Vintage mail-order Volkswagening

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8 Comments

nocturne213@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y

As a kid i wanted one of these so hard. As an adult, i still do.

GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Where's the engine? 😂

nottheengineer@feddit.de · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

In the back.

GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I meant in the disassembled pic at the bottom

tiramichu@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y

The pic at the bottom only shows what comes in the kit. You provide the engine, along with the rest of the car.

halvar@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

That's Bud's buggy.

FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It looks like a Manx Myers

schwim@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

All of the buggy style bodies of the era looked like the Manx. Bruce Meyers lost in patent court, the body shape being deemed "unpatenable", so everyone began making what basically amounted to clones of the Manx.