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Odd proportions.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2018, 10:46:56 AM »
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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2018, 11:40:14 AM »
is it a german one-off?

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2018, 12:21:54 PM »
Yes, German and probably a one-off.

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2018, 03:24:09 PM »
Is it based on a Wartburg?
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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2018, 04:52:08 PM »
based on a kleinschnittger?

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2018, 01:34:52 AM »
Is it based on a Wartburg?
I don't think that the chassis is Wartburg, but the body may contain some Wartburg parts.

based on a kleinschnittger?
Surely not

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2018, 03:05:45 AM »
up again

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2018, 06:32:25 AM »
Made in East Germany then ?

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2018, 10:00:29 AM »
Yes

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2018, 05:33:20 AM »
From the sixties?

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2018, 06:23:14 AM »
I don't have a year, but I'd say you should be right, perhaps from the late 50s.

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2018, 07:52:32 AM »
mechanical base known?

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2018, 09:08:17 AM »
Not mentioned, but I have an idea what it might be.

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2018, 10:35:42 AM »
Not mentioned, but I have an idea what it might be.
Is your idea an AWZ P70 mechanical base?
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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #15 on: December 11, 2018, 10:40:18 AM »
No

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #16 on: December 11, 2018, 04:05:48 PM »
looks to me like a Russian base

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #17 on: December 11, 2018, 05:30:49 PM »
Might be, but I rather think of another base

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #18 on: December 12, 2018, 06:35:26 AM »
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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2018, 03:29:34 AM »
No

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #20 on: December 13, 2018, 07:55:37 AM »
name of the builder mentioned before here on Autopuzzles?

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #21 on: December 13, 2018, 08:21:24 AM »
Yes

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #22 on: December 18, 2018, 06:54:29 AM »
Should not have revealed the source of the Fiat Glaser picture :)

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #23 on: December 18, 2018, 07:04:20 AM »
Yes, any idea about the base car? (The point is yours anyway)

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Re: Wendax 2733
« Reply #24 on: December 18, 2018, 02:59:04 PM »
Maybe another Fiat, but I don't have proof
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