This vehicle is a Volkswagen KdF car of the Type 82e, one of the rarest and most historically significant variants associated with the origins of the Beetle. The KdF program (“Kraft durch Freude”) was a central project of the Nazi regime, conceived to provide a low-cost automobile for the German population at a target price of… Read More War veteran: 1943 KDF Typ 82e
The history of Volkswagen during the Second World War and in the years immediately following is complex and has many dark sides or in any case little known if not by the greatest experts of the brand. One of these is the vehicle rebuilding program set up by the US army immediately after the war,… Read More Commander’s bug: 1947 Volkswagen Typ 1
Some time ago we published another example of Lancia Esatau, but in that case it was a “civil” version, among other things very well restored. Here, however, we are faced – and this, for us, is an absolute novelty – of an Esatau destined for the Italian army (or at least of what remained of… Read More Combat skills: 1948 Lancia Esatau 6 Rom
The fact that the ad concerning this car does not have an exposed price is certainly something we like very little, but it is not very relevant. This is because the car in question is said to be a KDF of 1943, or one of those very few specimens that have come down to… Read More War machine: 1943 Volkswagen KDF
We close this 2018 with a bang thanks to this car which, during its life, has seen many things that probably nobody should ever see. It is in fact a KDF Type 60, or a beetle (for the profane model like us) produced during the Second World War and in this case adapted for the… Read More War veteran: 1943 Volkswagen KdF Type 60 “Red Cross”
The WWII period Beetles are actually the Holy Grail for every Volkswagen collector: this one (chassis #033588) not only belongs to that period, it is actually said to have been delivered new to the staff of Hermann Goering, probably the most powerful person in Germany after Hitler himself. The seller says that the story of… Read More Nazi past: 1944 Volkswagen Typ 82E
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