Finally a VW Topic!

[ChopStix]

[freebeard]

I want a replica Schwimmwagen. ....with a hydrojet and BMW i3 tires.

[ChopStix]

Here you go, buy one!
https://en.kdf.cz/inpage/new-bodies/

[freebeard]

Thanks. it's nice to know about. But....

Other level of completation[sic] is possible and subject to discussion. For a price quote please contact us with a specification of the desired option.

IOW, if you have to ask, you can't afford it.

OTOH, they probably don't work in carbon fiber, and surely don't in basalt fiber.

Were one to create an .STL file from a game asset or something, it could be 3D printed at 110% to increase flotation.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

[ChopStix]

Vintage show in Huntington Beach.

[freebeard]

I didn't make it to the Bug Run or the Portland Roadster Show this year, but the videos are available. Silver Lining Restorations had their over-restored crew cab back (the only vehicle I remember from years past) but they also had this white Beetle (ignore thumbnail):

Volkswagen display at the Portland Roadster Show 2024 by Silver Lining Auto Restoration. VW Beetle

It has chrome rims with white centers like my Superbeetle had, but these are wide fives with some sort of trick riveting (else trim rings?) At 6:05 they show a Dove Blue panel van with bullet turn signals, much like the one I drove for (counts fingers and toes) about three decades. Mine was never that straight. ....or that blue.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Saturday I had a chat with a restaurant owner, whose 19y.o. son owns a '68 Beetle. He didn't know why sealed beams have those 3 tips at the lens, and many US-spec cars of the '90s still had even though they already had composite headlamps instead of sealed beams.

[freebeard]

I've run Hella H-4s since the 1980s, when they were only legal in Oregon and Washington states. White light wall-to-wall and 80 feet tall, but with a good low beam cutoff.