Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisFilled cover-to-cover with photos of prototype production and testing before the war, and the many wartime modifications to Hitler's "Strength Through Joy" car. Contains exclusive Porsche family photographs never previously published. Concludes with the British army's Volkswagen assembly line in the bombed-out Wolfsburg factory in occupied Germany., Before Volkswagen could bring the world's most improbable automotive icon to the masses, engineers applied Dr. Ferdinand Porsche's principles and vision to numerous prototypes. Rare photos of those early production models -- most of them long forgotten or never even seen by VW enthusiasts -- illustrate this rarely told pre-history of the Bug. Included are both prewar and wartime applications of the Beetle's KdF (Kraft durch Freude, or "Power through Joy") predecessors., Filled cover-to-cover with photos of prototype production and testing before the war, and the many wartime modifications to Hitler's Strength Through Joy car. Contains exclusive Porsche family photographs never previously published. Concludes with the British army's Volkswagen assembly line in the bombed-out Wolfsburg factory in occupied Germany.