The color photos are originals that the professional photographers took back then with a lot of effort, pretty models and beautiful cars. Over the past 20 years, Peter Kurze has been able to acquire the estates of several photographers with a total of almost 150,000 photos and negatives. Today, the photos in his archive are well organized. They mainly show cars from the German car manufacturers of the 1950s and 1960s. Peter Kurze has published various books that reflect the flair of the rebuilding period in West Germany.
For 2018, photographs were unearthed from the archive that are a colorful reminder of the economic miracle era.
Borgward calendar 2018
The 2018 Borgward calendar commemorates the cars that Bremen industrialist Carl F. W. Borgward produced in the Hanseatic city in the 1950s. The historical photos show the chic Isabella and the B 1500 truck in 1954 in front of the recently built vocational training center. The other pictures show the elegant Hansa 2400 S at Holler See, the large Borgward P 100 in Bürgerpark, the B 611 delivery van (1957 in Waller Heerstrasse), the Lloyd Arabella and the sophisticated Hansa 1500 sports cabriolet. Also pictured is a Goliath tricycle in 1955 in use at a nursery in Blockland.
Further illustrations present other cars and show the Christmas-decorated Sögestrasse when cars were still allowed to drive there, the "boss" Carl F. W. Borgward in the television program "Aktuelle Schaubude" and the extravagant Isabella Coupé.
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DKW Calendar 2018
The 2018 DKW calendar commemorates the DKW automobiles of the 1950s and 1960s, which were produced by Auto Union in Ingolstadt and Düsseldorf. The historical photos show the vehicle range from the elegant AU 1000 sports coupé to the Munga all-wheel drive off-road vehicle. The pictures also show the popular "Rundlinge" (Meisterklasse, 3=6, AU 1000 ...), a rare F 102, a Junior, an F 12 Cabriolet and an early Audi.
