About what is it? Quiz #467: Elfe & the winner of the quiz!

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Today we will reveal the answer to last weeks quiz, and of course, nominate a winner. But we will also tell you who has won the six-month competition!

Fist, the car in the photograph is indeed a reconstruction of an Elfe racing cyclecar. Not “a prewar car for crash test dummies” as Johan Vandenberghe said.

This cyclecar was built by Cyrille Verchambre, Marc Ménager and Pascal Zela from museum L'atelier des Pionniers of Gallardon. Gerd Klioba explained; “They built it around the original Anzani V-twin engine, which they had in storage." Henk Visscher added: “they heavily relied on period photography to rebuild this 1920/1921 sports cyclecar. Original Elfes were produced between 1919 and 1923 by Ateliers Defrance Frères (Vierzon), France, co-owned by Eugène Mauve, founder of the Bol d’Or.”

Fritz Hegemann added to this: they were “available as single-seater and tandem-two-seater. Aircooled 20°-V2-Anzani-engine with 1.100cc (some say 703cc, others 984cc), using a motorcycle-gearbox, a multi-plate-clutch and a chain-drive”. “In the August 1920, Le Mans Grand Prix de L’U.M.F. (273.6 Km,16 laps of 17.1Km), cars no. 1 & 2, both Elfe-Anzani, were driven by Andre Rousseau and Mauve. Neither finished,” as Clive Knott told us. Some of you also knew that this Elfe took part in the 1921 Gaillion Hillclimb. Clive also commented; “in 1922, Mauve founded the Bol D’or 24-hour race for vehicles less than 1100cc capacity with solo drivers.” Finally, Alan Spencer added; “from 1922 to 1924, Mauve built cyclecars in Levallois-Perret under his own name.”

This single seated Elfe cyclecar is “on show at Musée Atelier des Pionniers in Bailleau-Armenonville, France”, as Hendrix explained. You all did a pretty good job, But there can only be one winner. Congratulations Fritz Hegemann! The jury decided you gave the most complete answer. You receive the full 5 points! Thank you all for participating.

This Elfe is one of the cars that will be present during the fantastic Festival of Slowth event, which will be held the 2nd and 3rd of June 2018 in Crux-la-Ville, in the beautiful Burgundy. As the name already is saying, it is not an event for the fast cars but for the really slow ones. So you will see a real passion for small cyclecars and special mechanical inventions.

Now, we go over to the winner of the six-month competition, sposored by Hans Compter Rare Cars. Did you spend every Saturday rummaging through old motoring mags, scouring the internet and flicking yearbooks hoping to find that one picture for the past six months..? Then the moment you have been waiting for is finally here! This week we reveal the winners of the PreWarCar.com What is it? quizzes and the PostWarClassic.com Tough to crack car puzzles!

We have added up all the points that you gained in the past 26 weeks, and these are the results: 5th Place goes Fritz Hegemann with 49 points. 4th to Luc Ryckaert with 53 points. Henk Visscher makes it to the top-3 with 62 points. Very close with 63 points is Alan Spencer on the 2nd place. But..! The one and only Pre-War / Post-War quiz winner who was the only one who participated in all 24 quizzes and thus receives 9 bonus points for this, makes it to a grand total of 77 points no less. And that winner is… Gerd Klioba!

Congratulations Gerd! You will receive the famous PreWarCar.com and PostWarClassic.com T-shirt including a special badge. Apart from that, there is an additional price, sponsored by Hans Compter Automobiles plus the book Investing in cars by Vincent van der Vinne. Please send an e-mail to office @prewarcar.com with your address, so we can send you the prices.

Would you want to win a similar prize? We’ll continue our puzzle tradition on both our websites, and after another 6 months there’s another chance of becoming our respected car connoisseur. Just to remind you, we sum up the rules here once more. Participants will compete in a 6-month competition. So twice a year we will have a new winner for the last 24 quizzes (both prewarcar.com as well as postwarclassic.com). If you participate (giving an answer is enough) you will receive 1 point. When your answer is correct, you will receive 3 points. If we declare your answer to be the best and most complete, you will receive 5 points. In the end, you can miss 4 quizzes. So only the 20 best will count. If you participate in all 24 quizzes, you will get 9 bonus points.

Everyone starts again at zero, and we trust you all will keep enjoying our quizzes. We wish you all the best of luck!

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