willeica Posted January 6, 2018 Share #10601 Â Posted January 6, 2018 Advertisement (gone after registration) Not French. I'll give another clue. It has two badges on the front, one of which is still in use today. Â William Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 6, 2018 Share #10602  Posted January 6, 2018 Audi 225 Roadster from 1935?  Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 6, 2018 Share #10603 Â Posted January 6, 2018 If not Audi, perhaps the Wanderer, which might have had a DKW badge as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
willeica Posted January 6, 2018 Share #10604 Â Posted January 6, 2018 Wilson and Stuart, you are both getting close. Not an Audi nor a Wanderer, so it must be......? Â I will allow some latitude on the model as there two very similar models in a sequence of models. This one has a cabriolet drop top. Â It is a lovely car, although my photo is poor and does not do it justice. Â William Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 6, 2018 Share #10605  Posted January 6, 2018 I thought I knew that actual car from the colours, as I have seen an Audi/Auto Union/Wanderer/Horch 225 in exactly those colours. It was sold under various banners and was an amalgam of parts from all the foregoing makes.  Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
willeica Posted January 6, 2018 Share #10606 Â Posted January 6, 2018 It is in that family. Â William Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanellus Posted January 7, 2018 Share #10607 Â Posted January 7, 2018 Advertisement (gone after registration) DKW F8? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
willeica Posted January 7, 2018 Share #10608  Posted January 7, 2018 I'll give it to you. It is a DKW and is probably an F7, but the 5, 7 and 8 are all quite similar.   Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!  Your turn.  William Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!  Your turn.  William ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=3434637'>More sharing options...
vanellus Posted January 8, 2018 Share #10609  Posted January 8, 2018 Thank you William. At a location in Germany called Alaska  one can see this peace of scrap:Special design details allow identification. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=3435545'>More sharing options...
willeica Posted January 8, 2018 Share #10610 Â Posted January 8, 2018 It looks like the remains of a military jeep or truck. Â William Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 8, 2018 Share #10611  Posted January 8, 2018 (edited) It is overhead valve and coil sprung so not a Willys/Ford Jeep. There was a German made military small utility vehicle called a DEEK made in the 1950's but I have no idea of its spec. Its name might suggest a DKW 2 stroke engine, which the photo certain isn't.  Wilson  PS Could it be a Wolseley Mudlark? Edited January 8, 2018 by wlaidlaw Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 8, 2018 Share #10612  Posted January 8, 2018 Most certainly something utilitarian. It's owner needs to do just a touch of repair. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanellus Posted January 8, 2018 Share #10613 Â Posted January 8, 2018 Not a Wolseley, Wilson, but it was a really mudlark. A hint:Obviously a light short-bonnet all-wheel driven truck. But where is the drive-shaft in the wheels center? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 8, 2018 Share #10614  Posted January 8, 2018 I think it must be an early Unimog with portal axles.  Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanellus Posted January 8, 2018 Share #10615  Posted January 8, 2018 You are right Wilson, it´s an Unimog S404, built 1955 - 1980.  Günter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 8, 2018 Share #10616  Posted January 8, 2018 Portal axles were the cause of some rather red faces at a company I was an owner of. One of our racing car clients, was also a very keen wildfowler. It was difficult in winter to get to the place in the Suffolk marshes, where they stored their wildfowling punt. He had the bright idea of buying an ex-military, forward control 101 Land Rover and fitting Portal axles to get extra wading depth. He bought a Land Rover portal axle hub kit made in New Zealand, which arrived with no instructions. No problem we thought. If we can rebuild Ferrari V12's, how difficult can fitting a portal axle kit to a Land Rover be? We will just need some large spanners and a big hammer. We fitted the new hubs and drive shafts, started up the Land Rover, put it in first gear and set off backwards! We had completely forgotten that fitting the portal hubs, where the drive shaft turns a gear at the top of the hub, which in turn drives a gear below it, connected to the wheel hub, thus reversing the rotation of the wheels, so you also have to turn the differential through 180º, to reverse the drive to each hub. Talk about looking like idiots!  Anyway here is your next car. This one, unless you know of it, may puzzle you for some time. It is quite rare.  Wilson     Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=3436075'>More sharing options...
