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Solved - NEH 1229: 1956 VW-Svenning by Sven Svenning on 1949 Beetle
« on: August 17, 2011, 07:44:37 AM »
What's this, from when?
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Re: NEH 1229
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2011, 07:22:50 AM »
Rookies don't seem to know the answer so let's see if the Experts know any more...
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Re: NEH 1229
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2011, 08:11:44 AM »
This must be the 1956 creation of Sven Svenning. Based on a 1949 VW and inspired by the Porsche 356.
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Re: NEH 1229
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2011, 09:02:20 AM »
Quote from: JMC on August 24, 2011, 08:11:44 AM
This must be the 1956 creation of Sven Svenning. Based on a 1949 VW and inspired by the Porsche 356.

Exactly!
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Re: Solved - NEH 1229: 1956 VW-Svenning by Sven Svenning on 1949 Beetle
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2011, 09:14:21 AM »
A rear view:

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Re: Solved - NEH 1229: 1956 VW-Svenning by Sven Svenning on 1949 Beetle
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2013, 10:00:52 AM »
Apparently Sven Svenning started to build this car in 1956 but never finished it.
It got stuck into a barn and was only rescued a couple of years ago and sold to a Christian Grundmann at auction.
It's he who completed the car very recently.  Originally the car was, I believe, called by Sven the PlexiTopSpecial as the opening top was made of plexi-glass, on top of the hand-formed aluminium body.

Here are pictures of the car as found a few years ago:

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