:roll: Hello! Can I pick somebody's brains?

Does anyone know any connection between Adler and the beetle.
I've got a wicked poster of a split screen describing it as Adler 2.5 litre 6 sylinder 58ps. Ring a bell to anyone? Really interested to find out the year
ps.s used to have a 1303 but the cost of welding got to me! The poster is much easier to maintain.

Thank you now

Are you sure its not just an Adler that looks similar to a Beetle?

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Hey! That's the one! Ah! Fits into place now

Mmmm, Rob - be interested in your opinion of this model. I love the design.

Read some guy who thought this model was one of the finest and "would certainly have had a greater influence [on the beetle] if Adler had been one of the major producers"

What do you reckon

(or is it all a bit too heavy :oops: )

:lol:

I do really like the look of this car from what I've seen in photo's. I'm not convinced that Adler would have had a bigger influence on the design of the beetle though, the core of the beetle's design is a cheap utilitarian auto, thats what determined nearly every descision on the original car. The aircooled engine was lighter and had less parts, needed less power to drive it, the floorpan instead of a heavy chassis - etc etc. The original Kdf beetles were incredibly basic. The Adler looks to me to be a much more luxurious car for the time.

Having said that, it does appear that a few ideas were 'borrowed' from Tatra and incorporated into the beetle.

There is a thin link between Adler and VW, and that is Karmann - Karmann used to make the convertible Adler Trumpf:



And later went on to build the beetle cabrios.

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Wow, now that was a very interesting topic. I have never heard of or seen one of those before. Thanks for sharing that information.

Larry 🙂

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Hey - nice remarks! Any Adlers still in existence, anyone? :lol:

I can contribute saying that this type of Adler is called : " Autobahn " - Adler.
It is very, very rare and you can count them on the fingers of your hand.
If you find one, make shure that it is complete , otherways the restoration wil be a nightmare !

I once was on the search to get one, I first found a split window Rometsch Beeskow : this says it all !!

and it looks like a BANANA 2 !!!!
the question is now:
is the adler or the rou metsch the original banana ?????
please feel free to discuss now about it

An original banana is called: CHIQUITA!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

:twisted: ET

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This is a REAL banana car...

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WOW what a banana :!:
And even not a banana of Rometsch or Adler :!:

:twisted: ET

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the pic of this bananacar is GREAT
thats the way how i will paint my rometsch !!!!!

Rob,
1) Was the car above really made by Rometsch?
2) I saw a split screen Securicor Bullet proof money delivery van today and I wonder if you know of a link between this and the Bulli?
Bulli-proof and all that sort of connection.
Let me know, cheers.

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That car is awesome! Looks incredibly like a beetle! Very cool!

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hey everyone! i just surfed to ur forum in search for any infos about adler. well, my dad and i have one and we started restoration but as i'm from croatia there's no parts for adler trumph junior '35 so i'd be grateful if anyone could share any information if having any at all.
thanx!
;)

Hi Heathermoor,

There are about 25 Adler 2,5L "Autobahn" Limousine and only 6 Karmann Cabriolet known worldwide (one at the Karmann museum in Osnabrück, one at the EFA museum in Bavaria).

You can find a bit more information on following site
https://www.ritzsite.net/Archive/0312.htm