I've been into VW scene the past 15 years. Got in touch with them way back in mid 80's at the age of 15 when I bought my first bug that I raced in the backyard at our farm..
At the same time I also fell in love with the 356's and always dreamt about owning one ever since. Had some fantasies about building a speedster too during the early years.
Anyhow. I have several VW projects and also one 66 beetle as my daily driver during summers.
This Pre-A project came to my knowledge around 2008 when I was mindstorming an idea of making my own speedster in a thread in our Finnish VW forums. A collegue then contacted me by PM telling me to buy his coupe project. Or better yet he offered to take my Crewcab project in a trade. At the time I was not ready to let the splitty crewcab go so we settled at that.
At one point last winter I got the fever worse than ever so I contacted the same collegue again asking about his coupe. He still was interested in the trade. So, we had a deal worked out.
The trade didn't take place until a few weeks ago though...
Here's when I was picking it home.
Here a few pics of it as it sits now in my own garage.
Still a lot of work but nothing impossible.
The chassis and floorpan including ID is based on a 1302S Superbeetle. Including modified Mcpherson from suspension. It also is fitted with full rollcage.
The body was made from a mold made in Sweden in 2001-2002 from the info I've found out, from an all original -54 coupe. This is the first body from the mold. The body and basecar was sold to Finland where the project got started and worked on. There too sold further to the guy that I later bought it from.
The mold was later sold further to an other Swede who made a second body in around 2007. His full tubeframe racer actually got finished a couple of weeks ago in Sweden. I also found out that he made yet a third body by request from an other collegue who also wanted one very bad. This project is from my knowledge yet about to start.
