Finally a VW Topic!

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Originally Posted by freebeard

The platenwagen had a front loading platform and a rear seating position.

I was considering exactly the rear seating position, right above the engine. Well, making a conventional-looking tractor out of a rear-engined platform is not an easy task.

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The opposite of the shiny paint/trash wheels look.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

The opposite of the shiny paint/trash wheels look.

Those wheels were not the cleanest ones I've ever seen in a beaten-out Beetle BTW

[freebeard]

If it weren't for the database error, I'd repost the picture of my 1956 oval-window sunroof, with the Rader mag wheels.



It was at Permalink #75. Re-viewing this thread from the start is a mind-bending trip.

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[freebeard]

The bumper is crusty enough it could be wrapped with rope the full width. Those factory pop-outs have lengthened arms so they open wider. Could either get a new set of portawalls, or cut the remains of the old one off.
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What I'm thinking about lately is the Toyota Fun VII concept car.


stuffkorea.blogspot.com/2012/02/toyota-fun-viivehicle-interactive.html

If you lay that curve onto a Beetle body it lays on the rain gutter over the door and extends to a side-tapering tail in the rear and down in front of the front wheels. From other sources, it looks like a cut-down Previa windshield would be the best choice. The snub nose between the blades with wings reminds me of the Volkhart-Sagitta front end updated.

Rocker panels and rear fenders to round it out.

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Originally Posted by freebeard

Could either get a new set of portawalls, or cut the remains of the old one off.

This way it matches the rat-rodding look.

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Seemingly, that '74 rat Beetle has mismatching tires, with bias-ply upfront (probably Maggion which is the most popular Brazilian bias-ply tire brand, by the way one of the few locally-available brands with the correct Beetle tire size
nowadays) and radial (Bridgestone Ecopia) in the rear-end.

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Is that a lawn chair luggage rack?

Supposedly your not supposed to mix bias- and radial-ply tires. Since the Beetle can benefit from mismatched tire pressure and size, I wonder about bias front/radial rear versus radial front/bias rear.....and any relative advantage.