Identify this for 1 point:
Steyn 50 Baby.
Quote from: milos62 on May 13, 2010, 10:31:06 AM
Steyn 50 Baby.
Whatever that is, it's not the car in the picture!
This is a STEYR 55 as "Krautwagen" , form there certainly is.
Hmmmm.. looks like the same car to me too, but it's not what I have it as!
Will have to do some further investigating.
Meantime it's locked for you.
No, I've checked further and have definitive proof it is what I have it as, and that's not a Steyr.
If you can prove otherwise then I'll have a re-think, but I have to stick to saying you have not identified it.
Can't actually find any reference at all to 'Steyr' in connection with this car. Don't know what website you are looking at, but don't think anyone would seriously call any beetle "Krautwagen". That would be more a generic term used perhaps mainly by Americans to describe any Beetle, or any German car come to that!
Here are some more pictures to help you on your way:
P.S. It's now unlocked again!
I found this -- Steyr - Volkswagen , 1939.
I agree it looks very similar, but not the same.
Compare the rear side window, the headlight position, the front wings. All different.
There may be a connection, of course, and they may even be built by the same coachbuilder.
But Steyr is not what I am looking for!
Simply Volkswagen then? Coachbuilder could be Reutter or even Steyr.
Volkswagen proto made by Zündapp
It's a VW of course, but coachbuilder is neither Reutter or Steyr.
perhaps Wendler?
KDF - Kohlruss Carosserie, Wien, Austria
You got it!
Well done.
My understanding is that this company apparently made shells for Steyr and used that shell on a Kuebel-chassis. Which would make a Kohlruss KdF.
A couple more pics:
There are pictures of the car fully restored as well.
On a magazine title:
I saw the fully restored car at the 2011 Bad Camberg veteran VW meeting:
Some pictures from when it was new:
:thumbsup:
Service on a Kohlruss: