Solved: Wendax 1628 - VW 39

[Wendax]

An easy Rookie point.

For one point, please respond and identify this car exactly.

[Wendax]

It seems that there are no rookies around. So up it goes, a very easy expert point.

[Wendax]

Be serious, folks! I cannot move this one to the pros. There must be an expert around who might have seen a similar looking car in his life, so that he can place a guess. 

[Zerk]

I think it is Volkswagen number 1-00003, a pre-production car. It was a restored car, but suffered in a fire in Hamburg, along with several other collector cars.

[72Must]

One of the VW 39 series , only 14 were built & had stamped panels unlike the more handbuilt VW 38.
This car is the only survivor ,( just about !)from 39 & is currently being restored thankfully

[Wendax]

You are both right, but Zerk was first, and I guess he would have easily provided the VW39 denomination, if I had asked for it. Better luck next time, 72Must. 

It is the first car from the Raffay collection I know of to be restored after that tremendous fire:
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=14571.msg147202#msg147202

That's what it looked like before the fire: