Thinking about a Wizard sedan delivery kit

[tom c]

My first post in a few years, thinking about a '63 type 1 with a Wizard sedan delivery kit partially installed. Anybody got one, got any build up pics? I'd like to see 'em. Thanks.

[dustymojave]

I like the concept.

Back in the mid-1970s, there was a guy who lived a couple of blocks from me and I passed his house a couple times a day. He had a Bug that he made into a Sedan Delivery himself, using body parts from an early 60s Type 2. He did a REALLY good job of it, especially since what he did for a living was demolition of houses and small commercial buildings. Years later, an image of his car showed up in the pages of Hot VWs magazine, as a filler at the end of articles. His had drip rail all around the roof and a 2-piece rear door. But otherwise looked a lot like this fiberglass kit does when finished. I've seen it in recent times on the internet. And I've seen another that was similar also on the net.

I suggest making a flat floor from Bus floor or from a pickup bed from a wrecking yard. It would be good if the rear part of that floor could be lifted up for access to the engine.
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[vws-microcars4jim]

I had one of these. Pic from 1992, my first car! Bought with money saved caddying and a paper route. $500. Mine was on a 1971 super and had a body lift and big tires. It got a lot of looks. I miss it.

I'd like to find another and mount it to a Datsun 4x4 I have, letter the sides "Grave Bugger".😎

[Rome]

The body style/brand in your photos appear to be a BGW which has Beetle-based rear fenders and a single rear door. There was another Beetle "van" style kit called the Vandetta. It had a boxier body with dual-opening rear doors. There was a Vandetta for sale at the Terryville, Connecticut Bug-A-Fair this past June. It was based on a big-windshield (1973) Super Beetle, unfinished, and had a Subaru engine conversion.

Firebuggy gallery:

[NJ John]

The Vandetta was manufactured a few towns over from me in NJ. Ive seen a lot of them driving around when I was a kid. Always cool.
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[Mountain Haus]

Here is my neighbors 67 bug that he won in a raffle. I restored the running gear, brakes, and the suspension, and have been driving it all over town. This thing is funky, and it breaks necks everywhere it goes.
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[EVfun]

Very cool and unusual. I always thought those looked even better with the '37 hood kit up front. The style of that delivery body kit really keeps with the late 1930's lines that are very much a part of the Beetle body style. If you look as many cars from that era you find rounded body lines, small windshields, all glass having rounded corners and is set into the body with rounded surrounds. The Bug was a stylish body design when released. This kit flows with that style (more so than the Vandetta, IHMO.)

Finishing up the example you found looks like a lot of work. The result would be a unique VW to proudly drive.
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