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Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:31 pm

Has anyone seen or own one of these?

KdF Money Box

I would love to see some better picutres of one if anyone has any to show.

Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:57 pm

There were several different money boxes. This KdF version is the rarest in my opinion. Rarely offered for sale and usually very expensive. Sorry, I don't have any pics online.

Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:08 pm

desh wrote: Has anyone seen or own one of these?

KdF Money Box

I would love to see some better picutres of one if anyone has any to show.

Here's a cool picture I found in the gallery. These banks are very hard to find.

Paul

Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:15 pm

Can't be too hard to find! I just found SIX.

1 in first pic and FIVE in 2nd pic :shock:
Mike

Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:28 pm

Is that a little dial / display to tell you how much money you have saved or how much you need to buy your KdF Wagen?

cool!

:D

Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:37 am

If You want one of these let me know, a friend is selling one of these !
But You better sit well ! :lol: They are expencive ! :cry:

Guido :wink:

Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:45 am

Here's another one, can anyone explain the small dial, this one appears to say 2/65 ?

Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:56 am

2 Reichs mark and 65 pfennig !

like 2 dollar and 65 cents !

Regards
Guido

Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:03 am

tazm wrote: 2 Reichs mark and 65 pfennig !

like 2 dollar and 65 cents !

Regards
Guido

Oh! now I understand

so it's a way of keeping tabs on how much you have in your money box, without having to open it up and count it all manually

Well that's very clever isn't it!

thanks.

Sun Feb 01, 2009 12:14 am

desh wrote: tazm wrote: 2 Reichs mark and 65 pfennig !

like 2 dollar and 65 cents !

Regards
Guido

Oh! now I understand

so it's a way of keeping tabs on how much you have in your money box, without having to open it up and count it all manually

Well that's very clever isn't it!

thanks.

It´s even better. The boxes have a clever mechanic inside that updates the display automatically depending on the type of coin AND its opens automatically after 5 RM, because 5 RM was the price for one saving card stamp.

Sun Feb 01, 2009 12:26 am

kdf-wagen wrote: desh wrote: tazm wrote: 2 Reichs mark and 65 pfennig !

like 2 dollar and 65 cents !

Regards
Guido

Oh! now I understand

so it's a way of keeping tabs on how much you have in your money box, without having to open it up and count it all manually

Well that's very clever isn't it!

thanks.

It´s even better. The boxes have a clever mechanic inside that updates the display automatically depending on the type of coin AND its opens automatically after 5 RM, because 5 RM was the price for one saving card stamp.

The KdF-Wagen was going to be 990 ReichsMarks?

Take a while to get your car, if you saved 5RM a week

Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:32 am

kdf-wagen wrote:
It´s even better. The boxes have a clever mechanic inside that updates the display automatically depending on the type of coin AND its opens automatically after 5 RM, because 5 RM was the price for one saving card stamp.

Amazing! Germans sure are clever!

Say that a KdF beelte in todays value would be $ 9 900, and you'd save 50 bucks a week... Then it would take less than 4 years to own your own KdF... I would beleive the problem in the economy today is that people saves the first 50 bucks and then goes buying the car with the rest on credit...

The problem for the germans must have been that even the ones saved all the stamps didn't get a KdF, instead they build a kubel... Did ANYONE get a KdF by these stamps?

Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:38 am

[quote="johan_l"] kdf-wagen wrote:
Did ANYONE get a KdF by these stamps?

I read somewhere, I can't remember where that after the war a group of people sued Volkswagen and they had to honor the KdF savings program,
it was something like up to 600 DM towards the cost of your new Beetle, the offer was open until 1961 I think

Maybe someone knows more?

Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:55 am

Googled a bit, some links to the "sparkarte"... 990 RM seems correct...

http://www.kdf-wagen.de/lcode/index.php?cat=8
http://www.usmbooks.com/kdf_sparkarte.html
http://www.usmbooks.com/kdf_wagen_purchase.html
http://www.usmbooks.com/kdf_wagen_A-Z.html

Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:01 am

I heard that the average person at the time earnt about 30-50RM a week, so the cost of the car was about a years wages for someone.