John Z. Goriup Posted January 8, 2018 Share #10617  Posted January 8, 2018 (edited) '57 oir '58 Denzel - Porsche.  When I was growing up in post-war Vienna we lived a few blocks from Denzel's Werkstatt, where he was creating his little Porsche-powered hot-rods atop VW chassis, and frequently rode my then-new Italian racing  bicycle that I had made look exactly like the one Gino Bartali rode,  hung around his shop as an intensly interested but not always welcomed visitor and pestered Wolfgang D. After a while of hanging around the shop I guess he warmed up a little and maybe even got used to me being there, to the point that he even occasionally had me ride to the nearest bierstube - it was called Rottemsteiner's, if I recall correctly  - to bring him back some beer in a 1/2-liter tin plated beaker that had a lid with a handle which was connected with a tiny chain on it, and as a reward even gave me a few Groschen so I could get myself a 'Rollmops' ( rolled-up marinated herring with pickle ).............my absolute facorite snack of all time.  My God, how I miss those days..................been back to Vienna dozens of times, on business and pleasure visiting old schoolfriends, but those times are well & truly gone forever,  I desperately hope I'm right, because if I'm not I'll feel very foolish.  JZG Edited January 9, 2018 by John Z. Goriup 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 9, 2018 Share #10618  Posted January 9, 2018 John,  I had not banked on someone growing up close to Wolfgang Denzel's factory in Vienna. They were a bit more sophisticated than many other VW specials, in that they used a lightweight tubular space frame chassis in place of the heavy pressed steel VW floor pan/chassis, which contributed to their very low weight. Most did not use Porsche engines (probably too expensive) but a home brewed version using 1200/1300/1500/1600 barrels on a VW crankcase but with steel crank and rods in place of the VW cast iron ones, plus a pair of gas flowed/big valve heads. They still used VW's swinging axle rear and trailing arm front suspensions. In effect they were a poor man's Porsche 550 Spyder and their official name was "The Denzel Spyder". This model was made from 1957 to 1960, when around 65 had been made. The factory was then given over to assembling BMW-Isetta 600 flat twin 4 wheel bubble cars, when BMW switched to the more modern 700. There are only about 4 or 5 left working. This one was on display and then for sale at a Gooding auction I went to. It did not sell. I guessed the reserve was around $60,000 which even though it is a pretty car and had been quite nicely restored, was too much for a 1300 cc car, that did not have FIA papers for competition use. I like the stylised WD badge on the front.  Your turn.  Wilson   Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 1 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/119687-name-this-car/?do=findComment&comment=3436168'>More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 9, 2018 Share #10619 Â Posted January 9, 2018 I never would have guessed it, having not even seen a photo, but I would have guessed rear engine (possibly air cooled), European, mid to late '50s,possibly with Porsche influence. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 9, 2018 Share #10620  Posted January 9, 2018 In the late 1960's I had a friend who did competition grass-tracking, using a beach buggy. He was using a number of1900 VW transporter engines, which he kept blowing up. At the beginning of the 1970 season, he told me he was changing engines as he had picked up three new ones cheap. I asked what they were. He replied: "Oh they are those funny 4 cam 4 cylinder Porsche things," meaning the Typ 547 Mk.2 2 litre Carrera engines. I gulped and asked him if he knew what they were worth, at the time about £3000 each or more. He said he had only paid £1,000 for all three. I told him to sell them and buy himself a couple of 2.2L 911S engines from accident damaged 911's with their 5 speed box for around £1,000 each and pocket the balance, which he did.  We used to use these 547/2 engines in our Porsche 904GTS before we got a 904-6GTS. From memory, about 10 years ago, it was £30,000 just for a rebuild of the 547 engine. They are very fragile and if you race them, using 7500 RPM regularly, they need frequent rebuilds. You can now buy new ones again but.......at $160,000 each.  Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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