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Originally Posted by freebeard
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Seems like one could put 'anything' on an air-cooled VW platform.
1) That basic body would be problematic though, as Buchheim et al. found out when they tried to do the same thing to create the VW 2000.
2) The severely-slanted windshield created intolerable forward vision light refraction.
3) Same at the rear.
4) From Elliott G. Reid's 1935 aero research at Stanford University, we can anticipate that the full-width rear track will cost them. Losing the plan-view taper down the flanks cost Reid 16% in added drag.