Volkswagen
Rometsch Lawrence Coupé / Cabriolet

Why it matters

The Lawrence was the 1957 successor to the Rometsch Beeskow, a Berlin coachbuilt sports body on a Volkswagen chassis. It was described as more American in style than the Beeskow it replaced.

How rare is it?

Six separate kinds of rarity – never combined into one number.

Each kind of rarity is rated separately and never combined.

History

Rometsch began with taxi bodies and, after the war, built Volkswagen-based sports cabriolets, the Beeskows. In 1957 it moved to the Lawrence design, first offered as a convertible, with a coupe added in the late 1950s. Each car took about 1,000 man-hours to build. When the Berlin Wall went up in August 1962, Rometsch lost most of its workers who lived in East Berlin and closed.

Technical specifications

Engine

Transmission & drivetrain

Chassis, body & dimensions

Performance

“Not yet verified” means no source has been checked for that value yet. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap.

Identification guide

How to tell an original from a replica or later conversion.

The body is aluminium over a frame of steel and wood on a Volkswagen chassis, and cars typically had Okrasa or Porsche engines installed. The Lawrence was first a convertible, and only a handful of coupes were made; the page shows a 1959 coupe with a mostly original two-tone interior.

Sources

Each number links to the exact facts it supports.

1. 1
   Rometsch Lawrence Level B conceptcarz

   • aluminum body formed over a frame of steel and wood

   Accessed 2026-11-12