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Solved: Wendax 2617 - TCA Formula Junior
« on: July 01, 2018, 01:52:50 AM »
Ran before parked.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.
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Re: Wendax 2617
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2018, 03:19:45 AM »
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Re: Wendax 2617
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2018, 06:27:14 AM »
1960s Italian?
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Re: Wendax 2617
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2018, 12:26:30 PM »
Yes, at least partly
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Re: Wendax 2617
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2018, 08:55:41 AM »
This thing is wierd! Looks like Fiat front-suspension front (and rear) and an engine suspended on a spaceframe, plus no apparent drive shafts! Is it jet powered? ??? ???
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Re: Wendax 2617
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2018, 11:47:16 AM »
Not jet-powered
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Re: Wendax 2617
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2018, 06:37:40 AM »
Geben Sie mir bitte einen Hinweis?  ;) :D
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Re: Wendax 2617
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2018, 01:11:49 PM »
There is a connection to a famous person.
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Re: Wendax 2617
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2018, 02:59:15 PM »
 Is the famous person Taffy Von Trips?
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Re: Wendax 2617
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2018, 03:04:07 PM »
and if so is it a TCA?
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Re: Wendax 2617
« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2018, 04:50:58 PM »
Spot on! It is the very first TCA Formula Junior from 1960. TCA stood for Trips-Colotti-Auto Union. In April of 1961 Erich Bode crashed the car at the Nürburgring and was killed. The car remained unrestored.
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Re: Solved: Wendax 2617 - TCA Formula Junior
« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2018, 05:08:04 PM »
It had very distinctive wheels …………………….
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