LOCAL HERO
It’s only when you start looking at the amount of rear-engined, air-cooled coachbuilts that puttered out of the ’50s that you realise the scale of debt the automotive world owes to the creation of Dr. Porsche and Frau Volkswagen. Sure, a great many car snobs sneer at anything based on the humble Beetle’s underpinnings, but they tend to drive MGs, stink of pipe smoke and have tweed wives, so have no jurisdiction here.
We’re not just talking about the obvious things either, like Karmann Ghias and Porsches, but much rarer birds from European coachbuilders. Cars with exotic names such as Rometsch, Dannenhauer & Stauss and Beutler.
“some of the quirkiest worker bees outside of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory”
No doubt those are names all well-informed VolksWorld readers will be familiar with, but perhaps not so much
