Aircooled VW South Africa

Well I've asked for help so I thought I should contribute as well...
I'm a bit car crazy - I've had an intermeccanica 356 replica and currently own a 2001 dodge viper. Really want to get back to spanner twirling so I'm looking for a 356 coupe replica at the moment; though I digress!
I went to cars and coffee this last weekend in Minnesota USA and saw the most amazing car.
In the sea of Porsches was a little (what I thought was a) Porsche Glocker from the 40's.
After being a little staggered by it and slightly envious of whomever managed to afford such an amazing car, I carried on looking at the other automotive pornography assembled.

On my way back past the car I decided to look a little closer. There was an older guy with a Wheels of Italy T shirt talking to a younger guy and while keeping my little 'un as far away from this automotive treasure as possible, I asked what it was (wondering if I was right).
To my shock the guy who answered was the young guy. 'It's a Formula Vee that I converted'.
Wow!
Now I'm still trying to keep an inquisitive 3yr old away from touching it and he says, he can sit in it if you like.
Blown away and trying to keep my boy away I said thanks but no. Being worried about what he might do to this amazing car. I then got dragged away by my boy and only got a picture of it.

I really wanted to know a bit more about this car and tried searching for it on the web and finally came up with this:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=492754
Seems like this amazingly talented young guy built it from scratch out of hand formed alloy. You have to look at the thread to understand this guys talent.
Home grown too!

Very nice, thanks for sharing.
This Porsche /VW relationship is so closely knit you can hardly split them--and who wants to.
The beuty of a Porsche lies in the fact that it was developed out of the most humble of cars and then became the most repected sports car in the world---Show you the engineering wisdom Ferdinand had.
cheers baron

damn... thats hours and hours of blood sweat and tears...

That is SUPER COOL man.. Thanx..

BARON wrote:Very nice, thanks for sharing.
This Porsche /VW relationship is so closely knit you can hardly split them--and who wants to.
The beuty of a Porsche lies in the fact that it was developed out of the most humble of cars and then became the most repected sports car in the world---Show you the engineering wisdom Ferdinand had.
cheers baron

I agree of course, but they were two different Ferdinands, father and son. While Dad was responsible for the KdF, Kubels and Schwimmers, and the Tiger Tank amongst other bits of krieg-hardware, Ferry developed the sports car (while Dad languished in a French prison). Prof Porsche had very little to do with the company after his release.

Absolutely superb engineering. I am a huge fan.

Hi Munkyking

Here are a few glocker pictures I have on my computer.
There is also a guy that buid replicas link below

http://stevehogueenterprises.com/Glockl ... che__2.php

Here is a few more