DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Ollie wrote:

Otto Mathé in his Gmünd!! Leading what looks like a Glöckler?

What's the story behind this picture?

Bootsy wrote:I believe so but it's such a ridiculous fee - why they didn't make it reasonable and encourage people I don't know

Because they hate their customers.

hot66 wrote:Is that a lad or a lass ?!

I would say that the answer is Yes.

yoda wrote:And to lower the tone ....

This plate is good in Swedish; DYR is the correct Swedish word for EXPENSIVE...

Kenyon wrote:How would you describe those wheels ^^^ Pretty unusual?

Not unusual enough...

Darren C wrote:Karvann Ghia anyone?

If that's the design he finally went for - just imagine the trash bin with all the discarded designs... Frightening thought...

Prototypes has never been not THAT hot...
Especially not those that never really made it into production - and no one can claim this one to be the prototype for the Cabriolet that came in -83.

KS wrote:

Park Distance Control

Great pic. By my count there are three guys screwing on indicators and two fitting mirrors and no-one doing much else. How did they manage to churn out millions of them!! Probably why Karmann ultimately went bust... Or... It's Sunday and they wanted some life in the picture, so they kidnapped a few...

This is not a "project". It is an excuse to create a replica of a 1967 soft window 911 S. And it will be marketed as a "all original and numbers matching" when the deed is done.
That is what the pricing suggests anyway...

Steve Graham wrote:I don't know if this has been posted before - but do not let anyone with a heart condition see this
https://youtu.be/C6R-gnbuqaE

That was a hotrod VW. They can be truly tasteless.
This one took the word tasteless to a whole new level.

http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161229/ad8b865c4ae4485faa1f3c197b3d0447.jpg In Sweden sometime after 1967 (we changed from driving on the left to the the right 3 sept 1967) and before 1972 (when we changed the license plates) in the vicinity of the city of Gothenburg. That driver has to explain t...

Any Alpina B3 will solve your problem.
I have a 3.3 2002 Touring. It's utterly stable up until 240km/h. After that you have both hands on the wheel.

And yes - they are hard to sell, so choose yours with care...

smallspeed wrote:We had a mustang for a week in the US - Not a bad car but pretty huge outside for the space you actually had inside..

Isn't that what America is all about?

73SJM wrote:

Darren65 wrote:

Who would drive a car with paint like that?

I would - happily. It takes years to get a patina like that...