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Andreas

I think it fair to say that there is no winner of this round. Congratulations on posting an absolutely legitimate puzzle that our combined five hundred years of knowledge could not get. We raise our glasses to you (mine containing only Diet Coke) and look to you for the next round.

Well done!

John W

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Guys, I was abroad so no access to another crop. Here is a wider crop and maybe we´ll have a lucky winner soon!

 

 

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I am in agreement with Stuart and, in my opinion, anybody guessing the car from that last cropped image should be awarded the Name That Car Lifetime Achievement Award in perpetuity! If it's a production car, I have no clue - if it isn't, well I still have no clue. :confused:

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Not Auto Union, but "inspired" indeed. This is an early post war car. I´m sure you guys will get it when you see the full picture, including the logo and location where it is on display.

 

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The crude window frame made me think of a tiny cockpit on a land speed record car, and the full wheel skirts shown above increase that feeling, but the rear view mirrors suggest it's use on high speed tracks with other cars competing with it, perhaps at Le Mans. My guess is late 1940s, but that's all I can come up with.

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Just a "simple" race car, no highspeed world record. Not 1940s - later (although the roots are before 1940). The exciting aluminum body could be exchanged from streamline to a standard formula car. Engine was made by a famous aviation company.

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ksmart,

 

its still on the Prototyp homepage:

: : PROTOTYP - PERSONEN. KRAFT. WAGEN. : :

--> Special Exhibitions --> All Exhibitions --> Stromlinie --> flip through the picture gallery

 

There is a little yellow "info"-button in the bottom left corner of each picture, there you will get the exact model.

 

Cheers, Andreas

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Some of you might remember the shots we published when the M9 was born. I took it with a pre-series model in Hamburg at the prototype museum (ha two prototypes).

 

It´s the special Veritas Meteor "Avus" Formula 2 from 1952. Paul Pietsch one owned it. Has a Heinkel built Veritas engine. Veritas was pretty succesful in racing right after WW2 until 1953. Their street cars were too expensive and later not competetive enough to safe the company from bancrupty (twice). After the first bancrupty Veritas moved to the old Auto Union Nürburgring racing facility where they ended with poor Ford and Opel engines in street cars, after BMW 328 engines were not available anymore and the Veritas Heinkel built race engines were too expensive for street cars.

 

Sad end of a great construction team with poor business heads!

 

So, over to ksmart who named the location and maker of the car!

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...Stuart, ksmart gave the hint with Veritas and Prototyp Museum - I was just a helping hand.

 

Ronald: Shall we do as John (Stedd) suggested? No winner this time, so an offer for everybody to bring the net photo? Maybe a "new face" will take the chance?

 

Cheers, Andreas

 

PS: Paul Pietsch died some days ago on March 31 at the age of 100 years.

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