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1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

Left over ex-German army Kubelwagens?

Yes. There were a good number of them here after the war, some even got new bodies from beetles.

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3 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Yes. There were a good number of them here after the war, some even got new bodies from beetles.

May I ask how that works?  Would the Norwegians buy a new body from VW and fit it to an old Kubelwagen?  

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7 minutes ago, lisbon_road said:

May I ask how that works?  Would the Norwegians buy a new body from VW and fit it to an old Kubelwagen?  

Sweden had a better economy than Norway in the 1950s, so cars were scrapped earlier there, and Norway had purchase restrictions on cars then, so there was a big market in buying car parts in Sweden. So I guess they used beetle bodies from scrapped or cheap beetles in Sweden. But I could be completely wrong.

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9 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Sweden had a better economy than Norway in the 1950s, so cars were scrapped earlier there, and Norway had purchase restrictions on cars then, so there was a big market in buying car parts in Sweden. So I guess they used beetle bodies from scrapped or cheap beetles in Sweden. But I could be completely wrong.

I can also add for those who don't know. These have a separate body and bottom part/frame, so it is possible to change the body. I don't know how well a beetle body fit a Kupelwagen bottom part, but Norway had creative and clever mechanics back then who could make most things  work.

Beetle bottom part/frame

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12 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Sweden had a better economy than Norway in the 1950s, so cars were scrapped earlier there, and Norway had purchase restrictions on cars then, so there was a big market in buying car parts in Sweden. So I guess they used beetle bodies from scrapped or cheap beetles in Sweden. But I could be completely wrong.

Perhaps then the owners of some very old beetles in Norway might not realise that parts of their cars are even older than they thought.  

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5 minutes ago, lisbon_road said:

Perhaps then the owners of some very old beetles in Norway might not realise that parts of their cars are even older than they thought.  

It is possible but I don't know how common this was. At least I have read about one that was rebuilt like this and there should be more.

One thing I came across now. In Narvik Norway 2012 they found and dug up a Kubelwagen that was buried in a garden in 1965.

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There are other examples of how shortage of money makes people innovative.  I've put here a picture of a bus on Malta, made from a 1959 Bedford SB chassis with a locally built body.  I am sure many of you know how famous the Malta bus builders were.  I suppose at the moment in the UK there are cars being fixed now that a few years ago would have been forgotten!

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20 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Yes. There were a good number of them here after the war, some even got new bodies from beetles.

Maybe they were/are a VW Type 82E, which is a Kubel chassis with a Beetle body. VW built almost 700 of them

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4 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Maybe they were/are a VW Type 82E, which is a Kubel chassis with a Beetle body. VW built almost 700 of them

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It could be. But I've read that some Kubelwagen got  beetle bodys here so this is something that happened.

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