Cross-breeding of a Land-Rover and a Rover P4/P5, the "Road Rover" could have been the forerunner of the Range:

(Early 50s prototype. Picture from this French page)


(1958 more car-like -and last- prototype. More details on this car when clicking on the picture, and other views here.)

I always wonder: if these vehicles, like a lot of others, had been produced, would we be accustomed to these strange designs? For the Citroën C-60, I have serious doubts

(The 1960 C-60 was foreseen as a link between the 2CV and the DS 10 years before the arrival of the GS...)

Another weird looking one-shot car, made in 1958 by a coach-builder in the former DDR (East Germany), the VW Neumann-Coupé:

(Full history can be read here (de) )



If my rusty German (and the online translator I used to help it ) didn't fool me, it has been made on a VW Kübelwagen basis, interested some people in the VW staff and in the DDR ministries, but it eventually stayed as single model.
Did I hear some sighs of relief?

The story is here:

http://www.autobild.de/klassik/artikel/neumann-vw-traumauto-der-ddr-2316953.html

it was handmade on a Kübelwagen-basis by a private coachbuilding-craftsman and his two sons.

There were some more of such cars existing in the DDR. Two years ago there was an exhibition in a museum in East Germany about that. Quite a lot of these cars have survived.

Also interesting in this article is a sentence, that the profession of this little family-owned coachbuilder-craftmanship (such little private companies stayed allowed along the whole DDR-lifetime) were the restoration of car-wrecks and the making of special bodywork on Wartburg- and Dacia-basis.
So maybe they are the makers of the two, three Dacia 1300-based Hearses, which existed in the DDR!

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