Aircooled VW South Africa

I'm visiting my family for the long weekend. Thought I'll take some pic's of my brothers Porsche 356 A. Wish it was mine.

Tell your brother he has an awesome and clean looking 356!

That Ghia doesn't stand back an inch though

was that the one that was parked under the bridge in CPT a few years ago?

I agree, nice car, but then so is the Ghia, Red is my fav colour!!!

Thanks Chris.

No Tony this car is an Gauteng car He bought this car about 18 years ago in pieces. Everything was in boxes. He worked on it in his spare time and only finished it about three years ago. He use it regularly. It drives very nice. Brakes is much better than on my 57 Oval or 58 Ghia. But that is to be expected.

Hope you guys enjoy your weekend.

Sweet Ride, Love the colour.

Now where can I for a Bathtub Splitty?

That is 1 b e a u t i f u l l car. Would seriously give anything to have a ride like that 1 day.

Yes, we all know it's just a beetle. BUT DAMN!!! IT LOOKS SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A plat ge-moerde-beetle....

WOW, what I would cut off to own one of those???

Dirk wrote:Yes, we all know it's just a beetle. BUT DAMN!!! IT LOOKS SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh Come on.... that beauty is a Porsche full stop. Saying its a beetle is like saying the beetle was not a copy of the Tatra cars from Czechoslovakia.

It is a stunner, and any normal oke would love to have one.... or two!

Muds

Muderick wrote:

Dirk wrote:Yes, we all know it's just a beetle. BUT DAMN!!! IT LOOKS SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh Come on.... that beauty is a Porsche full stop. Saying its a beetle is like saying the beetle was not a copy of the Tatra cars from Czechoslovakia.

It is a stunner, and any normal oke would love to have one.... or two!

Muds

Yes, all of it true, I'm green with envy so I couldn't resist grinding it, somehow!

This should really be in a different thread, but to me the origin of the prototypes and subsequent KdF product before and during the war are much of a muchness. Volkswagen was "born" after the war. The magic of VW lies with Ivan Hirsch and Heinz Nordhoff, the public that bought the cars and fell in love with them, like (who posted it?) Walt Disney picked the Beetle to be Herbie because it was the only car in a parking lot that people stroked and petted.

The wonderful stigma that follows the busses (no only splitties) and the unlikely motorsport prowess of the T3s, and that gorgious little air cooled flat four that just keeps impressing people... All this includes Porsche, in my opinion.

I could go on, but you guys get the drift. It is such a cool ...er... Well, everything about it is cool, interesting, endearing, cute, ingenious, special, unique!!!

Am I the only one who noticed the spelling mistake in the thread's title?