Last weekend I couldn´t resist to spend quite an amount for a unique photo album with loads of fine original, contemporary buggy photos from the late 1970´s.
I want to share this little treasure with you.
However, please search trough your photos and place all your 1950-1990 buggy and beach car pics here, too!
What I knew in this album, are all kinds of Apal, Deserter, Ruska, Albar, Steinwinter and Stimson buggies.
There are some oddities like the Hauser H2, a Colani roadster and two Albar, too.
Some others I wasn´t able to identify clearly.
Those two will be new puzzles now, so please answer only there if you know what they are!
Pic 11 top left: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=26678.0
Pic 34 top left, top right and bottom right: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=26679.0
Most of them are based upon Volkswagen Beetle chassis, some on Citroen 2CV, Mini or Renault 4.
Show me what else could be named buggy here!
Here is batch #1:
Batch #2:
Batch #3:
Batch #4:
last batch:
Wow, excellent stuff. Thank you for scanning these in GrobM, they're groovy man. :D
The silver Colani GT on picture 53 seems to be exactly the same car as this one I photographed in Hamburg years later: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=7011.msg190570#msg190570 . Those air scoops and the roof construction look very unique to me.
Definitly yes!
Well, let´s start the general buggy topic:
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Last for today:
Who needs a buggy ? ;)
:D
do you have more infos about #31?
It´s a Fiat based buggy called "Ever Young". Years ago I´ve scanned it from an old playing card game from around 1980, but I do not have any more specific information.
;)
Quote from: grobmotorix on November 17, 2013, 06:14:37 AM
However, please search trough your photos and place all your 1950-1990 buggy and beach car pics here, too!
A few Deserter pics in here, and some cars that have been puzzles, too.
Thank you both! :thumbsup:
Quote from: grobmotorix on December 19, 2013, 11:19:13 PM
It´s a Fiat based buggy called "Ever Young". Years ago I´ve scanned it from an old playing card game from around 1980, but I do not have any more specific information.
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=20337 ;)
:doh:
An eclectic mix of professional and amatuer efforts. Some were meant for the beach; at least one made it there there in spite of its intended purpose.
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Quote from: thorax on December 19, 2013, 04:53:55 PM
do you have more infos about #31?
It's a Studio Michelotti creation: Every 4R
That´s why I love this website!
Thank you very much for this information!
great!
I´ve found another photo:
A Trabant-based plastic-bodied buggy from Hungary, made in the late 1960s
Oh come on - this is really a cool find!
Thank you for sharing!
It is in my book. It has a really nice story, involving Janos Kesjar (father of Csaba Kesjar, a talented Hungarian racer who died young in a racing accident) and the Villamosipari Kutatointezet (Research Institute for the Electric Industry) aka VKI
Some guys at VKI looked at electric vehicles - over the years they converted an Ikarus bus to hybrid powertrain, made a couple of electric Barkas conversions and also a few one-off prototype city cars with plastic bodies.
Now Kesjar got hold of one such bodyshell and mated it to an lengthened Trabant chassis. Eventually at least three were built in around 1969-1971.
This is what was able to put together. But there is another angle here. There was a very good Hungarian industrial designer, Jozsef Cserny. He designed boats, trailers, buses etc. Unfortunately he died a few years ago and his widow is not very cooperating. But it seems it was Cserny who designed the bodies for the VKI prototypes and it was also him who created these bodies. But this needs to be proved.
QuoteNow Kesjar got hold of one such bodyshell and mated it to an lengthened Trabant chassis
So, this is the first buggy chassis I know that had to be LENGTHENED - :D
A nice one from the Netherlands:
Some more buggies I have seen liva at fabulous Spa Bug Show 2014:
A nice homebuilt one currently for sale:
Cool!
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Hot and humid in Motown today - time to hit the sand and surf! Suit and tie are optional :)
I love your June Dunes, esp. #2! :thumbsup:
Autozodiaco + some nice decorative women...
Half way between Beetle and Buggy:
A funcar anyways!
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A rare German language children´s book about buggies edited around 1970 by a Belgian publisher:
Great! :thumbsup:
Some more from book "Dunne Buggies" by Ed Radlauer
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A little off topic, but too nice to neglect:
:)