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mercrocker
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Re: what's this?
Bilbo is/was a VW campervan conversion company. As pointed out, wheels and filler cap/neck are VW items and I think those seats may be as well. The cement-mixer engine adds weight to a theory that it could be an attempt to update and improve the Beetle.....
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[youtube][/youtube]Eddie Honda wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 2:44 pm It's a last-place entrant from the 1976 BP Build-a-Car competition?
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To be fair, it looks less embarrassing to drive than a Beetle.mercrocker wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:00 pm Bilbo is/was a VW campervan conversion company. As pointed out, wheels and filler cap/neck are VW items and I think those seats may be as well. The cement-mixer engine adds weight to a theory that it could be an attempt to update and improve the Beetle.....
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Does the genny engine power it as well?
Beetle chassis and hardware, plus some dogshit phoned-in body by someone who wanted a Meyers Manx but only had sticklebricks and Ceefax for material inspiration.
Autoshite would have called this the Bumgrape Frightening S2 in the good old days.
Beetle chassis and hardware, plus some dogshit phoned-in body by someone who wanted a Meyers Manx but only had sticklebricks and Ceefax for material inspiration.
Autoshite would have called this the Bumgrape Frightening S2 in the good old days.
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Nowadays it would be the non gender specific transportation device for those who can't decide if they are a boy or a girl
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Here's something a little similar. Must have been a case of wierd contraptions back in the day.
Or even more crazy,
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Or even more crazy,
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Re: what's this?
Kelso? must have been cheap Scotch the night before!
Mind you, it'd probably be quite good on the endless peat bogs up there.
Mind you, it'd probably be quite good on the endless peat bogs up there.
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I guess so with wheels like this, wonder of the company y still exists or what it morphed into.
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