DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Looks like a great project & it seems to be progressing at a rapid rate !

Do you know why the original car adopted that unusual (unique ?) handbrake arrangement ?

Fantastic project and that car really is beautiful

Looking forward to seeing this project develop.

Yup keep it coming, this is going to be pretty special.

As they say on USA forums....

SUBSCRIBED!!

Lovely stuff, keep it coming!

Wow, you've been drinking some Redbull to keep that pace up . Looking fantastic so far, great job. What material you going to use for the body??

I have started the build 2 months ago ... Just recently I started this topic here on DDK.
I am going to make the body the same way that I build the body from my Formula Vee. Make an inside mould that I am going to glassfiber and brake out later. So I will get a smooth interior finish from the glassfiber panels and paint them flat alu. The inside, fire wall, floors etc. merely from Alu. Door engine cover and front hood also Alu or thin steel.
The chassis is nearly finished so now I am going to make the steel subframe.

Lightweight_911 wrote:Looks like a great project & it seems to be progressing at a rapid rate !

Do you know why the original car adopted that unusual (unique ?) handbrake arrangement ?

I assume to "set" the back from the car in tight corners. In the days that this car raced it was normal that they raced in the centers from the cities as they called "stadtparkrennen".
So I guess the handbrake from the original car worked bij pulling the level downwards to the tunnel without any locking facility. Our rules (your IVA?) here in the Netherlands say that the handbrake must have a locking possebillity so that it is locked when the car is parked. So i made it to work drawing from the tunnel up and used the original Beetle locking facility.

Made the gear shaft in the chassis. Because I don't know how far the gearbox comes into the chassis I made an old Buggy trick: M12 in the saft so I can adjust length and angle later.

Also started to make the brake lines and to make the subframe. Left site floor section is nearly finished.

Like the original: hand crafted aluminium gearshift and alu handbrake knob in place and I started to make the curved frame parts of the rear subframe.

"Found" on saturday on a swap meet in Germany: early Porsche 912 tacho...
So no Photoshopping anymore ... only needs an RVS ring.

Vintage Speed parts; NOS new and never used original Fram bypass oilfilter and old school big hole valves for the old wheels;

Original: 3Jx16 met 5.20-16 tyres .... topspeed: 200 km/u
The "wide"wheels of my replica: 4Jx15 with 5.60-15 (155/80) tyres ... topspeed: I don't know

Fascinating project - subscribed

Wow, this should be fun. Great project!