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[quote=phil leadley;28887]The red and black coupe, san's chassis sat in my back yard for 20 yrs. We  rescued the car in about 1980, used it as a parts donor till approx. 2002.
I still have the b pillar badges as momento's. The yellow doors and deck lid in the background came from a fellow in Desconso, Ca. who also had a 58 
coupe, same color. We bought his spares, but had to pass on the coupe. In the 70's these cars had very low value, and were beyond the skill level of most
VW people. Prior to our cabrio, few people had completed a restoration, much less a sale to establish a benchmark value. The degree of difficulty still
remains high as well as resto costs. At least now the cars have accepted values, in 1978 we spent $10K + on a car few had even seen. Countless times I was asked " whats it worth?" I have no idea. Hell! we didn't know what the car was supposed to look like! We restored it from 1 picture!

Now thanks to the hard work of many people, you can restore a Rometsch correctly and share it with other car lovers. Because in the end thats all that 
really matters, dollars or euro's can't buy what you receive when you show (share) your car.

Please forgive my passion, I (we) put heart and soul into promoting Rometsch cars, to the point of burnout. At least a hundred car show and Concour
events, countless magazine shoots, books, TV interviews, and correspondence, took a toll.  After 1996 I had to quit, I don't remember what I did with the
records from the Registry (ask the Grundmanns?)  Years of depression and a heart attack reek havoc on ones memory, now 13 yrs. later I can talk about it.

The photos of the car with the VW NUT plates, our car at a VWVCC meet at Don Burns VW dealer in Garden Grove Ca. circa 1976. Note the ghia rear bumper,
it took me three years to find a replacement.

We sold our cabrio in 94 to Dr. Mac  Jones of Somerville, Tenn.  The black cabrio with the porsche grille could be the same car years later?

I miss my friend Willie Lottermann.[/quote]

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Thanks for the info are there any photos of the cars.

Andy W

This weekend, the Amelia Island concours was held in the Usa. The Grundmann family flew over the Rometsch coupe split window to present it on the concours.. Amongst the other vw coachbuilts there was a Dannenhauer and Stauss roadster and the only coupe, an unrestored lawrence coupe, Lawrence convert and a second Rometsch coupe and A hebmuller type 14a. Grundmanns coupe won a trophy : The volkswagen of America trophy. First class, well done. runner up was the Hebmuller.

JD wrote:
So which car was the one at the VolksWorld show? I can´t readily identify it from the ones shown here.

The 543 was at the volksworld show..

So which car was the one at the VolksWorld show? I can´t readily identify it from the ones shown here.

I found out that the Fiat 1000 was produced from ?? '65 up to 2000 in India under the name "Premier Padmini". If those Fiat taillights are exactly the same as the Rometsch taillights, that makes India a wealthy source for Rometsch taillights... :smile:

Fingers crossed it is not yet discovered Patrick. I hope it is a new one.
Good search and hunting.
:arrow: :beer:

KomodoKamado wrote:
This is the only remaining photo I have of my '59 Rometsch
I lost all my photos in a fire years ago.. My mother found this and sent it my way.
I believe this is in Santa Barbara at least it was in the early 90's

Dennis Linkletter
Bali, Indonesia

PS
I sold the car with a new 1800 in it..
I still have the original 59 Okrasa 1300 motor with the glass fuel filter, Abarth exhaust and nameplate in storage in CA
Anybody know the value/demand of/for this?

This is a very interesting picture. This cars has the curved body with fiat style taillight. Currently there are only two cars known that are like this (the 558 and the 566). I just spoke with Dennis on the phone and he can't remember any numbers, but he told me that the car was originally metallic blue and he painted it silver with black. I checked the remainders of the 558 and that car was originally all yellow. So Dennis his old car might be the 566 or it is a car not yet discovered. Now I have to find out if the 566 was bought in santa barbara.....

This is the only remaining photo I have of my '59 Rometsch
I lost all my photos in a fire years ago.. My mother found this and sent it my way.
I believe this is in Santa Barbara at least it was in the early 90's

Dennis Linkletter
Bali, Indonesia

Dennis
I live in Los Angeles and Im looking for an Okrasa engine for my 1957 Enzmann 506.
Just last week my Dutch friend Nico picked it up from the PO and Nico
is going to restore it. Please email me back if you would like to sell your Okrasa.
Greetings Erik
ouwersloot@aol.com
++ 818-414-0372

PS
I sold the car with a new 1800 in it..
I still have the original 59 Okrasa 1300 motor with the glass fuel filter, Abarth exhaust and nameplate in storage in CA
Anybody know the value/demand of/for this?

Car nr 515 is now finished.
This car was completely restored by the Grundmann's and is looking great.

More pictures on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rometsch-fanpage/331248706891699

regards
Patrick

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