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Old 09-09-2021, 05:18 PM   #1131 (permalink)
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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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Old 09-10-2021, 06:44 PM   #1132 (permalink)
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The opposite of the shiny paint/trash wheels look.
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Old 09-11-2021, 03:14 AM   #1134 (permalink)
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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
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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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Old 09-30-2021, 02:00 AM   #1136 (permalink)
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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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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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Old 09-30-2021, 05:33 PM   #1138 (permalink)
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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.

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