A few month after the war, the german Racing driver Kurt Kuhnke and the Volkswagen engeneer Walter Hampel had the idea to built a sportive Racing car based on Volkwagen technology. After a discussion with the head office of the Volkswagen Headoffice and the british control commission, they were allowed to built a Volksracer. In the mind of Kuhnke and Hampel, there was a marked for a sportive Volkswagen coupe in the mid 1950s and so they started the project "Vollstromlinien-Leichtbau-Konstruktion" VLK. Walter Hampel worked for Volkswagen since 1938 and so he learned a lot about the KDF and the Porsche T 64 - known as "Berlin-Rome-Racingcar" and so the project growes up very fast. With the help of the technical university of Brunswyk, the scalemodell of the car was tested in a aerodynamic wind chamber and they found out that the car has a CW-rate of 0,21.
Kuhnke and Hampel organized an old Kubelwagen-chassis and with the help of the Wolfsburg coach builder Heinrich Schwen, the car was built. In 1947, the car was finished and presented to the heads of Volkswagen.
In August 1947, the car had its first use in a race in Brunswyk with Kurt Kuhnke as driver. He won the race.
Some other racing cars based on Volkswagen were built, like the famous Petermax-Müller Racer which was also built by Heinrich Schwen. But Petermax-Müller used another Volkswagen engine - build for military boats of the Wehrmacht. With this power, the VLK had no chance to win the races. It was modified in a Spyder.
In 1948, Heinrich Nordhoff was ordered to be the big boss of Volkswagen GmbH. He was not interested in racingcars and so the project VLK get lost.
In August 1948, the car was sold to Richard Trenkel, a racingdriver from Bad Harzburg.