Completely free of knickknacks and without stance ‘improvements’. As if they’ve just rolled off the production line. Or left the body manufacturer’s workshop. A trio of mighty fine classic Volkswagen one-tonners: a pickup, bus, and -at first sight- a box truck.
From left to right, a 1966 T1 pickup. T for Transporter, not Typ(e).
Then another 1966 T1, this two-tone bus. Or Kombi.
And on the right in the line-up, a 1973 T2 with a box body in Bolletje livery and two fully-fledged, comfortable beds inside. And that MAN Ponton-Kurzhauber in the background needs some TLC.
Here’s where the happy camper’s inspiration came from.
And just for your information, this is the one and only beschuitbus in Bolletje livery.
Nice! I will take all three!
Wow; those Bolletje box trucks had a substantial wheelbase stretch. I’ve not seen that before, except for home-built mega-buses.
The Kombi/bus has the deluxe (Samba) trim strip between the two colors of paint. And it has a flip out window on just the rear-most one; I’ve never seen that before. But there were lots of Kombinations, and it might have been done later.
Paul, just do a GIS for ‘volkswagen kemperink’. The Bolletje conversion was one of their many jobs.
Like the tan open bed truck. I remember seeing several of these as a child.
IIRC, the Chicken Tax killed their import.
President Johnson got into a p***ing contest with Germany 🇩🇪 over the prohibition of chicken imported into Deutschland. Therefore, import of trucks was heavily taxed.
Not sure if it was Toyota (beds reattached to frame at dockyard) or Subaru (seats in the bed via the Brat) was the first to circumvent the duty.
Another fuss was the import of Fort Transit Connect from Turkey. Something like a row of seats were added or deleted upon touching the US docks. I believe Ford eventually had to pay a fine anyway. Dodge got around the tax via NAPTA and manufacture of the Ram Promaster City in Mexico.
Speaking of VW and Ford, they’re working together these days. Currently, the Ford Transit Connect is essentially a VW Caddy, the upcoming VW Transporter T7 is a Ford Transit Custom and the VW Amarok is a Ford Ranger.
Talk about a reverse CC effect. Yesterday I spotted my very first T1 Transporter dropside in the wild on the road. Unfortunately I was stuck at a long stop light and lost sight of it. The half van and half truck is perfect in my eyes. All a modern version would need is a telescopic bed extender for an extra 3-4 feet or 1 meter to accommodate the occasional large item.
The Canoo BEV truck appears to be highly influenced by the T1.
Interesting. That box van didn’t look so long in the first shot, but it sure did in Johannes. I was into T1’s for a time in the 70’s and always wanted to do about a two foot stretch. Aside from never having the time, and I could have done it mechanically/structurally, you don’t want to know what the sheetmetal would have looked like.
Aftermarket stretch and cargo box jobs by the Dutch Kemperink company. Another similar T2 below.
They also dit many T1 jobs, have a look here:
https://www.facebook.com/Kemperink01/photos_by
Three French air cooled vehicles. Our local cruise night in 2018. The blue one is mine.
All cool air-cooled things come in threes, indeed. You’ve got a really neat 2CV! Cult status vehicles, just like old VW buses/panel vans/pickups. I vividly remember the days that those Citroëns and Volkswagens were all over the place, utterly common street furniture they were. Which still applies to the latest generations of the VW Transporter, BTW.
All of these are Typ II, Typ I is the Beetle platform .
VW was the first ones to circumvent the chicken tax, they’d add two bench seats to a Kombi (middle one) otherwise it was a bare bones stripper having no door cars nor headliner behind the driver’s cab .
Trying to figure out which of these I’d like, most likely the single cab pickup but the raised tray that makes for easy loading of boxes etc. makes it a serious P.I.A. to load in even a small Motocycle .
I lobe yhe 2CV’s too ~ I had a 1959 AZ model with suicide doors, centrifugal clutch, no gas gauge (a dip stick in the filler neck) and the wipers ran off the speedo cable .
-Nate