VW Beetle post van!
- Friday, 3 October 2008
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Chris Clark's Reichpost VW Beetle post van replica
Well, we thought we'd seen it all - in over 20 years of unrivalled coverage of the VW scene around the world, we've seen and featured just about every variation on a Beetle you care to think of, even down to replicas of unusual wartime variants. We've seen Kübelwagens, Kommandeurwagens, even Schwimmwagens that people have made at home, or modified later cars to resemble them. And when VW themselves commissioned a German coachbuilder to make accurate reproductions of the V3 and W30 prototypes, there weren't many VW models that hadn't been built, or at least replicated in one way or another. But in many of the books that have been written about the history of the Peoples' Car over the years, there appears one solitary picture of a Reichspost Beetle - a post van built during the Second World War on a Kubelwagen chassis. With an ungainly metal box where the top rear quarter of the Beetle body would normally have been, it was more functional than aesthetic, and so has been largely ignored by anyone bar the wartime VW history buffs - and even there it's given pretty short shrift as it's not particularly consequential to the story of the Beetle. But that inherent ugliness and the fact that no one had tried to replicate one yet is exactly what drew Chris Clark from Las Vegas to it. That and the fact that he was able to see past the initial look of the car and see something beyond, which people would take notice of. More than that, along with his good friend Kevin McCain, he had the ability to turn what started out as just a drawing into reality.
For the full story check out the November 2008 issue of VolksWorld magazine. On sale on 03 October and then available through back issues.
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October 07 05:19
Greg Banfill
I liked this car so much I bought it!!
It's now sitting on SA Sprint Stars, has the correct dash pods and a split shifter modified to work on the late pan, as well as a 3 spoke wheel and early column.