Comments on: Eva Braun – Part 3

By: Jerry B

Jerry B — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:07:41 +0000

Around 1976 this car was touring in Louisville, KY at Bashford Manor mall. I remember seeing it and in fact I have one of the brochures that they gave out somewhere in my attic. At the time I believed the car was real but now I do not. You could not keep a car of that historical signifgance a secret. It would end up in some museum somewhere. It would be like hiding one of Picasso’s paintings. Add tot hat teh unbelievable story about how it was shipped out of Germany as “Tractor parts”. My two cents worth.

By: Peter Markut

Peter Markut — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:58:04 +0000

I saw this car also in the 70′s at a shopping mall (Brookfield Square) in Brookfield WI.
My dad took a picture of it and I still have the picture.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:36:05 +0000

I know this car is very real and i should, i worked on it , i do not know who own’s the car and never did. but i do know some of the story about it and how it got to the USA ,and its history. the owner was kept from me and i delt with a third party , this is not a fake car. i could tell when i took it apart to do the work. some of the things you printed about the car is not true ( where it was found and how it got to the USA and what was built into the car) and i really dont think any of these people ever saw the real car, but i can only say there is a real one. i have been doing auto restorations for 35 years and i know a real car when i see it. and i do have picture’s of the work being done to the car.

By: Bill Michael

Bill Michael — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:30:27 +0000

I REMEMBER THIS CAR…!!! I went to see it as a teenager during the 1970′s when it came through town (Radcliff, KY, near Fort Knox) and it was displayed under a big tent. It came on a trailer which had a beefed up suspension and extra wheels (I remember the extra wheels on the trailer) because the car was so heavy. While it was here being shown, it was surrounded by a velvet rope and someone reached over and snatched the radiator cap and an article about the theft appeared in the local newspaper (The News Enterprise) requesting that the cap be returned under a no questions asked arrangement. The cap was never returned and never has surfaced again. While in the tent, the host explained that the car was originally a lush emerald green but was in poor condition when they found it so to show the car they considered re-painting it. The host said that they couldn’t exactly match the emerald green color so the car was repainted in a two tone 24KT Gold paint. The left a spot on the driver’s side of the car to show the original layer of emerald green paint under the 24KT Gold paint. The car is real. I remember, I saw the wheel balancers mentioned in the article and listened to the host explain how they were automatic. I also saw the pull up radiator shades which were used for a quick warmup in winter. The host said the car could run multi-fuel (gas or diesel) and was designed to run well above 100 mph. The car was in town for a few days and you had to pay to see it and then it moved on. It was very fancy and I have wondered many times over the years whatever became of it.

By: J.A.Lee

J.A.Lee — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:16:00 +0000

Sirs: Im 52 yrs. old, andwhen I was about 14 or so, I saw this car. It was on display at a shopping mall here in Dallas, Texas. It is , I’m certain, quite real! It still had the big gold swastika hood ornament at the time, and there was a German helmet, and a Schmeisser sub-machine gun in the trunk. There was a small charge to see the car. It was fascinating! If I remember correctly, it was painted a sort of golden brown at the time, but I’m not certain of that. I never saw or heard anything else about it, and have wondered from time to time whatever became of it. I’d love to see it again!