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PostPosted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 8:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

that thing has the subtlety of a lego bus.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought these things were usually built using kdf or kubel parts to look like a bus
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You better hope you never have an engine fire Shocked
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 5:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Don't forget the early prototypes did not have the familiar style production Type 2 chassis construction. The first few units were based on 1948 Beetle chassis.


Exactly! That looks nothing like a beetle chassis but coincidently Wink looks exactly like a post 50 barndoor chassis.

I wouldn't be surprised though to see a prototype with pretty much the early 50 barndoor chassis. I read the first prototype was based on the beetle chassis and collapsed but they then immiditely rebuilt that and built a second using the longitudinal box section and outriggers which worked fine. Prototype II covered 12,000km in testing. So no weak beetle chassis prototype without the usual ladder style existed for more then a week.


Agreed, old bean. Couldn't see enough detail in the posted photo above (I should have put my specs on), but having seen the more detailed pics, you're spot-on.

So is anybody releasing info on what this actually is, or why there were rumours flying around about it being a 'special bus'?


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Scotty wrote:
I thought these things were usually built using kdf or kubel parts to look like a bus


This is correct Mr.S. I guess the fact that they went to the effort of using an early bus chassis makes it intriguing.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anymore updates on this?

Its been far too long Sad
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 8:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It has that odd shape and line compared to the production bus design. Pretty cool find though..
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This might be the rumour:

1943 Kubel chassis, east german build
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 10:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shocked

Any more photos of that? That's wild looking. It's as if it was the inspiration for Columbian Look buses. Very Happy


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like a little train Cool
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That one looks in beautiful shape!!!
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 3:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

any info on it????/
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 8:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

either that is a very small shopping cart...or this *bus* is 1.25:1 scale!
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PostPosted: Thu May 09, 2013 2:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

any news?
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PostPosted: Tue May 14, 2013 7:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

D-train wrote:
any news?


X2!

Just now saw that last pic. Very interesting!
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PostPosted: Sat May 18, 2013 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dave kroesen wrote:
either that is a very small shopping cart...or this *bus* is 1.25:1 scale!

It's a very small shopping cart. Even the spray can in the foreground looks gigantic by comparison.
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PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2013 7:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shopping carts in Europe are generally much smaller, so the one pictured is actually "normal" for that part of the world.

In America our shopping carts are very large, for the same reason our wheelchairs are much larger. I wonder is coffins are larger too, in order to complete the cycle. Eat-grow large-die

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 1:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So, what happened to this? Any news? Question
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 1:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nop.. not until i get my 51 finished! Wink
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 4:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

iprangen wrote:
In America our shopping carts are very large...


Except in Manhattan, where the supermarkets are very small due to high real estate values and so the shopping carts are tiny, too.

But then again, there's a lot of people who don't consider Manhattan part of America anyway. Wink
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