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Cam Custom Title Time!

1,535 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#111749
Looks like one of the old police cars. Since they had 4 canvas doors. But who knows what this one has been used for with the shovel and everything off road on it. Could me millitary use, or even a mountain rescue sort of thing.

Unity-28 TOO LOW? NEVER

1,742 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#111750
It says it on the bumper "typ62"
Id dare say a very early war vehicle! But dont quote me! Their was a issue of Volksworld with the ambulance version on the cover. It has 4 doors similarly hinged as a typ 181/182 (thing)

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HotRodMatt If it\'s old or rare - cut it!

3,616 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#111764
Gas powered I think or steam...

Have some info at home. Will get over weekend if I get the chance.

SKEWtYpe3 Custom Title Time!

1,859 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#111777
the tanks for the steam/gas components sat up the front and pushed thru the front. i think this one has a normal engine as with the wheel where it is i dont think it could be gas/steam powered.

anyway its cool and yeah looks like the old cop cars.......

Robo Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,491 posts · joined Feb 2003 ·

#111893
it's in grat condition, restored I wouls assume. I wonder what the two things are either side of the front screen pillars!
Rob.....
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Member of DMLRK.....Die Mittler Lebuns Resto Komeradschaft

Boozer Demented But Determined

1,999 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·

#112014
that is really unique and cool. i like it.:thumb🙂

Black_math Blaupunkt

1,111 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#112019
😀i want it😀

PHAT BUG Dave says Bini's a fool

1,698 posts · joined May 2003 ·

#112128
I'm pretty sure this is a prototype Kubel, the later hebmuller built police cars had different body styling.

HotRodMatt If it\'s old or rare - cut it!

3,616 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#112151
It's a wood gas generator conversion.

Looked it up. They also did it to kubels.

Plenty of info in one of Keith Sueme's books.

KruizinKombi Seriously Obsessed Cyber Dubber

3,493 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#112366
Is that firewood strapped onto the front? 😀😀😀
Kruizin Kol

vw_carrera Officially Full-On Dubber

273 posts · joined May 2003 ·

#112476
one of the plates actually states type 62

SKEWtYpe3 Custom Title Time!

1,859 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#112498
maybe those two things sticking up are flag posts?

i thought the steam ones has HUGE tanks in the front and sat up very hi

anyway why can i see a pestrol cap??

cool car but !

Kubel Rat Casual Dubber

30 posts · joined Mar 2003 ·

#405366
I know this is a late posting, I was Cruising for kubel info......
It's a Type 62, 1 of Only 3 built in 1937, prototype to the kubelwagen, the "Posts" you see either side of the widscreen are Semaphores, the Wooden fascine, mounted on the front of the vehicle are used for unditching on muddy ground.

kevo Officially Full-On Dubber

371 posts · joined Mar 2005 ·

#405539
yer i know,,,, f*****G ugly dats what!
76 baywindow kombi - V8 & Weddle racing diff and gearbox
Daily driven beach cruiser

WABaja Call ME when you need a TOW

824 posts · joined Nov 2004 ·

#405673
There seem to be a lot of copies of war time VW's getting built in Europe at the moment..
The things that give them away, (on the slightly less than genuine looking ones) are things like the size of the screen, the windsreen wipers and if you can get close enough, a look at the front suspension...
That one has a petrol can strapped to the side, so I dunno about steam, gas or otherwise, but the guys building put in a Heap of work to make them look the part...
A close inspection of that roll of wood on the front bumper will reveal that it has light coloured straping on it, underneath, (not the leather strap), and if it's all joined together it may be a type of temporary track system that can be laid down for the car to drive through the soft stuff such as desert sand, hence the shovel in a very handy spot... The German Military were in the North African Desert for some time during WWII...
I hate to admit it, but man, I think you're right....

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#405700
Definately gasoline powered.... NOT Wood etc...
Early beetle prototype.....
Beetle windscreen etc...
very early hubcaps.....
Wood/charcoal burner would have bee sitting where the spare tyre is mounted now.....

Leenn[ Edited on 8-9-2005 by 68AutoBug ]
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

R.FRAGMEYER Slammed & Awesome Dubber

97 posts · joined Jun 2005 ·

#405780
Typ 62 Kubel prototype made by Papler (spelling)
"Suburbia: where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them"

R.FRAGMEYER Slammed & Awesome Dubber

97 posts · joined Jun 2005 ·

#405781
Typ 62 Kubel prototype made by Papler (spelling)
"Suburbia: where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them"

WABaja Call ME when you need a TOW

824 posts · joined Nov 2004 ·

#405793
Wheels and hub caps mean nothing as they can be easily changed.. I'm no mechanic but I managed to change my 64 beetle to 4 stud from a wide 5... That doesn't make it a 70 +...?? Also note the clasp that holds the remainder of the hood closed is a sping loaded metal one.. On the original it would have been a leather strap with a belt buckle style clasp.. Again, changeable, but why would you, if you wanted to keep the car "original"...
It IS a Good reproduction, as is the one that turns up at Day of The Volkswagen and a few other shows in Perth...
That one had me fooled, till the owner stepped in and started pointing out the little stuff...
I hate to admit it, but man, I think you're right....

Midlife crisis Nartispuddlejumper, Bureau of Toxicity

2,282 posts · joined May 2003 ·

#405794
It is very nice would like to know if repo or classic


Marc
If you can't laugh at yourself you can't laugh at anyone else! Because life is to short not to LAUGH

last celtic warrior Wolfsburg Wizard

402 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#405888
Just to clear things up a little, the pic below is of a "wood gasifier" powered Kubel. Wood, charcoal and coal gasifiers were used where petrol could not be found easily. I can see a few of us going back to this older but practical technology, with the way fuel prices are now.

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killakornkobb where's that clutch?

1,663 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#406422
that thing would look sweet with low profiles and a slamming 🙂
Tagedeezee Heezy