1953 Dannenhauer & Stauss Cabriolet Cabriolet

Gottfried Dannenhauer and son Kurt Stauss set up shop in Stuttgart shortly after World War II to build sports cars based on Volkswagen's floor pan and hired two Professor Wunibald Kamm's students, Wagner and Oswald, to team the design. Theirs was clearly more Porsche-like than VW. Hand built by forming steel sheet over wooden bucks, although the suicide doors and engine and front 'boot' lids were pressed. The stock Beetle engine of the day didn't have the horses. Often, Okrasa was bought in to rectify that. Between 85 and 135 were said to have been made between 1951 and 1957; including three hardtop coupes. Perhaps 12 examples survive.