Following the vast destruction of WW II, exciting new sports cars emerged from the rubble, which was just what the world needed: Italian-born rolling sculptures from Ferrari, Maserati, and Lancia, German-engineered masterpieces from Volkswagen and Porsche, and, of course, a host of fabulous sports cars from Great Britain and the USA. These cars got us smiling again.
But what about smaller nations like, say, Austria? Ask an average automotive aficionado to name the great sporting cars from this little country (other than the earliest Porsches) and wait for the deafening silence. But don’t blame Vienna-based Wolfgang Denzel, who built his first wooden-bodied prototype under the name W.D. in 1948.
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