SOLVED - Geraldo´s #269 - MacLaren Apollo

[sixtee5cuda]

Did the <redacted> web link, include more information about how a Brubaker-like van came to be built in Brazil?

[staulan]

No, only about the car whose name was similar (the Apollo GT).

[mymokke]

No disrespect intended ....... I can still find nothing that substantiates the claim that the van pictured in the puzzle was ever manufactured by MacLaren or McLaren named Apollo or anything else.
Would appreciate verification.

[sixtee5cuda]

The Brazilian ship builder Mac Laren produced two types of vehicles in the 1980s.  The first was the Passat Julia.  The second was the puzzle car.  While researching information about the Julia, I discovered the following about the Apollo:

The prototype Apollo van had a fiberglass body, and used a VW air-cooled engine mounted in the rear.  The Apollo shared the dashboard, windshield, and windows with the Volkswagen Brasilia.  The Apollo would be provided completely built, or as a kit.

This is probably all the information that exists about the Apollo, and I found no indication of how many were actually built.

Here is the original of the puzzle picture: