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Thu May 29, 2008 5:58 pm

Was wondering if anyone had detailed plans of the 1939 VW Aerocoupe so I can build an accurate scale model of it from scratch. All I can find are random photos and a doubtful 3-view drawing from a Russian website. Would be nice to see a full-scale replica, sadly my model is only going to be 1/12 scale

Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:04 am

You could just make 12 of them though.... That would be ALMOST like the real thing then....

Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:08 pm

The Porsche 64. Just posted a pic since at least I didn't know what the Aerocoupe was until I Googled it...

Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:01 pm

johnshenry wrote:

The Porsche 64. Just posted a pic since at least I didn't know what the Aerocoupe was until I Googled it...

I've never heard it called that before either.....

Type 64 aka The KdF Rekordwagen aka The Berlin/Rome Car.. :)

and they only made 3 of these... the one in the picture is Car Number 3. Which was Ferdinand Porsches personal car.. and sold to Otto Mathe (the famed one armed champion driver) in 1949.

Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:29 pm

Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:05 am

here are some other picts...
http://www.karosseriebau-drescher.de/portfolio.php

Nice craftmanship with new technology.
Greetings Peter

Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:08 am

peter schepens wrote: here are some other picts...
http://www.karosseriebau-drescher.de/portfolio.php

Nice craftmanship with new technology.
Greetings Peter

The build in the link is incredible :shock:

Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:48 am

Also called the 60k10:
for the 10th body designed for the type 60,
and that is why the upper body looks as it does - like a KdF.
This is what it was to run as in the never done
Berlin Rome Race in 39, so that the KdF car could
use it as advertising.
It did have a KdF chassis (with upgrades)
and a KdF engine, (really tweekt to 40+ Hp)
for the same reason of advertising the KdF.

As I understand it the office always called it
the type 64, where most of the design came from
and what Porsche had wanted to build beforehand
but wasn't allowed to.

I also have never heard it referred to as the "Aerocoupe"
before this thread, and I have never seen it in print either.

Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:02 pm

There are several references to the car as the VW Aerocoupe on the web.

Wikipedia has it as the Aerocoupe as well.

Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:07 pm

Very interesting website. They seem to be making two different vehicles in the gallery, among them a full-scale type 64 in aluminum. Wonder if they'd be willing to share their blueprints? I've found at a yardsale a 1/8 scale model of a Trans Am that has rubber tires I can use, this would make the model 1/7 or 1/6 scale which is huge. If I was going to do a fullscale replica I'd start with the upper body and glass of a Beetle and use the easier medium of fiberglass to cover everything, throw in an electric motor and batteries. Not sure I'd ever have time for all that but one could make a fairly accurate replica that way. Though I'm sure they'd prefer to install a regular gas engine instead.
When I complete a model I'll probably offer a few copies in kit form on the ebay, fiberglass ones with clear vacuform but w/o tires or insides. Apparently one of only two of the prototypes to survive the War was liberated by a group of joyriding soldiers who then chopped off the roof and later drove it off the road in a drunken stupor; thanks, guys

Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:41 pm

John, about 10 years ago I was really into the 60K10 after seeing a photo or two. I though wow, too bad its probably long gone, and I worked the web big time on it and found out it was not just still around, it was for sale. For the minor price of 8 million Austrian Schillings, or about 600000 US$, . I talked to the owner of the Gmund museum about it and got the low down on who had the rights to sell etc(that depended on who you talked to). In any event I never saw a single reference to the Aerocoupe as a name for it at that time or since. I have periodicallysurfed the web looking for more pix and better drawings, and also never heard or saw the term until this thread. I am wondering if it is a late entry on Wikkopedia. By the way I used to be cited in the articles on ithe 60k10 in the wikkopedia, but no longer. I still likethe name 60K10, but I expect the real Porsche fans call it the type 64, which is evidently what Porsche and his office called it.

Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:06 pm

The article you ref says that the three racers were built using typ64 parts, not true there wereonly the three typ 64s built, using the chassis from the 38 prototypes and 4 souped engines, one in a back up non racer body and the three racer bodies. The only typ 64s ever built were the three for the race. later after the wreck of the one driven by Ley I think they did do a chassis swap from the Ley car into one of the other two, and the engines were moved around alot, since they were used as test cars for a long time. The Mathe car has been reworked quite abit as well. The big tank was pulled by Mathe, he had to swap sides in the car to a Right Hand drive for the driver since one arm didn't work well, there is an early pre restoration shot of the interior that shows a non VDO speedo, going to 160KM with a later dash pod without the big knobs. At the same time he set it up with a bench type seat with no stagger for the passenger. The dash only had the one pod, centered on the dash.

Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:58 pm

Coincidences - I build model cars for fun when the full-sized ones aren't causing trouble, and I just recently finished doing a 1/24th scale resin kit of this car. What I want to know is, so what's with the grill in the front?? The resin kit offerred the option of building the 3 different versions, and they had 3 different variations on the front grill, all seemed decorative only.

Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:19 am

Profil 24 makes the 1/24 scale resin kit - Grand Prix Models website carries them:

http://grandprixmodels.com/searchdetail.php?ref=PF...mp;back2=1

or hopefully this will work:

http://tiny.cc/nWbuc

As my college art professor helpfully advised me, "you have a neatness problem" - so I only do this for fun...