Finally a VW Topic!

[freebeard]

The Virtual Beetle Museum is gone

There's some sort of honeypot on Facespook, but you can still see it at the Wayback Machine



Ignore the snapshots after 2008.

[ChopStix]

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by ChopStix

This one is my favorite -

I see it's from Brazil. It looks weird with this step-side bed.


Just to keep on topic: Euro-spec Volkswagen L80 truck, but this one I spotted in Porto Alegre

[ChopStix]

That's an old Ford pickup bed on the Vdub, or more specifically the sides of the bed attached. But had they made that setup for real I bet it would have been a better seller than those funky fold down bed side pickups.





This one appears to have airplane rear tires - weird!

[freebeard]

The 50 Ford pickup bed is a good fit because the Type II has a ladder frame about that width. The fenders are pushed 'way back and that's probably a hinge line in the bed.

Airplane tires are what people had, back in the day. Note the vintage of the pickup trucks in the background.

I like the F-bomb. Mainly for the tow hook; but — the driver gets a forced air respirator, but the (inline four?) engine gets a bug-catcher?

I watched a Youtube video that was in German, but it sounded like the New Beetle is getting end-of-lifed. Youtube reminded me of Julia's Fatality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcA9iIYonuI

Checking for fuel leaks. Then Youtube pointed me to a video with very similar production and music, Sofies 63:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynhsLOCeCd8

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by ChopStix

That's an old Ford pickup bed on the Vdub, or more specifically the sides of the bed attached. But had they made that setup for real I bet it would have been a better seller than those funky fold down bed side pickups.

Those dropside beds were actually a strong sales argument back in the day.

This one appears to have airplane rear tires - weird!

That's more usual on buggies

[freebeard]

Yeah, how else are you going to carry your open-wheel Porsche race car?


Vintage Formula Vee Car And VW Carrier Will Make Your Desire Gland Pop

What you're looking at here is one of the only Porsche-factory supported single-seat race cars that you could actually buy. Well, "you" meaning some hypothetical rich you. It's also the only Porsche factory-tuned and supported VW Type 2 truck and Formula Vee car around, and it's incredible.

[ChopStix]

In reply to above - That is pretty cool.

I'm at a mismatch of images copied from the AZN media source. So these are all random, or more random than the previous images....



This one I think is a chevy luv bed? Or made a Datsun? I'm not sure.

[freebeard]

Now that right there is funny.

[ChopStix]