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Solved: Wendax 2435 - Marathon SK10
« on: December 16, 2017, 02:32:35 AM »
Rear visibility didn't have a high priority.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

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Re: Wendax 2435
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2017, 11:32:40 AM »
A Trippel SK10?

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Re: Wendax 2435
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2017, 11:38:51 AM »
No, but close enough to earn you a lock.

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Re: Wendax 2435
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2017, 07:41:41 PM »
These vehicles seem to have a rather complex history. I'll try Trippel 750 sports

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Re: Wendax 2435
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2017, 02:22:50 AM »
No, you are thinking in the wrong direction.

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Re: Wendax 2435
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2017, 02:59:09 AM »
Hmmmm Marathon Corsaire

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Re: Wendax 2435
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2017, 03:08:37 AM »
Just combine your two answers and you'll be there.

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Re: Wendax 2435
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2017, 02:15:18 PM »
Ok so its the French version of a Trippel SK10 called a Marathon Corsaire built by SIOP.

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Re: Wendax 2435
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2017, 04:13:04 PM »
Which makes it a ...

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Re: Wendax 2435
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2017, 04:26:06 PM »
Trippel Marathon I guess

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Re: Wendax 2435
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2017, 04:26:51 PM »
Not a Trippel

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Re: Wendax 2435
« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2017, 05:05:24 PM »
Marathon 750

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Re: Wendax 2435
« Reply #12 on: December 19, 2017, 02:18:19 AM »
Marathon is correct, 750 is not.

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Re: Wendax 2435
« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2017, 07:36:59 AM »
Marathon SK10

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Re: Wendax 2435
« Reply #14 on: December 19, 2017, 09:03:26 AM »
Finally!  ;)

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Re: Solved: Wendax 2435 - Marathon SK10
« Reply #15 on: December 19, 2017, 09:13:46 AM »
Yay!   Fascinating that a car that was copied so many times spent just months in series production.     Apparently they were made by Perl in Austria and a Dutch concern in Haarlem but I've only found fleeting references to these.   Anybody know anymore about those iterations?

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Re: Solved: Wendax 2435 - Marathon SK10
« Reply #16 on: December 19, 2017, 12:43:14 PM »
The original leaflet: