Busch 42735 OO/HO VW Beetle with pretzel window

In 1935, the first prototype of the beetle was finished and already at the end of the following year, three test specimens started an extensive test drive. Although the vehicles of the first hour were still very different from what would later become the popular Beetle, the ingenious and simple principle of construction and the characteristic spherical shape were already present. In February 1937, one of the early specimens of Adolf Hitler was examined and found his enthusiasm. Immediately he had a name ready: "KdF car" is his name. KdF stood for "power through joy". This was the motto of the so-called Arbeitsfront, an alliance of workers and employers organizations forced by the National Socialists. So that the motorization of the people with the KdF car proceeded as swiftly as possible, especially on May 26, 1938, the foundation stone was laid for a car factory at Fallersleben. Ferdinand Porsche took advantage of the hour and presented what could be done from the original model of the Volkswagen so everything. So he presented next to the sedan closed a model with a roller roof and even a convertible. The Germans were delighted with the model variants and the possibility to save 990 Reichsmark for a KdF car. More than 300,000 people are supposed to have paid installments for their car until the end of the war - but no one got it. The Busch model shows the KdF car, as it looked from 1938/39 and was partially only available to authorities.

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