maribel
“What’s this?” you might ask. It’s a VW 147, which was developed in the mid 60s by Volkswagen and Westfalia (who produced the camper vans) for the German Post as a delivery vehicle, mostly for country postmen. It was based on a Volkswagen Type 1 Beetle chassis, and the shape sort of looked like a Type 3 (notch back) and VW Kombi van combined into one disproportional car; it was either nicknamed “Fridolin”, or less tastefully, due to its shape, “Contergan”, which was the German brand name for the drug “Thalidomide”, which caused so many malformed baby births. It hat sliding doors, one fixed seat and (sometimes) one folding front seat, storage space in the back. The axles were from the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia to give it a little wider wheel base. Only 6,126 were built between 1964 and 1973; now they enjoy real collectors value… I used to own one — a long time ago; it was the only vehicle I ever drove, which found hills [= it lost speed] where one would not see any incline in the road surface… :D
letitia
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![“What’s this?” you might ask. It’s a VW 147, which was developed in the mid 60s by Volkswagen and Westfalia (who produced the camper vans) for the German Post as a delivery vehicle, mostly for country postmen. It was based on a Volkswagen Type 1 Beetle chassis, and the shape sort of looked like a Type 3 (notch back) and VW Kombi van combined into one disproportional car; it was either nicknamed “Fridolin”, or less tastefully, due to its shape, “Contergan”, which was the German brand name for the drug “Thalidomide”, which caused so many malformed baby births. It hat sliding doors, one fixed seat and (sometimes) one folding front seat, storage space in the back. The axles were from the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia to give it a little wider wheel base. Only 6,126 were built between 1964 and 1973; now they enjoy real collectors value… I used to own one — a long time ago; it was the only vehicle I ever drove, which found hills [= it lost speed] where one would not see any incline in the road surface… :D by maribel](http://indulgy.ccio.co/D7/RA/HE/747ca395e59bd5d0ef087c496967386b.jpg?iw=300)
