Identify this odd looking VW based vehicle.

[xeno]

Not my car or my video. I found this while being board on youtube.



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Currenlty Corralled:
1952 Crotch Cooler Deluxe (US specs delivered to Stuttgart, Germany GI.)
1955 Early (Competition Motors - Hollywood, California)
1974 Thing (US specs - Mexicanos)
2008 Rabbit S (Wolfsburg DE)
2012 Golf TDI Tech Package (Wolfsburg DE)

[pastellgreen]

This is not from 1951.

[usariemen]

Reminds me of the Tonfeld convertible.
That was made by an east german plumber as a one of Porsche-like creation.
I´d say this is also a one of build of a creative private handyman who wanted to have a "modern" looking vert in the mid or late 50s.
Some parts may be older but I´d say the build is from the late 50s.

The rear end looks too "american" for my taste but still a cool ride.
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[xeno]

Yea the speedo and oval clock/speaker grill are not. But who knows when that was added?
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Currenlty Corralled:
1952 Crotch Cooler Deluxe (US specs delivered to Stuttgart, Germany GI.)
1955 Early (Competition Motors - Hollywood, California)
1974 Thing (US specs - Mexicanos)
2008 Rabbit S (Wolfsburg DE)
2012 Golf TDI Tech Package (Wolfsburg DE)

[usariemen]

[Rich's 50]

UGLY!!! but pretty cool

[pbaptist]

Phil is trying to found out what it is for many years. He contacted Dannenhauer, but they didn't made it, he contacted drews, but also they didn't made it.

I also believe it is selfmade.

Here is a (bad) picture of the ID plate

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1* Karmann Ghia Coupe (1966 Teak)
2* Karmann Ghia Convertible (1958, 1971)
4* Rometsch Lawrence (nr 534, 555, 558 and 561)

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Karmann-Ghia Collectibles database

[peter schepens]

Maybe made in the Kaiserlauteren karrosserieschool. The door handles are like on the Rometsch banana's and BMW from the late 40's. Greetings.
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Zelensis, glassfibre body made in Belgium , disigned and built on a VW platform About 25 body's built.
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[tisius]

I like the front, hate the rear...but a cool find though. Looks like a home build, not really coach build, although nicely done.
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[_Trevor_]

Just a wild ass guess here... but does anyone think the body started out as a Denzel? Look at the rear opening of the cabin - it goes straight across like a Denzel. Check out the front hood and engine lid (with hump added) and the rear end between the fins. Maybe it was a wrecked Denzel and the owner added his own custom touches: moved headlights outboard, elongated body with rear fins, suicide doors, different windshield frame, etc.

I'd like to see the welding of the body from the inside/underside.

Is there a book in Germany like we have here in the US regarding homemade specials: Trend Book 178 by Bob Rolofson?

The owner should get in touch with the Prototype Museum to see if they can offer additional assistance.

Patrick - Were any Denzels made of steel instead of aluminum? DK9? The owner said it had a Kubelwagen engine in it, weren't the early Denzels based upon a Kubelwagen chassis?

Cool car, regardless what it started out as!!!

Added by edit:

I found these pics in the gallery of Samba member: 2003nbc.

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[pbaptist]

[Jacks]

[Scorpion_FRL]

this car is also a prototype of somsort. I don't know any details on it. But it has some resemblens with the other car. split windows suicide doors..

[Wiggy]

[peter schepens]

[Scorpion_FRL]

nice collection to bad what happend to the porsches upstairs.

to bad the battery of my phone and camera died after 15 pict.

[Björn Schewe]

This car is just a simply selfmade bodied cars based on Volkswagen in the 1950s. Nothing more. I can't imginge that even "experts" think that this car has anything to do with one of the legendary coaches like Dannenhauer & Stauss or Denzel. For me it Looks like one of the creations, students build at the coachbuilding School in Kaiserslautern. If you ask me, I would say that the cas is based on a KDF Type 82 Chassis, because this was the usual Basement for cars like that in the early times. The chassisnumber on the ID-plate is a "TP"-Number which is typical for re-registrated vehicles.

There is no proportinal line in design so there can't be a profissional automobile Designer behind that car.

The handle the guy is talking about is not a special part casted by Dannenhauer & Stauss and even the Story of the KDf-Propaganda-Engine sounds funny - in the Archive of Volkswagen, the enginecodes were not registered seperately so no one could find out the matching chassisnumber for an engine.

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Whatever happend to this car?????