Good night. Would you know if this model could have been found during the Battle of Berlin?
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They would have been available at that time but how many and where they would have been found I canât say as you see very few photos of them, and you posted one of those few.
Not to be confused with the Katzenwagen of a later era.
Sorry, I couldnât resist⌠I think I have a book on war-time VWs, Iâll take a look.
Unfortunately, no mention in VW at War.
Probably a typo, but the title should be Kastenwagen.
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Isnât this vehicle postwar?
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Someone wrote: Used by the Luftwaffe on airfields.
Maybe if some Luftwaffe officer tried to use one to escape from the airfield or from Berlin.
Someone else wrote: This was a post-war vehicle
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H.P.
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To be honest, searching for Typ 83 pretty much brings up the Special Hobbies kit. I checked a VW source and as mentioned above by Dan and Heavy I can find nothing relating to this vehicle during WWII. The designations I found for a âKastenwagenâ were the Typ 81 and Typ 82. The Typ 81 seems to have been developed from the Typ 62 which was the KDF-version of the standard Beetle and the Typ 82 seems to be based off the Kubelwagen chassis.
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In one blog I found someone claimed that the small headlights fitted into some âadapterâ in the larger holes was a post-war solution
Definitely after the war, small headlights mounted in the larger holes
The headlights while Hitler & Co were still in power
Note: This does NOT answer the original question. It only shows that the photo in the first post most likely shows a VW produced during British occupation.
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