Author Topic: Solved: PN #1167 -- Tornax Rex rebodied by Hans Tröller, 1950s (Read 1587 times)

pnegyesi · « **Reply #25 on:** October 21, 2018, 11:55:04 AM »

oh yes

Tröller appeared on AP previously with an OPel 1200 rebody.

Now for the donor. Let me give you a lock for 5 attempts. Good luck!

Wendax · « **Reply #26 on:** October 21, 2018, 12:09:29 PM »

I think the previously puzzled Opel wasn't made by Tröller. Simsa refers in his book just to Tröller as one of those coachbuilders offering rebodies for old chassis. So this is probably the first real Tröller body here.

Now for the base of this one: you said that Adler was too easy, so it must be a more obscure base car, at least in Germany. Is it a German base car at all?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #27 on:** October 21, 2018, 01:59:26 PM »

It is a small-scale German car

Wendax · « **Reply #28 on:** October 21, 2018, 04:25:06 PM »

From the 1930s?
Röhr Junior?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #29 on:** October 21, 2018, 09:45:52 PM »

1930s, not a Röhr

Wendax · « **Reply #30 on:** October 22, 2018, 02:11:25 AM »

NAG-Voran?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #31 on:** October 22, 2018, 06:32:44 AM »

no, you really have to think "outside the box"

Wendax · « **Reply #32 on:** October 22, 2018, 08:37:49 AM »

Was a race car chassis used?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #33 on:** October 22, 2018, 12:53:15 PM »

Wendax · « **Reply #34 on:** October 22, 2018, 01:13:03 PM »

A delivery van chassis?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #35 on:** October 22, 2018, 02:01:18 PM »

Wendax · « **Reply #36 on:** October 22, 2018, 02:57:50 PM »

So built on an ordinary car chassis by an obscure maker?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #37 on:** October 23, 2018, 06:16:56 AM »

I'd not call this car "ordinary" and the brand isn't "obscure". But its body looked significantly different

Wendax · « **Reply #38 on:** October 25, 2018, 07:39:36 AM »

Was the base car a military vehicle, like VW Schwimmwagen, Trippel SG6 or Tempo G1200?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #39 on:** October 25, 2018, 10:12:19 AM »

no. Let's say the brand was not obscure, it was just less well-known.

gte4289 · « **Reply #40 on:** October 25, 2018, 12:53:08 PM »

Quote from: pnegyesi on October 21, 2018, 11:55:04 AM

Let me give you a lock for 5 attempts. Good luck!

Still locked?

Wendax · « **Reply #41 on:** October 25, 2018, 01:21:04 PM »

Not so many German less-known companies around that built front-engined, four-wheeled cars in the 1930s. Tornax?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #42 on:** October 25, 2018, 03:42:27 PM »

Indeed

This is based on a Tornax Rex, two very well deserved points for you

Wendax · « **Reply #43 on:** October 25, 2018, 04:26:02 PM »

Thank you, never heard of a rebodied Tornax before.

pnegyesi · « **Reply #44 on:** October 25, 2018, 11:33:35 PM »

Just looking at the sheer number of German coachbuilders I found during the last two years, it is overwhelming. And it seems only the surface has been scraped both in Germany and Austria. Now that I have finished my thesis (anybody interested in reading a 286-page essay on how the automobile was curated in the 20th century in German and Austrian museums

?) I plan to do some research on these in the next few years.

Wendax · « **Reply #45 on:** October 26, 2018, 02:05:24 AM »

Great! Looking forward to your unearthing.

barrett · « **Reply #46 on:** October 26, 2018, 11:45:45 AM »

Quote from: pnegyesi on October 25, 2018, 11:33:35 PM

Just looking at the sheer number of German coachbuilders I found during the last two years, it is overwhelming. And it seems only the surface has been scraped both in Germany and Austria. Now that I have finished my thesis (anybody interested in reading a 286-page essay on how the automobile was curated in the 20th century in German and Austrian museums ?) I plan to do some research on these in the next few years.

A book, in the English language, on small German coachbuilders would be very welcome. In fact, any English-language book that covers the lesser-known German cars would be a real must-have for any serious car enthusiast.

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Author Topic: Solved: PN #1167 -- Tornax Rex rebodied by Hans Tröller, 1950s (Read 1587 times)