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Article description: This article comes from a well-kept collection and is therefore considered a ‘used’ item. The model car itself is in very good condition. The model car is in its original acrylic glass/Plexiglas display case. The original cardboard packaging is no longer present. The accompanying flyer with the history and description of the original car is present. The acrylic glass/plexiglass display case has slight signs of storage/use. The acrylic glass/plexiglass display case consists of a base plate and a transparent acrylic glass/plexiglass cover. The model car is screwed onto the base plate. The photos published here are part of the article description.
The model car is made of resin (synthetic resin) with permanently attached small parts and is factory-built.
Scale of the model car: 1:43
Edition: 333 model cars
Manufacturer: Autocult GmbH, Richtweg 66, 90530 Wendelstein, Germany, Email: info@autocult.de. Please keep this address.
Warning! All model cars offered by us are true-to-scale and true-to-original models/miniatures of the original cars for collectors, not children's toys! If the article offered is used properly, it does not pose any health or other risks (e.g. fire). All model cars offered in our webshop are collector's items and are only suitable/intended for young people (14 to 18 years) and adults. The following expressly applies: Our model cars are not suitable for children under the age of 14.
Product safety instructions: This model car must always be kept safely out of the reach of children under the age of 14. The duty of supervision of parents or the person responsible for supervision also applies to young people. Parents or the person responsible for supervision must therefore always ensure that the model car poses no danger to the young person.
Neither the collector's model, nor small parts detached from it, nor the packaging may be put in the mouth, held/pressed on the mouth and nose, swallowed or inhaled (mouth and nose). There is a risk of suffocation. Neither the collector's model nor small parts detached from it or the packaging may come into contact with the eyes or ears in any way. There is a risk of blindness or hearing damage. There is a risk of injury to skin and hands if the collector's model and the packaging with sharp tips and edges are used improperly.
Tax law information: Value added tax (VAT) is levied throughout the European Union (EU), although each EU country sets its own VAT rates. The total price of an order placed by a customer within the European Union (EU) is therefore based on the VAT of the respective recipient country. It is adjusted accordingly at the checkout during the ordering process. The sales of this model car are subject to differential taxation in accordance with § 25a USTG: This means 0% VAT on the order for the customer. The relevant statutory VAT to the customer's EU-country of destination is paid by us in accordance with the OSS (One-Stop-Shop) procedure. Shipping to non-EU countries is carried out from Germany. The VAT of the respective recipient country, customs clearance costs and customs duties or similar costs are not included in the final order total and must be paid to the relevant third parties. These shall be paid by the buyer.
Project KF IV
Nuremberg in 1955: The company Zündapp, which came to fame for its motorcycle construction, tried to gain a foothold in the local car market with the small car ‘Janus’. But the small car segment was not the only new intended business field. Also “sporty” customers, which have a much higher readiness to spend their money, should be targeted.
In the spring of 1956, Zündapp contracted out the first design for the car called ‘Project KF IV’. The Nuremberg-based company spared no expense for the design and hired Pininfarina’s design office to create an appealing body. For this purpose, Zündapp delivered the chassis fitted with an engine dummy to Turin. Finally in the autumn of 1956 the commissioned design was finished. Company boss Hans Friedrich Neumeyer drove to Italy to have a look at Zündapp’s newly designed future sports car. The hand-finished aluminum skin weighed 450 kg, including seats and equipment. This weight was supposed to be further reduced in series production. In the end, a final weight of the finished car with the original car body of 775 to 800 kg was intended. Due to not having a own, suitable engine, Zündapp draw on a 1.1 liter and 78 hp-strong sports engine of the English manufacturer Coventry-Climax. The development of the sports car quickly became the absolute pet issue of the owners family and lasted the whole year of 1957 and beyond. From the spring of 1957, the first practical test were completed – but not with the expensive Italian aluminum skin, but with a so-called ‘running-in body’. The test drives revealed numerous large and countless smaller deficiencies and their adjustment led to serious delays of the originally established schedule. The start of the serious production, which was planned for spring 1958, had to be postponed early. Time ran out for the sports car and there was still plenty to improve. Financial worries arose and were aggravated as the sales of motorcycles further declined.
In the summer of 1958 it was decided to cease ‘Project KF IV’ and just to focus on the production of two-wheelers.