Beetle predecessors/influences/imposters

[Abscate]

It looks like Ganz to me....


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[finster]

^^ no, ganz is the guy feigning interest in the car in the background whilst taking covert snaps!
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[finster]

adler 2.5 1937

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[finster]

GM martia or ad-800 1934

hoffman/mathis 1934

tjaarda/briggs/lincoln 1932

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[finster]

one-off ford engined special by freiherr reinhard koenig-fachsenfeld

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[Chickensoup]

damn these are some ugly ass cars
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-'85 c10 5.3 LS, 222 cam, long tubes, x pipe, 3 inch spin tech's
-'05 B5.5 TDI Wagon 17in sport rims ;EGR + BSM + ASV Delete, Stage-2 Tune, straight pipe
'65 Tourist Delivery Build
'66 RIP
'69 RIP
Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge"

[67 Florida Deluxe]

1966 Citroen 2CV

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-Kent (BaT "daleallen")

OG member of the '67 Posse

A few of my toys, past and present
'56 Oval, '66 KG Conv't, '67 21-Window, '67 Bug, '79 SuperVert, '55 Pre-A Continental

[lonotch]

I can’t say much about it since I signed a NDA, but I was in a studio where cars are designed for a major auto manufacturer, they all have poster boards up with old and newer cars from different manufacturers to get design elements for their own cars, I even saw a notchback on a board once in the early 2000’s, this has been going on for years and years and will still go on, nothing new here and then.
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It's not about the window, it's about the people.

German Folks

[finster]

orix 610

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"we're here on Earth to fart around" kurt vonnegut

nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect...

[Chickensoup]

we all really lucked out that the vw engineers didnt have body line taste like these guys^^^
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-'85 c10 5.3 LS, 222 cam, long tubes, x pipe, 3 inch spin tech's
-'05 B5.5 TDI Wagon 17in sport rims ;EGR + BSM + ASV Delete, Stage-2 Tune, straight pipe
'65 Tourist Delivery Build
'66 RIP
'69 RIP
Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge"

[allsidius]

Just some others from my Gallery..

Mercedes Benz 150H sport coupe ca 1935. None survives, most chassis rebodied with the funny Roadster bodies.

Mercedes 130H Sport coupe, earlier version

Mercedes 130H Sport coupe

1937 Mercedes 170H 2-door (look at those rear side windows vs. the Beetle)

Not surprising that Mercedes Benz built almost 40 prototypes for Porsche typ 60 project from V1 to W30 series.
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1973 1303S w sunroof Click to view image
1978 1303 convertible (sold)Click to view image
1966 1300 RIPClick to view image

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[allsidius]

1933 DKW streamline rear engined race car.

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1973 1303S w sunroof Click to view image
1978 1303 convertible (sold)Click to view image
1966 1300 RIPClick to view image

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[allsidius]

[Abscate]

...and they are both correct
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[Rome]

This one looks quite awkward with its long and bulging rear fenders, and the comparatively short wheelbase. It reminds me of the longer rear fenders that were available for Beetles in the late '60's/early '70's when installing the longer Corvair engine.

[KTPhil]

Another predecessor, conceptually if not quite from an engineering standpoint, is the Hanomag 2/10 "Kommisbrot" from 1925-1928, certainly one of the earliest examples of a German "volkswagen."

This more resembles the Ganz small cars than the later Beetle, in that it is really tiny!

https://jalopnik.com/i-drove-the-earliest-ancestor-of-the-vw-beetle-and-it-w-1660193161

[GArBa]

let's not forget of the 1935 FIAT 1500 (designed by Mario Revelli di Beaumont)

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cars:
'97 type 1 1600i
'14 type AA Seat Mii (sadly dead after 270.000 km)
'22 type C1 T-Cross
'23 type AC3 Hyundai I10 (VW no longer makes small cars!)
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moped:
'82 Benelli Magnum 3v

[finster]

another 30s car with a similar profile - framo stromer

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"we're here on Earth to fart around" kurt vonnegut

nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect...

[mark tucker]

look for the toyota publica. one fo toyotas first, possiably the first. as you can see from the name...kinda like the peoples car..and...toyota even givs credit to vw for it.as well as the car witch is kinda a squished bug...with...2 cylinder oposed air cooled engine...in the front...front wheel drive. oh well they almost got it right...we had one I think it was a 62,I dont remember for sure.I was my brothers.it sounded like a bug too.it was a slug but it was a car.and thats what they wanted to build trying to break into the nissan /mitcheybitchey dominated japan car market after the war. honda tried to make piston rings for toypta but the quality wasent consistant...and thus mr honda started out on his own putting surpluss engines on bikes.and black market gassoline. it evolved into the honda cub and then to the honda we all okow today. the cub was probably the highest selling motor cycle of all time.it was made to branch the bike,scooter/motor cycle gap.and it did that very well sold around the world as fast as they could manufacture them.

[finster]

the publica looks like a trabant with a 2cv engine to me...however the toyopet sa of 47 is more beetle shaped as seen here

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"we're here on Earth to fart around" kurt vonnegut

nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect...