Hiltergerke was a small German manufacturer of hand-built sports car bodies active during the 1960s. Its founder, Bernd Hiltergerke, began designing car bodies while still a student, starting with hand-drawn sketches that were then developed into full-scale 1:1 prototypes made of wood and plaster. These models served as the basis for negative molds used to produce the main body panels in glass-fiber reinforced plastic (GFK). By 1967, the first hand-built…