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Anyone ever seen one of these VW's?
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Damn that's a good looking VW.
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Actually Rommetsch made even better looking bodies. One was featured in Excellence about a year or so ago. Very rare and very attractive.
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It's the answer to the question that nobody asked.
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One from VW Trends
http://www.vwtrendsweb.com/features/0106vwt_rometsch/ Some other interesting coachbuilts http://gutefahrt.com/special.html Rometsch - 1951 The Rometsch Karosserie was established in Berlin in the 1920s and produced taxi conversions from current model Opels. During WW2 they switched to mobile field kitchens. After the war, Volkswagen became the basis for their work. The Rometsch taxi, a four door Beetle was designed in 1951 by Johannes Beeskow (later worked for Karmann). The Beetle was stretched by seven inches as well as getting the extra two doors. Sadly few of these remain today. Rometsch are, however, better known for their stylish sports cars. The first Rometsch sports car was constructed by hand, using the Volkswagen chassis and drive train. It's frame was constructed from wood and it's skin, hand formed aluminum. The car was often called the "banana" due to its profile and was available as a coupe or cabrio. From the mid '50s Rometsch vehicles were fitted with the Okrasa engine, giving much more power than the stock VW unit. A new model emerged in 1957. The Rometsch lost its suicide doors, got a more curved windscreen. The styling became much more "American" and died out. In 1961 the construction of the Berlin Wall prevented more than half of the skilled workforce entering West Berlin. Rometsch soon closed its doors. 
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Good thing I wasn't betting, I thought it looked like a Borgward.
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There were a lot of pretty bad ass little coach builders in Europe in the 50's, always dug those, or the cut down bug convertibles, Heisenbergs or Hummels, whatever they are called.
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Hebmüller - Official production figures
A total of 696 cars; from 1951 onwards, the cars were assembled by Karmannwerk, Osnabrück 1948 Before Resto  Still in progress 
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