Show a post-war mystery
 Dear readers,
After three years of owning the DKW F91 Karmann Kabriolett that I bought in Lissabon-Portugal I still know little history of this particular car. I bought it from a F. Almeida Antonio, a curious colector of some 300 classics. He restored the car and brought it on the market in early 2009. Antonio bought the car from a retired german guy, a Mr. Peter Friedrich Runte he lived with his wife and two children in Cascais and Peter owned the car some twenty years, from 1984 untill 2003 or 2004. But before 1984 there is no history, besides a so called 'Registro de Propriedade' dating 8th of May 1954. First owner is hard to read on this document but I try: it is a Baptista Co elho and he lived on the G.Alexandre Herculano 43 Lisboa. My question is if someone knows the man or the family? He bought the car and I would like to know where the car went in those thirty years before Peter Friedrich Runte bought the car. Unfortunately Peter died last year and when I made contact with him he was already very sick and in and out the hospital. But his brother from Germany who cleaned out the house in Cascais, after Peter passed away, found a few photos of the car. They are taken in the early 80's when the car still was the original black colour and had the numberplates FB-20-53. Maybe someone in Portugal can help me with completing the history of this rare twostroke car? I would like to search the registor of cars of the early 50's downtown Lissabon but that is ofcourse difficult to realise. Thanks for any little information or old photos or stories, all is more than welcome!
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Author: Joop Terpstra
Sunday, 02 October 2011
 
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