The only thing missing from this li’l woody is a 1937 Ford front end, like we saw the other day.
But then when it comes to customizing the most customized car ever, everyone deserves to have it be their way. And for some, there’s nothing nicer than a Beetle schnozz.
I’m not sold on the downward-facing taillights. The roof is made of wood too, covered in black fabric, and has some interesting overhangs on both ends.
Too bad you couldn’t get a pic of the inside. I would have liked to have seen how they worked the engine in, since the Type II and Type III were rear engined but had a flat floor.
Must be slow to haul anything though…
I like it. It’s honest with the real Bug front and the real wood. It all depends on execution of course. Don’t like the tail lights either.
The taillights just need to be turned around so that the reverse lights are ‘up’! that would be an easy fix.
Then they’d be pointing at the sky.
They should have used some other type of taillight, those don’t work…
I never thought about it before, but now I wonder why VW didn’t put a wagon body on the Beetle platform, much like this but in steel!
Was the Squareback not based on a Beetle platform?
Only loosely…
The VW Brasilia put a Type 4-looking wagon body, in two- and four-door versions, on the Type 1 platform. That’s probably the closest to what you’re looking for.
Pretty sure this is just a type I. Probably have a box over the engine which detracts from the luggage space. Would love to drive this. Beetle driver equals beetle mechanic.
A reminder of how adaptable the VW Käfer is. One of the advantages of what I call the “Austrian School” of car design (Ferry Porsche, Hans Ledwinka, Steyr-Puch Pinzgauer).
BTW, I now remember from college a fellow who had that Ford-type hood on his Beetle. It makes a lot of sense, considering how little useful space it has there.
Paul, did you get the phone number? I’d be interested in how much they want for it. Might even buy that if it weren’t too expensive.
Here’s the details: $6999 541-999-0896
thanks Paul. I might go have a look see!
The VW woodie was a Popular Mechanics project. So many people liked it that the plans have resurfaced in other places. This one doesn’t look like a particularly ambitious one, with its bare sheetmetal doors and contours that don’t follow the VW’s shape as carefully as the PM one.
http://www.stevensonprojects.com/WOODY_p/rs101.htm
jeez, check this one out!
http://www.stevproj.com/VWWdyPg1.html
Kinda like the ‘Holzwagon’ a bit better…
Funny CJinSD found the same car on another page!
Gore-jiss!!!
Apparently this guy is still selling kits to transform your Type 1 Beetle into a mini motor home…
http://www.rqriley.com/minihome.html
Interesting, in that he took what look like 1950s bumpers, prior to the “plumber’s delight” style of th1960s…and hanged them on his (apparently) 1968 chassis.
Of course it’s anyone’s guess; and it could even be a Frankenbeetle. But the doors with the angled divider, the bigger windshield, the non-faired headlights, and the “tombstone” taillights, without side reflectors…all say late 1960s. But, no bar-with-black-stripe bumper.
Ah, well. If he’d found a way to put a steel roof on it, it would be the cat’s sass. As it is, I’d be afraid of deconstruction at 65.
That looks good yeah the lights are lame but its a real woody, I shot a’ woody’ Escort ute you can laugh at when my computer is rebuilt compared to that this is a work of art/