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joe56vw
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a friend posted this and facebook the other day and was curious as to what it was
it looks to be on a beetle pan with all the running gear and some other early beetle part
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thebucket
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Martin Southwell
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| Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 2:22 pm Post subject: 1939 Hanoamg on a Kubel Chassis |
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Most people in the UK who have been around a while, will recognise this as Bob Shaill, and the car he acquired many year ago, from the Czech Republic if I remember correctly. I thought he had long since sold the car, but maybe not!
It's a 1939 Hanomag, the car put forward by that company at the 1939 Berlin Motor Show, as their answer to Adolf's request to all motor manufacturers, to put forward their idea of a People's Car. It's Hanomag body has skillfully been grafted onto a Kubel chassis, which is odd really as the original Hanomag configeration has its engine in the front, in the conventional manner, but now sports a fuel tank.
Just because it's not a pretentious, pseudo sports car special, with the odd Porsche part thrown in during construction, doesn't make it any less desirable to a lot of us! |
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tasb
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When I saw the front bonnet I was thinking about the wood fired prototype.
Are those spare spark plugs on the top left next to the fuse block?
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splitjunkie
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Vintage Abortion.
Still pretty cool.
This is what an unmodified Hanomag looks like.
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Glenn 
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Correct
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Undis
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| Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 10:24 pm Post subject: Re: 1939 Hanoamg on a Kubel Chassis |
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Most people in the UK who have been around a while, will recognise this as Bob Shaill, and the car he acquired many year ago, from the Czech Republic if I remember correctly. I thought he had long since sold the car, but maybe not!
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The car is in Australia now. Here it is seen at the Valla show back in 2010. I don't know who owns it though...
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Martin Southwell
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Thanks for that information about the car now being in Austrailia. It couldn't have moved much further away from the UK than that! Somewhere I have some pictures sent to me by Bob, maybe 15/20 years ago, and the car was then in camo colours.
Alongside it sat a Steyr 50 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyr_50 which Bob owned, and maybe still does, and this had been grafted onto a 1951 ish Beetle chassis, in much the same way as the Hanomag had the Kubel chassis.
In these early post war years in Europe, anything that coud be put together to resemble a vehicle was gladly put on the road. It shows what ingenious and resourceful people there were around, who would no doubt be amazed that their creations were still around, and cherished, today. |
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tasb
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And those were the ones left behind. So many were lost during that war.
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