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Karl Becker from Bassen-Nadah working at Borgward. He was a car-obsessed, was technically very creative and had his head of full of ideas: a Goliath technician who realized his own ideas after work and simply built cars.A whole Hall full of vehicles from Borgward automotive production in a small northern Lower Saxony community. Hardly a type is missing. But in the far corner is a small car, which will so not fit into the ensemble. An angular Roadster with the Lloyd logo on the grille. Until the demand to the owner, in living Achim Wolfgang Wischnewski, Licht ins Dunkel brings: this vehicle it is a unique piece - a self made with approval for street use, manufactured by the former Goliath engineer Karl Becker. 1954 the new engineer came works of Carl f.w. Borgward automotive Tycoon to the Goliath, where he served until the bankruptcy in the chassis and engines as a design engineer.The young technician dreamed to become Chief Designer, Borgward, and so he built his own cars, mostly stylish sports cabrios at leisure. While he left not only for technical drawings and design studies of elegant bodies, who is found dead in the estate of 2002. He turned his ideas into action and produced even cars.So, Karl Becker the 1950s under the name of ballerina I built a roundish, elegant roadster coupe. The roof was removable and could be stowed in the trunk. The living in Nadah at Bassen and working engineer had developed chassis and the plastic body. A VW Boxer engine with twin carburettors, later a 1.1 liter served as a drive-unit of Porsche. Becker designed a second vehicle with significantly eckigerer lines, but of similar workmanship at the beginning of the 1960s. The Ballerina II was created from parts of the forerunner, the 596 cc engine by Lloyd Alexander TS under the hood now, also had the chassis of Lloyd LT 600 van. On the front edge of the hood, the writing Nadah graced in chrome letters.Wolfgang Wischnewskis Roadster was placed at the beginning of the 1970s to the wheels. It was built on the chassis of Lloyd Alexander TS, whose 25-PS-four-stroke engine under the hood to work goes. The body was designed by Karl Becker from Bassen-Nadah. Many parts processed in the in-house construction come from then-current: the hood of the Opel Kadett A, the bumpers and the radiator grill from the glass of V8. The papers from the year 1974 has of Lloyd and Karl Becker as a manufacturer.After Wolfgang Wischnewski 1989 acquired the self-construction of the Builder and original owner, is usually warm and dry in the vehicle exhibition of Lloyd exotic and rarely moves over the asphalt. And if, then, the exotic is a star at the Borgward classic car meeting..
