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Whaddyacallit #285 - Solved! 1952 Haller Taifun
« on: February 23, 2009, 09:53:54 AM »
Ever seen this ?

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Re: Whaddyacallit #285
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2009, 12:03:01 AM »
Given the middle headlight, I'd be inclined to think it was a Tucker of some sort ... but I've been wrong before :(.



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Re: Whaddyacallit #285
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2009, 04:14:54 AM »
There was only one sort of Tucker built, and that was THE Tucker. No, sorry.
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Re: Whaddyacallit #285
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2009, 06:44:45 AM »
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Re: Whaddyacallit #285
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2009, 08:19:32 AM »
1952(?) Haller Taifun  :)

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Re: Whaddyacallit #285
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2009, 08:52:55 AM »
You are coming dangerously close to those 200 points, Arunas!
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Re: Whaddyacallit #285 - Solved! 1952 Haller Taifun
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2009, 02:02:25 AM »
...because we all like period pictures...
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Re: Whaddyacallit #285 - Solved! 1952 Haller Taifun
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2009, 03:57:26 AM »
Nice!
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Re: Whaddyacallit #285 - Solved! 1952 Haller Taifun
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2011, 05:28:03 PM »
Some more:

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Re: Whaddyacallit #285 - Solved! 1952 Haller Taifun
« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2011, 02:32:11 AM »
Very nice pics. The interesting thing is that in the initial pictures the Haller Taifun has German license plates (I guess it is a German-built car), while in the photos posted yesterday it obviously has been taken over to America.

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Re: Whaddyacallit #285 - Solved! 1952 Haller Taifun
« Reply #10 on: May 02, 2011, 06:53:59 AM »
another picture

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Re: Whaddyacallit #285 - Solved! 1952 Haller Taifun
« Reply #11 on: May 02, 2011, 12:48:28 PM »
I have a picture of the Haller Taifun, taken by a dutch tourist during his holiday in Austria. He spotted the car in the 1950s and he sent this picture to a classic car magazine in the 1980s to ask readers if they could identify the car for him. I will look it up.

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Re: Whaddyacallit #285 - Solved! 1952 Haller Taifun
« Reply #12 on: May 03, 2011, 04:15:59 PM »
Please! :P

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Galrot 20 = Haller Taifun streamliner
« Reply #13 on: September 17, 2016, 11:29:55 AM »
What's this and who made it for one point?
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Re: Galrot 20
« Reply #14 on: September 17, 2016, 12:05:42 PM »
It's the Haller Taifun Supercharged Porsche  Special from 1952-3, designed by Rudolph Haller

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Re: Galrot 20
« Reply #15 on: September 17, 2016, 12:11:51 PM »
It is indeed. I had not expected it to be guessed that fast. One point for you.  :)

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Re: Galrot 20 = Haller Taifun streamliner
« Reply #16 on: September 17, 2016, 12:13:31 PM »
Another picture.

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Re: Whaddyacallit #285 - Solved! 1952 Haller Taifun
« Reply #17 on: September 17, 2016, 12:33:28 PM »
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Re: Whaddyacallit #285 - Solved! 1952 Haller Taifun
« Reply #18 on: August 30, 2019, 02:50:22 AM »
Some pictures of the Haller Taifun turned up at an online auction. The car had lost its front bumper, the Perspex roof and its name plates by then. The license plate seems to be that of the US Forces in Germany.