Author Topic: Solved: Wendax 3827 - Lloyd Alexander fiberglass coupe 1957 (Read 1350 times)

Wendax · « **on:** May 22, 2022, 02:39:38 AM »

From the era of fins.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

Wendax · « **Reply #1 on:** May 29, 2022, 02:41:29 AM »

FrontMan · « **Reply #2 on:** May 29, 2022, 05:02:35 AM »

ZAZ Zaporozhets 965?

Wendax · « **Reply #3 on:** May 29, 2022, 05:18:51 AM »

Shamrock 2 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 29, 2022, 05:47:07 AM »

Lloyd Arabella rebodied

Wendax · « **Reply #5 on:** May 29, 2022, 06:14:31 AM »

Not an Arabella, but a Lloyd

D-type · « **Reply #6 on:** May 29, 2022, 11:49:16 AM »

Llloyd Sportcoupé ?

Wendax · « **Reply #7 on:** May 29, 2022, 12:24:03 PM »

You could describe it as such, but as it probably didn't have a name (at least I couldn't find one) please identify it by telling me:
- the base car,
- the builder,
- and what is special about it.

D-type · « **Reply #8 on:** May 30, 2022, 10:35:44 AM »

Base car: Lloyd 600
Builder - no idea: Hans Graz?
Special: Modified for a disabled or handicapped driver?

Wendax · « **Reply #9 on:** May 30, 2022, 12:26:14 PM »

Quote from: D-type on May 30, 2022, 10:35:44 AM

Base car: Lloyd 600

Almost right

Quote from: D-type on May 30, 2022, 10:35:44 AM

Builder - no idea: Hans Graz?

No

Quote from: D-type on May 30, 2022, 10:35:44 AM

Special: Modified for a disabled or handicapped driver?

No

D-type · « **Reply #10 on:** May 30, 2022, 02:53:41 PM »

Based on a Lloyd Alexander?

Wendax · « **Reply #11 on:** May 30, 2022, 03:02:22 PM »

D-type · « **Reply #12 on:** May 30, 2022, 03:12:43 PM »

Next part, a German body builder?

Wendax · « **Reply #13 on:** May 30, 2022, 03:17:04 PM »

Yes, built in Germany.
A small hint: think simple and straightforward.

Alfa_Japan · « **Reply #14 on:** May 31, 2022, 04:40:31 AM »

Johannes Rudy from Delmenhorst?

Wendax · « **Reply #15 on:** May 31, 2022, 06:01:14 AM »

Alfa_Japan · « **Reply #16 on:** June 01, 2022, 04:51:37 AM »

Built by Lloyd themselves?

Wendax · « **Reply #17 on:** June 01, 2022, 05:03:36 AM »

Yes, or at the general Borgward development department
That leaves the question what was special about this car..

FrontMan · « **Reply #18 on:** June 01, 2022, 02:08:17 PM »

To a Frua design, but built with glass-fibre?

Wendax · « **Reply #19 on:** June 01, 2022, 05:08:41 PM »

I don't know of a Frua involvement. I think it was an in-house design, but the special thing about it is that the body was made of fiberglass. That sums it up and here's a point to you.

Wendax · « **Reply #20 on:** November 27, 2022, 11:56:37 AM »

I have some more information about this Lloyd:
Three specimens were built, the design was by Borgward's in-house designer Roberto Hernandez, the pattern was built by Ingenieurbüro Bach & Kaiser and the body was fabricated at Bayer in Uerdingen. A series of 200 cars was planned by Borgward, but rigidity and durability problems of the polyester body led to an abrupt end of the project, as one of the cars was tested by Lloyd's experimental office and had to be scrapped after just 13,000 km.

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Author Topic: Solved: Wendax 3827 - Lloyd Alexander fiberglass coupe 1957 (Read 1350 times)