It’s a take on a VW Hebmuller. It was VW’s attempt at a 2 seater car. Only around 500ish were made. The factory burned down and the molds were all destroyed. Here is a photo of one to see the similarities.
This is a one owner '66, given to me by a recently divorced guy whose ex had broken most of the glass out. I'd been taking care of it for him for 10 years prior. It was in remarkable shape, never been hit, no rust, decent paint that rubbed out. The 1300 was getting tired, so I built a nice, mild AH case 1600 dual port for it out of mostly used parts ... .020 over align bore, shuffle pinned, 87mm barrels, ported, full flowed, Engle cam, bug spray, 019 dist, big blue Bosch, 38 amp bus gen., stock muffler (extra heat for Idaho weather). Interior needed only seats recovered - our upholstery guy worked the shrunken factory vinyl door panels back to good as new shape. Welded in two select-a-drops & de-cambered the rear (really poor idea for driving on icy roads), 1.35 & 1.65 rubber on earlier wheels with Porsche caps & 544 Volvo beauty rings and a South Wind gas heater finished it up ...
Yes, but this one belonged to Randy Carlson, who also bought the Rosenstiel roadster in the early 2000’s. https://www.oldbug.com/rosen.htm I should have bought it when the ad came up on Competition Engineering’s bulletin board for about 7k.
Looks like another beetle project might be coming my way. The guy that bought my green bug wants to get rid of his project now that he bought mine. It’s dirt cheap so it’s hard to pass up. The pic is the potential project in the foreground and my old bug I built from a roller in the back.
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