KdF Era Delivery Van

I came across this original picture on Ebay a while ago showing what appears to be the type 88  KdF era delivery van (see Chris Barber’s book page 191). It must have been built somewhere in the early 40′s and was based on a Kübelwagen chassis. Note the banana style bumper at the front. This was not the only pick-up type car Volkswagen produced during the war but these models never became high figure production cars. Even after the war Volkswagen never developed a pick-up type Beetle. Coachbuilt company Beutler built some pick-ups and another coachbuilder named Fischer converted some Ovals into pick-ups. I wonder what happened to the KdF one on the picture. Is it still among us? who knows…