Lindner Coupe, basically a sort-of knock-off East German Porsche 356
I just found yesterday a Hungarian article/blog post about the story of these cars, found it very interesting. Admittedly I haven't looked hard for sources in English too hard, so I post here the Google-translated version of the Hungarian article. I skimmed through it and it seems to be a decent translation, however some measurements are incorrectly translated:
- when the article talks about the Kübelwagen’s chassis longer than the 356's, it should say 30 cm, NOT 30 inches
- later they talk about having acquired a 30 sq ft plate from the Czech Republic: it's not 30 sq ft but 30 sq meters, big difference. Also, and this is wrong in the original article, too: there was no Czech Republic at that time, the country was called Czechoslovakia (it existed from 1918 to the very end of 1992, well, apart from the time between 1939 and 1945 when it didn't basically).
Google-translated article:
https://translate.google.com/transl...9/a_keletnemet_porschek_hihetetlen_tortenete/
Porsche press release about the topic:
https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/his...alexander-fritz-restoration-engine-14700.html
EDIT: just read the letter from Ferry Porsche. The original parts they supplied were used parts, something that neither the Hungarian article, nor the Porsche press release mentions explicitly.