhibition.

For one point, please respond and identify this car and its coachbuilder.

Wendax · « **Reply #1 on:** September 08, 2011, 02:54:17 AM »

Delorean · « **Reply #2 on:** September 08, 2011, 07:13:24 AM »

Ford?

Wendax · « **Reply #3 on:** September 08, 2011, 07:20:22 AM »

That would have been too easy, wouldn't it?

Delorean · « **Reply #4 on:** September 08, 2011, 11:16:25 AM »

Quote from: Wendax on September 08, 2011, 07:20:22 AM

That would have been too easy, wouldn't it?

Sometimes life shouldn't be so difficult, hey! You never knew ...

Is it German then?

Wendax · « **Reply #5 on:** September 08, 2011, 11:57:53 AM »

Yes, it is German.

Siata1 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 11, 2011, 08:53:57 AM »

Mercedes 3,2 litre Cabriolet by Wendler, Reutlingen. Reutlingen Motorschau 1949.

SACO · « **Reply #7 on:** September 11, 2011, 09:59:11 AM »

Or Fiat 1400 by the same Wendler ?

Wendax · « **Reply #8 on:** September 11, 2011, 01:11:31 PM »

Quote from: Siata1 on September 11, 2011, 08:53:57 AM

Mercedes 3,2 litre Cabriolet by Wendler, Reutlingen. Reutlingen Motorschau 1949.

Absolutely correct, another point for you.

grobmotorix · « **Reply #9 on:** October 08, 2016, 05:29:11 AM »

Who knows this car?

One point for a reasonable year the basis car and the correct coachbuilding company.

Lorenzo721 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 08, 2016, 08:45:59 PM »

Is it a postwar German re-body of a prewar car?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #11 on:** October 09, 2016, 02:21:55 AM »

Exactly!

And the coachwork was executed by a rather known company.

Lorenzo721 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 09, 2016, 03:57:46 AM »

I'll try Spohn...

grobmotorix · « **Reply #13 on:** October 09, 2016, 04:01:37 AM »

Good guess, but no...

~~Spohn~~

Lorenzo721 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 09, 2016, 05:29:35 AM »

Wendler, a Mercedes-Benz 320 which the company rebodied in 1950?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #15 on:** October 09, 2016, 10:18:05 AM »

LOCKED for you!

Wendler bodywork - yes!

Mercedes - yes!

320 - according to my source, NO

EDIT 10.10.2016: Lorenzo721 seems to have been right here!

Three guesses for you to find out the correct chassis...

Lorenzo721 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 09, 2016, 06:00:09 PM »

I have it as a 320, but on closer inspection that could indeed be wrong, as the chassis appears much too short.

I'll try 230 then.

grobmotorix · « **Reply #17 on:** October 10, 2016, 01:08:09 PM »

320
230

Two more guesses...

Lorenzo721 · « **Reply #18 on:** October 10, 2016, 06:33:18 PM »

grobmotorix · « **Reply #19 on:** October 11, 2016, 01:25:46 PM »

Exactly!

Your point...

grobmotorix · « **Reply #20 on:** October 11, 2016, 01:27:30 PM »

A second photo:

Wendax · « **Reply #21 on:** October 12, 2016, 02:27:01 AM »

Identical looks to this one: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2011-39/solved-wendax-331-mercedes-benz-320-cabriolet-wendler/

Lorenzo721 · « **Reply #22 on:** October 12, 2016, 03:23:55 AM »

Just as I hate mysteries, can anyone clarify if this is a 170 or a 320? There seems to be a lot of confusion about this.

grobmotorix · « **Reply #23 on:** October 12, 2016, 12:30:28 PM »

The source was a 1949 cinema newsclip that featured some exhibits of the 1949 Reutlinger motor show in Germany.

They explicitely named it a Mercedes 170...

But when I have a look at the other puzzle I am quite sure now, that my source was wrong

Thank god Lorenzo721 named also the 320.

So might some administrator please merge those two puzzles?

Wendax · « **Reply #24 on:** October 12, 2016, 12:36:11 PM »

Done!

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Author Topic: Solved: Wendax 331 - Mercedes-Benz 320 Cabriolet Wendler (Read 2469 times)