Terry, The original sketch for the VW Transporter was made on a napkin by Dutch VW Importer Ben Pon, after a visit to the Wolfsburg factory where he had seen a kind of open in-house lorry built on a stretched beetle platform. I think this was in 1948 or so. 2 or 3 years after the first sketch, the first splitty hit the road with a 1200 cc beetle engine. Ben Pon was the first VW distributor outside Germany, and he is also credited with sending the first shipment of bugs to the States. Regards, Robin The Netherlands
Terry Tan wrote: > The breadloafer was a concept design sketched by one of the original VW dealer on a napkin and became an overnight successin the > sixties and is still being manufactured today ! Anyone remember his name ? I it just slip my mind. Carl ???? > |
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