The X---- Porsche cars

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It took 4 years to Fritz to complete the reconstruction during that period Falk Einmann and Arno Lindner died
Only Knut did see the restaured car before dying











This car was as I say before reconstructed in a much better way than it was originally in particular the interior is fro a real pre A Porsche instead of the original one

Idem for the engine who is to day a

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Sorry posted too fast again
The pre A dash board of Alexander Fritz car to day


compare to the original one


The same for the engine who is to day a real pre A Porsche

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To conclude we must admit that the Reinmann twins did a very good job to realise something who is not far from, a real 356 mainly if we think they did not had one to copy
I have read that Ferry was really interested as the Lindner is a real 4 seaters something Ferry always dream of as the work started in the 60's by the Swiss coachbuilder Beutler

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To day as promised the Dannenhauer & Stauss story

Gottfried Dannenhauer start his work life, shorthly before the 2nd WW as an employee of the Reutter Karosserie in Stuttgart

You all know Reutter for his contribution to the Porsche development in the 50's



In 38/39 Reutter work on the first prototypes of the VW Typ 38
Dannenhauer was in charge of developping the cabriolet version

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Difficult to know what happen to Gottfried Dannenhauer during the second World War but we find him back in 1950 in Stuttgart where together with his son Kurt Stauss (why not the same name I don't know may be he was a war orphan) they open a coachwork in Stuttgart close to the Reutter plant
Together with their normal coachwork activitie ie repair cars, they had the idea as many others Germans, to built a sport car on a VW chassis
To make all chances on their side they subcontract the design work to two engineers Oswald and Wagner
These 2 gents had studyied under the direction of Dr Professor Kamm a pionneer in sreamline design
The result was a very fluid and nice looking sport car certainly one of the best ever built in these years

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The first protoyypes and further on the series cars were largely hand built
Starting from a VW chassis




light metal sheets were hand formed over a wooden skeleton






Only the "suicide" doors and the front and back bonnets were pressed form by a subcontractor

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The back bonnet shape is very close to the Hebmuller VW cab one




As many of the contemporary German cars including the Porsche 356





the first Dannenhauer and Stauss cars had a split window windscreen

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Most of the trim was from VW origin except the seats and the door pannels who were specially made by Dannenhauer
The Bosch beams were similar to VW and Porsche period correct
The dash board was also coming from a VW split and therefore quite similar to the Porsche Pre A one

The rear lights were Hella ones also similar to the first Porsches onbes

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In 1953 with the introduction of the VW oval back window, the Dannenhauer & Stauss had some improvements
The windscreen became a one piece bended
and the back bonnet was smoothed with

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The back bonnet was also smoothed with the adoption od a simple longitudinal grill

The dashboard followed the move and became similar to the VW oval ie very far from the Porsche period correct

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To be continued to morrow

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Those early coach building photos are amazing! Thanks Gerard!

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On the contrary of Porsche, Dannenhauer and Stauss never had the capacity to develop the chassis and the engine
All the cars produced from 1950 to 1954 retain the original VW chassis without any modification
The first serie got nothing else than a straight forward 25 HP VW
Being lighter and better profiled than a standard beetle, the Dannenhauer were performing a little better but their road performances always remain far from what could be expected for a "sport car"
Push by their customer the second serie cars were fitted with Okrasa engines delivering around 40 HP

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or standard VW engine +Judson compressor