Carl Borgward's Dream Car.... [PIC]

Carl F. W. Borgward was an engineer and designer. A wounded WWl vet, he returned to civilian life and ultimately formed the Borgward Group in Bremen, Germany. He began producing cheap 3-wheeled trucks in the 1920's and by 1938 began producing automobiles. He was under contract to produce military vehicles until his plant was destroyed in 1944. because by the late war his employees were either POWs or forced labor, he was interred until 1948. By 1949, he was already producing small 2 cylinder cars of mostly plywood with a solid wooden chassis and the graduated to the pontoon body Hansa sedan he designed inspired by American auto magazines he read while interred. His first big success came in 1854 with the mid-size Borgward Isabella in both coupe and sedan.

 By 1955, he built a couple of different cars testing the market for more powerful and advanced designs called Traumwagens or Dream Cars:

 But his pride and joy was was inspired by American Motorama concept cars. This 1955 Traumwagen was an aluminum-Electron alloy body test mule for various flat 4 aluminim block engines delivering up to 130 HP, designed to be shown at the '55 Frankfurt Auto Show. It was wrecked during testing and never made it. It was rebuilt as a flip top operating from the passenger side completed a few years later. By 1961, Borgward was bankrupt and some time during the proceedings to dissolve remaining assets, it was probably seized by a creditor and disappeared forever. It lives today as this BoS model.