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Sun May 25, 2025 4:14 pm

That's really well integrated!

Sun May 25, 2025 4:40 pm

Fish wrote: Check out this build on Facebook by Chuck Jurgen Teschke. It’s almost done.

There is some more in depth discussion of the helicopter bus on page two of this thread... https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...p;start=20

Mon May 26, 2025 8:47 am

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Mon May 26, 2025 9:08 am

Yeah, previous page

Mon Jun 02, 2025 8:02 am

it's art, darling! can't you see?

Fri Jun 06, 2025 11:11 am

Wed Jun 11, 2025 11:53 am

maybe the ugliest buggy I've seen - owner says it has a '1973 look' :lol:

Wed Jun 11, 2025 1:15 pm

Overseas had some ugly buggy styles. Sorry Finster.

Mon Jun 30, 2025 2:58 pm

Mon Jun 30, 2025 3:53 pm

1970s lady magnet! :)

Although that might be his family since it looks like a few kids

Is that van lengthened?

Mon Jun 30, 2025 7:34 pm

it sure does look like a longer van . Yes definitely parents and children.

Mon Jun 30, 2025 7:36 pm

I want to say Ford but why am I thinking Dodge?

Mon Jun 30, 2025 7:38 pm

wait... is that a Chevy badge?.... man so confused.

Mon Jun 30, 2025 8:25 pm

It's a Chev/GMC, and they were available with that extra long wheel base from the factory. Here's the window version:

Tue Jul 01, 2025 7:51 am

2nd gen Chevy/GMC van, 67-70. The awkward looking lengthening was factory, believe it or not.

Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:36 am

thought at first this was a trike but it has another wheel out the back... :?
the maxwagen

Fri Jul 04, 2025 9:13 am

Haha, that's one ugly SoB. Finster, did you see it in person, or also just found a photo of it? I wonder how the single wheel in front ties in with the central VW tunnel... Some clever construction work, using the outer sides of the roof as the front filler panels, and the early Beetle entire headlamp buckets to house the lamp assemblies. Is the rear single wheel rigidly attached to the body but with vertical suspension, or is that rear "carrier" fastened to the main body with a trailer hitch? I see a sturdy metal bar coming up and rearwards from the rear bumper hole in the fender, supporting a "rigid" rear section possibility.

How would something homebuilt like this be registered in the UK? Since the base vehicle is obviously a 4-wheeled Beetle, can it now be registered/considered a "motorcycle" with 3 main wheels?

Are those British early 1950's Ford Anglia wheels, which have nearly identical bolt pattern to VW's "wide 5s"?

Fri Jul 04, 2025 9:49 am

finster wrote: thought at first this was a trike but it has another wheel out the back... :?
the maxwagen

Drugs are bad, m'kay?

Fri Jul 04, 2025 12:12 pm

Rome wrote: Haha, that's one ugly SoB. Finster, did you see it in person, or also just found a photo of it? I wonder how the single wheel in front ties in with the central VW tunnel... Some clever construction work, using the outer sides of the roof as the front filler panels, and the early Beetle entire headlamp buckets to house the lamp assemblies. Is the rear single wheel rigidly attached to the body but with vertical suspension, or is that rear "carrier" fastened to the main body with a trailer hitch? I see a sturdy metal bar coming up and rearwards from the rear bumper hole in the fender, supporting a "rigid" rear section possibility.

How would something homebuilt like this be registered in the UK? Since the base vehicle is obviously a 4-wheeled Beetle, can it now be registered/considered a "motorcycle" with 3 main wheels?

Are those British early 1950's Ford Anglia wheels, which have nearly identical bolt pattern to VW's "wide 5s"?

just found the photos. it's hard to work out what's going on engine/chassis wise. the rear wheel looks to be steerable and on a single arm like a goliath :shock: yes those wheels are probably ford wide fives. the car is on the dvla records as a vw 1200 which is stretching the law and wouldn't stand much scrutiny if stopped by the police or if making an insurance claim.

Sun Jul 06, 2025 1:33 pm

finster wrote: thought at first this was a trike but it has another wheel out the back... :?
the maxwagen

So hard to look at, so I don't understand the "why"...