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Seb67 Samba Member
Joined: December 02, 2003 Posts: 1004 Location: New England
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 1:06 pm Post subject: Stoll Coupe |
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Apologies if this is a repost. _________________ 1964 Type 1 |
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69vwcarl Samba Member
Joined: September 14, 2008 Posts: 138 Location: midland michigan
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:05 pm Post subject: Re: Stoll Coupe |
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Awesome video. I would love to hear the full back story on the car. _________________ LOVE splits more than Jean-Claude Van Damme |
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finster Samba Member
Joined: May 26, 2012 Posts: 7839 Location: north o' the border
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 6:50 am Post subject: Re: Stoll Coupe |
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This is the Bob Shaill car and I found this on the 'net
"Originally this car was built between 1952 and 1954 for a Herr Bernard, who originally had his eye on a Hebmüller, but decided to commission his own car after the demise of that firm in 1952.
The two year project to create a hard top conversion, similar to the now lost Hebmüller hard top coupe prototype seen in June's Wheelspin. The redesign featured a reworked rear roof, and custom decklid, based on the Beetle sedan part.
Herr Bernard owned the car from 1954 until 1969, from whence it began its long journey towards Bob Shaill's garage.
In 1969 it was sold to two wandering Americans, travelling around Europe, who obviously went far since the car was sold on in 1971 with 370,000 km on the clock. 71 saw the car arrive in England (where possibly the travellers caught the plane home) and was registered under the license plate of EAN 24J.
The car was then stolen and subsequently went through two VW enthusiasts who never got round to the work or expense of restoring the vehicle.
Eventually Bob Shaill acquired what he saw as a unique model and began a 14 year project of restoration and research. He has brought the Stoll Coupé back to life and rescued a one-off piece of Volkswagen history. Not surprisingly Bob Shaill also owns a restored Hebmüller. The Stoll now resides in the VW Museum at Wolfsburg."
Apparently Bob tracked the car down to some land behind the Crystal Palace football ground and I remember seeing the resto featured in a magazine in the 80s. |
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bulikomaniak Samba Member
Joined: October 01, 2008 Posts: 19 Location: Sanok, Poland
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 12:59 pm Post subject: Re: Stoll Coupe |
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Yep an industrial engine |
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RichOakley Samba Member
Joined: August 30, 2004 Posts: 1108 Location: Midlands, UK
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 9:24 am Post subject: Re: Stoll Coupe |
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finster wrote: |
Apparently Bob tracked the car down to some land behind the Crystal Palace football ground and I remember seeing the resto featured in a magazine in the 80s. |
That was Bob's Heb, not the Stoll. _________________ 1947 Beetle
1956 RHD Karmann Cabrio
1956 RHD Beetle
1957 RHD Pitt-Moto Type 2 Camper
1959 RHD Beetle
1966 RHD Type 3 Fastback
1976 RHD Sun Beetle |
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OvalinAz Samba Mini Tech
Joined: June 09, 2009 Posts: 1069 Location: AZ
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 9:31 pm Post subject: Re: Stoll Coupe |
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i was looking thru a 1989 issue of hot vw's and there was a 3 page thing about this car. ill post some pics in a bit _________________ 8/56 Oval
6/55 Oval Dad's
5/64 French Notchback
12/62 French 11 Window Bus
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chromies should be outlawed and thrown in the trash |
Pandraggers C.C. |
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