I got this car from a friend of mine in Northern France who now has a 1942 type 60 KDF. He got it in the early 1990s from a VW deaership in Nanterre, outside Paris, when the owner died and all assets were sold off.
The car had been put back on the road and quite crudely restored in light baby blue with blue velvet seat covers. However, it has the original engine and most original panels. I completed the missing parts such as banana bumpers, handed semaphores, taillights and horn.
I know that this car arrived in France in 1951 and was registered in Paris. It then went in the 1960s to Versailles where it received the registration number which it still had until I bought it in 2001.
When I got the car, it had British windscreen wipers stamped with 'Made in England' so I can only assume that it was brought back from Germany by a British REME officer as was often the case.
It must have then crossed over to France shortly after (sometime between 1948 and 1951) and apparently was then painted black, according to French records.
Originally, this car was used at one of REME's vehicle pools and the VW certificate stated that it was delivered to 'Vehicle Coy 159'. Although no one in Germany was able to explain to me where this was, it may have been the British base in Bad Oeynhausen as 159 is only an identification code number.
If you check the show photos section of the site and look at Stanford Hall 2005, you will see it as it was before the present restoration with number plate CAS 290.
Great car, drove very nicely although the gearbox was a bit noisy and tired. I went to Bad Camberg with it in 2003 (as Rob remembers!):d