I think 35th, but am fine with other non-man scale VWs.
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Not invested in what scale etc, just looking for an excuse to do something fun and not Dunkelgrau with this…
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We watch my next door neighbor race his Beetle a few times every year. These are not his - his is more pedestrian looking because it’s a street legal beast.
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Depending on which year you are talking about you may have to modify the kit. For instance, you may have to add cooling flaps to each front quarter ahead of the doors as they added vents there in 1951 only. The external starter crank hole is deleted, chrome molding will need to be added, tire size changes from 5.00x16 to 5.6x15, new instrument panel starting in 1952, changes to signal lights and interior lights several times, changes to bumpers, license plate light cover changes shape, Wolfsburg crest on hood replaces KDF emblem obviously, and so on. If you want the engine visible that is a whole other bucket of worms.
So maybe that is more a campaign for car modeling enthusiasts to tackle; I love VWs, owned several, and have been a member of several clubs but I don’t won’t to do all that work.
Might be easier to build former wartime VWs in their new roles among the populace after the war. Easier still to just build wartime VWs of every war. You could skip scale and being limited to Type 82e’s, Kubels, and Schwimms that way as I know the UN and European forces tended to use quite a few of them so you can add all the buses then. Takom and a couple of other companies do Vanagons for the U.N. and such.
Just some thoughts.
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too funny
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When I lived in Orlando (94-96) my mechanic had a Karmann Ghia racer with a turbocharged engine that topped out around 300hp. And we had Fisher Buggies near Tampa doing street legals, racers, and dune buggies.
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If you can pull either of those off I will be begging you for paint lessons.
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This one seems an easy enough fit to a Feldjaeger version:
Add a couple of Dolp figures:
Decals from TL-Modellbau:
Job done!
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Ultimately far more useful than their last one, which was more like a pedophile van.
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And both were mixing body parts for a time, so you could get a Bay window with the smaller side windows and cargo doors common to the Splits.
That Police wagon has a grille between the turn signals that is very different from the European-built ones, and that bumper is the earlier style used up to 1971 with a round profile; the body style with the higher turn signals normally had flat-profile bumpers.
I feel South American VWs of the 60s-80s were the equivalent of German armor as far as consistency of parts and their introduction. Just because corporate says use part A2 now doesn’t mean you should waste that perfectly good box of A1’s you have left.
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Doesn’t even need to be a complete kit.
https://texashighways.com/travel-news/roadside-oddity-slug-bug-ranch-in-amarillo/
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I am sure that the magnificently named German organisation, the Katastrophenschutz must also have used them - now there’s a decal demanding to be made!
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There seems to be a vast array of markings belonging to that organization.
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Ahhh the 70’s…
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H.P.
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