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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #25 on: January 14, 2019, 11:41:38 AM »
No

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #26 on: January 14, 2019, 05:21:49 PM »
Yugoslav republic?

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #27 on: January 15, 2019, 02:37:23 AM »
No

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #28 on: January 21, 2019, 12:46:40 AM »
Belgian?

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #29 on: January 21, 2019, 02:27:08 AM »
Partially

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #30 on: January 21, 2019, 02:28:22 AM »
France
Germany
Britain
Spain
Switzerland
Italy (the body anyway)
Netherlands?


Scandinavia?

Sorry, it is partially Scandinavian as well.

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #31 on: January 21, 2019, 04:23:15 AM »
France
Germany
Britain
Spain
Switzerland
Netherlands?
Yugoslavia


Italian chassis and engine, body partially Belgian and partially Scandinavian.

Are these all established manufacturers?
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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #32 on: January 21, 2019, 04:25:31 AM »
Italian chassis,
engine is not Italian,
body is Belgian.

Two of the three participants are well-known.

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #33 on: January 21, 2019, 12:05:49 PM »
Volvo engine in a Fiat chassis, body by Vanden Plas ???
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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #34 on: January 21, 2019, 12:15:21 PM »
Volvo engine in a Fiat chassis, body by Vanden Plas ???

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #35 on: January 21, 2019, 12:42:54 PM »
Obscure Belgian one-off constructed using Lancia chassis and Volvo engine.

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #36 on: January 21, 2019, 12:48:37 PM »
Yes, just the coachbuilder needed now.

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #37 on: January 22, 2019, 11:00:37 AM »
Car was raced by Lambert Docq - but i don't know if he built the body.

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #38 on: January 23, 2019, 02:34:02 AM »
Car was raced by Lambert Docq - but i don't know if he built the body.
I don't know about the car's connection to Lambert Docq, but he is not the coachbuilder.

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #39 on: January 23, 2019, 02:48:56 AM »
To your knowledge, was the car used in competition?

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #40 on: January 23, 2019, 04:10:23 AM »
I don't know.

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #41 on: January 24, 2019, 12:55:47 PM »
I don't know.
In Belgian hillclimbs in the early sixties.

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #42 on: January 24, 2019, 01:14:22 PM »
Thanks for that information

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #43 on: January 25, 2019, 11:55:57 PM »
Still residing in Belgium at the time of the puzzle photo?

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #44 on: January 26, 2019, 12:56:58 AM »
Yes

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #45 on: February 01, 2019, 02:13:02 PM »
Coune or less known ?

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #46 on: February 01, 2019, 05:34:16 PM »
Less known I'd say, but featured on AutoPuzzles before.

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #47 on: February 05, 2019, 04:17:59 PM »
Cryns?

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #48 on: February 05, 2019, 05:03:07 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 2765
« Reply #49 on: February 05, 2019, 05:20:19 PM »
Built by Jacques d'Heur of  Méan for Lambert Dock?
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