Okay, the bidding is closed and we have a winner!
Al wins the case of Brad Penn oil and the complete setting for 12 of Melmac dinnerware.
It is a '46, or at least it is claimed to be a '46. The current owner (of three years) says the guy who restored it said the car was delivered to a US army base in Germany in 1946.
If that's true, it would have to be one of the first cars to roll off the line after the British military rebuilt the bombed out Wolfsburg plant. Supposedly the British occupying Germany needed cheap transportation for their own use and restarted production for that purpose more than to jump-start the German economy.
The owner explained that this was the only '46 produced with a roll-back canvas top. So, either this car is an extremely rare original or some creative welding was involved in the 'restoration'. I seem to recall that the rear split windows of the really old cars were smaller than what this car has.
The story continues that the engine is the numbers matching original of 1131cc and 25-hp. I'm starting to think if all this is true, the car should be in a climate-controlled museum and not at my local C&C. At any rate, I don't think the neighborhood NAPA parts store is going to have one of those distributor caps in stock.
What may be most amazing is that Herr Porsche looked at something like this and thought, "Yah, we've got the makings of a real racing machine here."
