Not to say 'Told ya so', but I've pointed to the Volhart-Saggita a few times:
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If that vehicle had been on sale in the 50s it would have had pop-out quarter windows as a dealer installed option (flow-through cabin ventilation from 1971 on). It does have defroster vents; but the stock batwing steering wheel is anachronistic given the later windshield wipers. The Beetle body is inhabitable in hot weather because of the door vent windows. Flip those suckers around and they are air scoops. The Volkhart-Sagitta has compound curve door windows.
Compare it to this
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Wimille Prototype (1946-1948)
Initiator of the project - the famous French driver Jean Pierre Wimille. Work on the machine he started in 1940, in cooperation enlisted former Bugatti engineers and designer Philippe Charbonneaux...The first prototype was ready in 1946.
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...and you will see that while the V-S cabin is 4-passenger (where the Porsche Type 64 has two staggered seats), still it's optimized as a high-speed courier for the Luftwaffe. The top of the rear seat back is substantially higher than the window line, and you definitely not wearing your helmet in the back seat.
These both (all three) definitely need to be re-popped in fiberglass. There was an active industry in the 1980s cloning MG-TDs, Cobras & etc.
The Type I/II lends itself to engine swaps (Evinrude outboard converted to steam?) . Here's a complete electric drivetrain in the form factor of a 911 transaxle:
There was an active industry in the 1980s cloning MG-TDs, Cobras & etc.