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The Champion 400 was pricey, but it offered a steel body, a roll-back
roof, and disappearing windows. But each car was losing money, and
production stopped after 1,904 examples were built, to be replaced by
refrigerators. a frustrated Holbein finally gave up as well.
The biggest Champion dealer in Germany, Hennhöfer in Ludwigshafen,
had faith in the car however, and took over production with a new
company, the R.a.F. By the time production began in april 1953,
ILo had stopped building their motor, but a replacement was found
in Heinkel’s 400-cubic centimeter twin. once again, nearly 2,000
examples of the “H” model were built. This bright red example was
restored by the museum, and it runs and drives well.
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