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r000 The engineer 19XX Paul Make Kleinschnittger Model conceived the idea for the cheapest
estimate: $000 000 - $000 000
possible driveable vehicle before the war and was working on
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components for it by1939. The war’s end found him making daily
visits to a near-deserted military airfield, in particular to the area where
captured aircraft had been dynamited by the americans. Here, he
recovered items useful to his plans and ideas, and he rebuilt them in his
small workshop in Ladelund, where he had a business doing general
repairs for the farmers in the area, usually on the barter system.
The beginning of 1949 saw the first outings of Kleinschnittger’s Type
98 (after the small, rear-mounted DKW motor), at first in chassis form
and soon clothed in a minimal, roadster body with a single “Cyclops”
headlight. The windshield was from a wrecked aircraft, and the fenders
were from motorcycles. He had also devised a simple freewheel device
that would take the place of a differential. Word of it soon got around to
the newspapers. The little car was finally and very appropriately named
after its constructor, “klein” meaning small, and “schnittig” meaning
spiffy, or stylish.
The enthusiastic press aroused the interest of a
wealthy investor named Lembke, who agreed
to finance the construction of a small factory
near arnsberg and the development of the car
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