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Old 03-26-2018, 05:06 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Ya don't see these every day!

It had a KANSAS plate! Hard to believe this escaped to our side of the pond for a while!

I like it... I'd like it better with the luggage rack deleted. Oh well.


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Old 03-26-2018, 05:18 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Fascinating. Never heard of these before... but now... drool...
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It looks cool, but I'm not sure to which extent I would prefer this over the stock design which seems to have at least better headroom in the rear seat area.
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Stock 1952 Beetles are a dime a dozen. This is a Baby Steyr body-swapped onto a Kubelwagen chassis.

The whole story is here, via the inimitable Jason Torchinsky:

https://jalopnik.com/the-true-story-...tle-1580706620

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You said your no fan of the stock roof rack.


https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/vi...=asc&start=260

The Jim Dandy roof rack is a bolt-on but something similar could use a similar permanent attachment.

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