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Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:28 pm

now do you know if this car would ever be for sale!?!?! it is amazing.

Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:21 pm

I don't believe that this car is ever for sale - there are round about 80 other cars which would be for sale until this car came back on the marked. ;-)

Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:13 am

now is this the only one still around in this model being the prototype? or did they make more then one?

Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:19 am

No - they just made 5 prototyps by Reuter and this is the only one wich survived. This car is known since the late 50 ths when it first showed up on the streets in Linz Austria.

Wed Apr 11, 2012 3:13 pm

wow thats amazing :shock: i wonder what kinda of money that would fetch?

Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:50 pm

now does anyone have the info of the owner of this piece. i would love to contact him about this amazing item and see it in person. thanks for the help

Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:53 pm

volks1500 wrote: now does anyone have the info of the owner of this piece. i would love to contact him about this amazing item and see it in person. thanks for the help

You should re-read page 1.

Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:26 pm

haha ok great thanks i will look

Sun Apr 22, 2012 6:43 pm

Wasn`t it Herber Kaes`?

Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:07 pm

From terry Shuler´s Then, now and forever.

Sat May 26, 2012 4:51 am

any pics of engine and rear bodywork? please?

Fri Nov 02, 2012 5:20 pm

No more news about this one? :roll:

Mon Nov 05, 2012 3:25 pm

A few weeks ago when Christian was at the Grossglockner with the 38, he visited mr. Pfeiffhofer from the famous Porsche Museum in Gmünd. He knew that car when it was on the Gmünd Roads and told him, that the car was used as a Service car by Porsche in the 1940s. When Porsche left Gmünd, the car was given to a member of the Porsche crew. Mr. Pfeiffhofer showed him the house where this guy lived and the Garage, where it was parked in the 1950s. Christian went to that house to find out if anybody knows more about that family. A young lady opend the door - she didn't had more informations but wanted to ask her uncle who might knows more about that...

What a luck, her uncle knew that car very well and also owns some very nice german military vehicles of the WW2. He noticed all interesting details of his life in a book so that we got all informations from direct hands:

The type 62 was build as one of two four-wheel- drive prototypes by Porsche, the body was build by Reuther. After the final testing, the car was left by Porsche constructions as a service car. In that time, it was modified in some details like the roof mechanism of a Type 82 or new designed sidewindows. In 1944, the Porsche company mooved from Stuttgart to Gmünd. In 1959, they moved back to Germany and left the car in Gmünd. An electric engeneer got the car and used it as a daily driver. Later, the car got technical problems with traction and in reason of non- existing spareparts, the car was brought to the junkyard.

Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:36 am

It's crazy how a car like this was discarded. Then again, I would imagine that not knowing how rare this car would eventually be.

Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:13 am

In the mid 1960s, two brothers from austrian city of Linz traveled into the austrian countyside to find KDF- cars and parts. They also visited another collector of WW2-vehicles in Gmünd. It was the uncle of the lady Christian met. He told them, that there was a modified Kübelwagen at the salvage yard of Gmünd. When the brothers saw that car, they knew what it is and bought it for 200 Ausrian Schilling. For the damaged original 4WD-Chassis it was unable to get any Spareparts so that the Chassis was chaged against one of a regular beetle. The original one was graved in the forest - a typical way of loosing old stuff in the 1960s.

The new owners went to that place and digged for it for a whole day - wihout any result.

In 1966, they started the restoration of the car. They used only the best stuff what they can get, many of them like the early type chassis or the exhaust were NOS-parts when they came onto the car.

In 1968, they finished the project and parked the car in their collectiion. They never had it on the road since that time.

In the mid 1990s, one of the brothers need money for his new private house building so that they decided to sell the car to another collector. In that time, I have heard about it at the first time, but I was too late. The new owner didn't want ti go with it in the public and kept it as a secret. Christian and me asked him several times about the car and it took years until he let us know about the car, but before we coul visit it, the man died.
Last weekend, Christian and me visited the oncle from Gmünd and one of the brothers who told us the story.

One of the brothers tried to buy the Type 62 back and he told us, that it was a hurt moment to sell it and that it even hurts him, when he heart that the car was sold. After our visitatiin he knows that the car is in best hands and that Christian is as crazy about vintage Volkswagen as he and his brother were. Finally, he gave Christian some original pars for free he didn't use for the renovation.

Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:31 am

Wow - thanks Bjorn!

....time to go digging in the Austrian woods, in other words...

Tue Nov 06, 2012 4:14 am

Well I have some Austrian Schillings in my house, probl around 200 schilling, I can pay....

Wed Nov 07, 2012 5:46 am

Great story Björn, thanks for sharing 8)

Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:59 pm

belgianboxer wrote: Great story Björn, thanks for sharing 8)
x2

Makes you wonder how many other prototypes that moved with Porsche from Stuttgart to Gmünd at the end of the war, finally ended up in some Austrian junkyard or were buried :?

Thanks, Björn!

Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:22 pm

Great story- thanks Björn.