Eigenbau of the month: November 2016This month's featured car - is it an
eigenbau, a replica or a recreation? A bit of all, I think. It is a quite recent creation, built in 2002, but looking much older. And there is a reason for that, because its builder, Dr. Jürgen Messer, a retired veterinarian, wanted to bring back to life the only car ever built in his home town of Gettorf in Northern Germany. We had that original car before, the 1949 WUG:
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2012-41/solved-wendax-450-wug-(werner-uttermohlen-gettorf)/msg194803/#msg194803The WUG was built by
Werner
Utermöhlen, a toy manufacturer from
Gettorf. His wooden toy cars may have served as a styling model for the WUG, as can be seen on the second picture, showing a surviving Utermöhlen toy. Only two WUGs were ever built. Recently I came across some rare pictures of both cars, showing the black and white car already featured in the former puzzle, and the slightly differing dark car in the second last picture. Both cars were powered by a single-cylinder ILO 250 cc two-stroke engine. The WUG's bodywork was made of wood. The complete car weighed only 175 kg. The top speed was 60 km/h and 4.5 litres of gasoline brought you 100 km far.
The last picture shows a handbuilt model of the WUG, so it finally ended where its design started.