Aircooled VW South Africa

This Beetle-based car from 1947 was tested in VW's wind tunnel earlier this year. Aerodynamically it out-performed even the new Golf 7 and Mercedes CLA.

With the early 19kw/24hp aircooled 1100 engine, top speed increased from 100km/h to 140 km/h.

http://www.carscoops.com/2013/03/1947-v ... ar-is.html

That's just awesome!

There you go Barry, you can do it, would be the most scares car on the forum.....

Herman

it looks a lot like Porsches early racers (Berlin - Rome) I think they were...

I took these pics a few years back