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r000 It was 19XX time to provide Make the Champion ModelCH-250
Roadster with somewhat
estimate: $000 000 - $000 000
more substantial bodywork. Hermann Holbein sent two chassis to his
offered without reserve
partners at ZF in Ludwigshafen, who built an elegant roadster-style body
with deep, rounded, curving fenders and a folding windshield. The luxury
Champion was an impractical proposition though, as it was too heavy
and too difficult to build. another very interesting proposal was by the
soon-to-be-famous French industrial designer Louis Lepoix. Produced at
his home for over two months, it was a little, streamlined coupe with
smooth lines and a single headlamp, but again, it was too heavy and
too expensive. Holbein himself commissioned two coupes from both the
vischer and the Fries coachbuilders in Stuttgart. Both firms’ offerings were
again too heavy, and Holbein gave up on rebuilding the old 250.
Meanwhile, a third prototype
body had been built by Drauz
in Heilbronn, according to
Holbein’s old idea that a car
could be economically produced
from symmetrical pressings for
front and rear fenders, as well as
the doors. The result was a wellproportioned,
pretty little coupe
that was made even better by
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