UD-74-86 AUTO UNION DKW F10 Cabriolet Baur 1950

Directly after the war Eastern Germany stayed occupied by the Sovjet troops. All motor car factories in Sachsen were expropriated and declared as businesses owned by the people (Volkseigenen Betrieb / VEB).
These factories in the Eastern territories had suffered relatively little damage during the war. Nevertheless Auto Union had lost her production facilities for Audi, Horch and DKW (Zwickau).

The DKW company had to start all over again in Ingolstadt, West-Germany. But this effort took a few years to realize.
Due to severe material restrictions it was not possible to produce new cars from 1945 onwards. The only passenger cars which were available for the German market directly after the war were old pre-war cars.
A big part of them happened to be DKWs because the German military paid no interest in these fragile wooden bodied cars. They were simply not appropriate for use during the battles.
From 1948 Karrosseriewerk Carl Baur, Stuttgart-Berg, supplied restyled bodies on old F8 chassis and offered them as F10 to the German market. In total of 1110 steel bodied cars were rebuild.
Only in 1949 and 1950 new F10 cars could be build. After 196 units production ends in favour of the new designed F89 (which originally would have been called F10).
After the war Baur published some advertisements for these refreshed pre-war DKW F8. These restyled DKW's looked like the one on the photo. See: www.coachbuild.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=263&t=2290

Note the streamlined front fenders with incorporated headlights.

These Baur versions were also available on IFA F8 based Cabriolet or Coupé. From 1950 to 1951 some 250 steel bodied saloons and convertibles were made on a IFA F8 chassis. These cars were only for sale in the Western European market in order to obtain Western currencies by the DDR government.

For further reading (auf Deutsch): www.motorsport-total.com/oldtimer/news/der-wirre-neustart...

688 cc 2 cylinder 2-stroke engine.
830 kg.
Production DKW F10 Baur: Dec. 1949-Aug. 1950.
Production IFA F8 Cabriolet and Coupé: 1950-1951.
Original first reg. number: 1950.
New Dutch old style reg. number: 1956 (not known anymore at RDW, Jan. 2022).

Source: Seen in classic car magazine 'Het Automobiel', number 51, 5th year, June 1984.
Magazine was found in a recycle shop.
Original photographer, place and date (early 80s?) unknown.

Zaandam, Dec. 30, 2014.

© 2014 Sander Toonen, Amsterdam/Halfweg | All Rights Reserved

Taken on: January 1, 1984

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