TheNailman
Warcock
This exceptional vehicle was originally restored by Dick Christensen at his shop in Phoenix, Arizona where I purchased it in 1997. This vehicle has the numbers matching Stiftung Museum birth certificate documenting it
1950 Split Standard Beetle
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Nigel Prodrive
Dirt surfer
mmm, The People's Car
designed by Ferdinand Porsche, don't forget
early VWs have a design purity that's hard to beat.
my grandmother owned a girls' camp in Harrison, and owned the very first VW bus registered in Maine. It was blue, had the infamous Barn Doors on both sides, and could literally hardly get out of its own way. Cool rig tho. My dad hit a moose with it...fortunately he was going so slow that nothing got broken, not even a headlight. I remember going on a canoe trip to Union River in eastern ME, and my dad getting stuck in the mud on a woods road and getting pulled out by a log skidder--big adventures for a little kid.
Often wonder where that bus is now, it would be worth a pile of $ to restore like this Beetle.
Tanks fer sharin!
designed by Ferdinand Porsche, don't forget
early VWs have a design purity that's hard to beat.
my grandmother owned a girls' camp in Harrison, and owned the very first VW bus registered in Maine. It was blue, had the infamous Barn Doors on both sides, and could literally hardly get out of its own way. Cool rig tho. My dad hit a moose with it...fortunately he was going so slow that nothing got broken, not even a headlight. I remember going on a canoe trip to Union River in eastern ME, and my dad getting stuck in the mud on a woods road and getting pulled out by a log skidder--big adventures for a little kid.
Often wonder where that bus is now, it would be worth a pile of $ to restore like this Beetle.
Tanks fer sharin!
TheNailman
Warcock
glad you enjoyed it, will pass along the compliments.