KdF on the roof
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:14 am
Found recently in Lithuania... 
The way it looked circa 2000
And just before rescuing.
Undis wrote:Just like the VW38, the roof-top KdF is a bit of a mystery as far as its history is concerned. It has sat on top of the service garage serving as an advertisement of sorts for the garage for over ten years and has been known to members of the Lithuanian VW community for some time. Finally in March this year a rescue mission was organised, the car checked and assessed and determined to be a genuine wartime KdF Wagen, and negotiations started to purchase it. The proprietors were still keen to have a beetle on their roof, so a replacement car of seventies vintage was mustered up to take place of the wartime artefact and the deal was done. Unlike the VW38, this beetle is still pretty original although it contains it’s fair share of surprises and make-do innovations. The obvious butchery are the frog-eye headlights, the re-shaped rear fenders and strangely trimmed deck lid . Luckily the main body itself has suffered less with the exception of the cut-up dash.
Battered and bruised and suffering from bad facial reconstruction surgery but underneath it still is a genuine KdF Wagen.
Under the hood the fuel tank is missing but everything else seems to be there including the “ears” that hide the body number under 10 000 layers of paint. At some point the braking system has been converted to hydraulic.
The chassis number reveals its Kübelwagen origin.
Undis wrote:The engine is the real deal, just smothered in strange add-ons and modifications
Undis wrote:The car seems to be made up of wartime VW parts. The chassis is from a 1944 VW Typ 82 Kübelwagen as proven by the prefix 2 in the chassis number. The running gear including the engine and gearbox may be of the same donor, but that still needs to be investigated. The body may be from a Typ 60 (normal beetle) or it may be from a Typ 82E. At this stage the body seems to date from 1943, which is consistent with the build year of wartime beetles found in the Baltic countries.
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