Hey buddy, check out this Lafer. Oh yeah, that’s funny, looks like an MG. No man, its an MP Lafer. A what now? A Beetle based kit car built in Brazil by Parcival Lafer in 1970s. Ok, now you are just making stuff up. No, a Brazilian guy built a few thousand of these fiberglass […]
The Volkswagen Corrado was a oddball in VW’s 1980s/90s lineup. It somewhat replaced the aging 2nd gen Scirocco, but not really and it wasn’t much sportier than a Golf GTI…so what was it? A VR6 powered Golf chassis based 3-door with a 179 horsepower 12-Valve VR6 motor was a strange vehicle, but today’s example has […]
Volkswagen their watercooled front-engine front-drive Eurovan to the USA market in 1993, which was a replacement to the rear-engine rear-drive Type 2 platform, but was it an upgrade? Both platforms have their fans, but the Eurovan is easier to work on (try getting to a spark plug on the wasserboxer engine) and drives more like […]
Reeves Callaway was an aspiring race car driver who ended up working as an instructor at Bob Bondurant’s racing school in the 1970s. He fitted a turbo system on a BMW 320i and loaned the car to Car and Driver journalist Don Sherman who wrote a one page article on the beast. At the time, […]
Perhaps I was a bit quick to judge the scenic middle California coastal town of Atascadero in my previous rant about the Jeep Cherokee with the chopped up bits. Perhaps I should not judge a book by its cover, an inmate by his straightjacket. The last car we featured in that small town was…well…strange, but […]
This next car comes as a tip from Cory who calls it a “very obscure VW based kit car.” But I think this is not as obscure as you might think it is, because DT features Sterlings on a semi-frequent basis…not that that means much. We tend to feature obscure things because familiar things are…well…lame. […]
The Eurovan is either a totally forgettable blandmobile that you won’t notice, or a sweet piece of Vee-Dub history that deserves a podium at the next RadWood show. I don’t know. I’m not convinced either way…but I do know that my wife wouldn’t want to drive it to take the kids to school and it […]
The Type 3 was a compact offering from Volkswagen that was sold from 1961 through 1973 in Notchback, Fastback, Squareback, and Sedan Delivery (like a wagon, but no windows) variants. Volkswagen never sold a pickup truck version (the Caddy pickup didn’t arrive until the 1979 Rabbit/Golf platform) but that didn’t stop this next builder from […]
This next car…trailer…thing…VDumb is a strange looking beast. At first glance, it looked like someone plopped a camper on top of a late model Beetle chassis…but then I got a look at the barstool driver’s seat and said NOPE. Find this 2003 Volkswagen Gonagain offered for $2000 in North Scituate, RI via metastatic facecancer. From […]
This next thing comes as a tip from Matt C who writes: “Here, we have a 1969 VW Bus, wearing a Beetle as an upper story and a hippy-ish camping interior to match.” Perfect timing for Halloween — you need is a bucket of orange paint. Find this 1969 Volkswagen Bus Transporter with a Beetle […]