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The number of cars built over the 5 years of their productiopn (1950-1954) is not known with certitude but should be in the range of 100
On these 100 around 20 still exist
In 2011 visiting Bob Van Elst BBT in Belgium I saw he had an unrestored D&S in his shop (the red car alongside the Denzel)

I discover recently he had even 2 off

These 2 cars were sold sometimes after in the US and are certainly fully restaured to day

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When Gottfried Dannenhauer and his son Kurt started their business in 1950 VW accepted to deliver them bare chassis
In 1953 VW presented at the Frankfurt carshow their own "sport car" the VW Karmann Ghia

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VW inform Dannenhauer they will no longer accept to deliver them bare chassis.
To continue to produce cars Dannenhauer had no other alternative than ask the potential customers to come with an used beetle from which they will get the base chassis
Of course the selling price already high became uncompetitive
When the VW Karman enter in large voloume production by end 1954 this was the end of the Dannenhauer and Stauss VW based cars

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But luckily the end of the Dannenhauer cars was not the death of the company
Gottfried and his son were clever enough to diversify there company
In the 1951 serie of pics taken in the plant I have found these ones

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When I first saw the pic with many beetles I first thought these cars were there for their chassis
But after reflexion and seing the others I realise that :
These pics were taken in 1951 in the first years of the company at a time where VW was still delivering bare chassis and therefore these VW were there simply for maintenance or body repair
On the last pic you see a guy polishing bondo on a beetle wing which confirm that the Dannenhauer and Stauss company in addition to building exception cars, was also a large coachwork company idea confirm by the others pics showing cars of other make including a 356 Pre A

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Before to see what happened to the Dannenhauer and Stauss company after they stop manufacturing VW based cars some more infos on these VW based cars
Out of the 100 + cars most of them were cabriolets

Some of these cabriolets were fitted with specially design hardtops

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Yet another wonderful series. I've learned an incredible amount hanging around here with gerard.
~Vance

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Before going ahead some photos of some of the to day's fully restaured Dannenhauer and Stauss

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Yesterday I posted that

To day by luck found that


So we are more clever to da
y
We know the owner was a Wiesbaden tobacco producer, and more important we have a pic
But is this cat still around to day ?

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Some more Dannenhauer to day

First a complete row in Hessich Oldendorp

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Some more

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The story of the VW Wolfburg museum black D&S

Before the crash in May 2005









In May 2005 this the own Director of the VW Wolfsburg museum took this car to a rallye in Niederspach for demonstration and unfortunately cr

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Sorry made two mistakes the date was July 2005 not May and the city Niedersachen

anyway the black D&S was seriously damaged crashing into a Ford Van


Luckily this car had been completely rebuilt by the VW Museum but repainted in light blue (may be its original color ?)

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another photo of the VW Museum D&S after the crash


and a last pic of Dutch D&S in its countryside

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At the time (1954/1955) when Dannenhauer and Stauss were stopping to manufacture cars DKW (Dampf Kraft Wagen in German which could be translated into "steam vehicles constructor") a company member of the Auto Union group (DKW, Horsch, Wanderer,and Audi)






was producing a small sedan car called DKW Sonderklasse 3 = 6

powered by a 3 two strokes cylinders hence the name 3 two stroke cylinders equal 6 four strokes cylinders