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Solved: Wendax 2172 - Karl Busch driving Porsche Special of Rolf Brandt
« on: February 17, 2017, 02:22:58 AM »
At high speed.

For one point, please respond and identify car and driver.
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Re: Wendax 2172
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2017, 01:50:53 AM »
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Re: Wendax 2172
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2017, 07:35:18 AM »
Some kind of postwar Eigenbau, I presume?
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Re: Wendax 2172
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2017, 04:33:52 PM »
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Re: Wendax 2172
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2017, 05:56:04 PM »
anything to do with Borgward?
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Re: Wendax 2172
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2017, 07:45:33 PM »
forget previous question - it's the Brandt-Porsche 1.5 litre built and raced by Rolf Brandt in 1954
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Re: Wendax 2172
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2017, 03:25:43 AM »
It is Porsche-based, but I have a different name and a slightly different year. I can't exclude the possibility that the owner changed, so can you prove your guess?
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Re: Wendax 2172
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2017, 07:30:18 AM »
The Brandt- Porsche is mentioned a couple of times on the Racing Sports car site,  racing in 1954 at Halle and Rostock and driven by Rolf Brandt, - so  I know it exists. I have a photo - source unknown - of this car, labelled the Brandt-Porsche 1.5 litre. I put two and two together .................
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Re: Wendax 2172
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2017, 07:38:46 AM »
there is a further photo of it racing at Nurburgring in 1954 on the fantastic Revs Digital Library - Stanford University site. Search under Brandt-Porsche Special.
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Re: Wendax 2172
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2017, 02:23:35 PM »
You got me totally convinced, which earns you a point.

One more point on offer, if you can tell me who was the driver in the puzzle picture. Locked for you.
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Re: Wendax 2172
« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2017, 07:15:00 PM »
I can find Rolf Brandt driving it throughout 1954, previously he seems to have driven a Porsche and one of Richard Trenkel's cars in 1953. The trail however goes cold from 1955 onwards .... until that is, I spotted it, unidentified, in the background of a photo of Tak's Maserati in the 1956 ADAC 1000kms at Nurburgring. (Revs Lib Stanford University again!)
Its number is hard to make out, but I think it is 36. If so, the drivers were Karl Busch and Karl Schwaneburg.  I hope one of them is the driver in your photo.

Note to self .. must get out more.
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Re: Wendax 2172
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2017, 02:42:05 AM »
Quote from: tobytwirl on February 26, 2017, 07:15:00 PM
Its number is hard to make out, but I think it is 36. If so, the drivers were Karl Busch and Karl Schwaneburg.  I hope one of them is the driver in your photo.
Karl Busch is correct, another point for you.

Quote from: tobytwirl on February 26, 2017, 07:15:00 PM
Note to self .. must get out more.
No, weather isn't good enough. No veteran cars out there.  ;)
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Re: Solved: Wendax 2172 - Karl Busch driving Porsche Special of Rolf Brandt
« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2017, 12:09:31 PM »
The full picture:
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