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As everyone probably knows, the first Volkswagen cars began churning in real numbers weren t friendly cars s little people like insects, but military vehicles based on the mechanicals of the Beetle, and fight definitely on the wrong side.
The German counterpart of the Jeep was a car called Kubelwagen essentially a well Beetle at that time, the KDF chassis with a height of additional working through axle portal and a corrugated body, angular.
These were highly capable vehicles, and they are redirected to do all sorts of things, one is pretending to be a tank, which brings us to this example to sell on eBay Porsche man and society was behind most of the design war Volkswagen derivatives, which is why it has a Porsche type designation If you are curious, like Porsche 82 was the basic Kubelwagen, so the type of three-digit codes that begin by 82_ are derivatives Kübel.
While many think they were used as dummy tanks to attract the bombers away from the real tanks, more expensive, it seems that they may have been used to form the reservoir They don t drive like tanks do of course, but I suppose they could have been used to teach the tactics of drivers and conduct training and all sorts of other tank-ly goodness.
Technically, these seem to be literally large metal sections welded or otherwise attached to a stock Kubelwagen You can see the basic Kubel like it before, with the spare wheel and blackout light on the hood It's wrong track covers on the side and a fake turret, so I guess it can also be one of the rare hardtop Kübelwagens built, as well.
The engine must be one of the first 1131cc flat 25 fours horses at the time, but it seems to have been replaced by what looks like a later date, but pre-1961 flat-four VW visually, you can hardly say .
I'm not surprised at how spacious it is inside seat and plenty of space, and there is also a chair swivel captain I like it even got semaphore indicators, because even if you are pretending to be a reservoir of its driver, you can always select your towers in style.
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