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Hello, as promised: Here are some pictures of the beetle and "The Thing". With it`s 44 HP is it unbelievable off road. Especially in the summer, with the open roof top and the windshield folded to the front. Better than riding a bike (my opinion) and beneath their father the kid`s love it too. BR Markus

Hello and thank you all for the welcome, Hanno your right, that´s the beetle. Unfortunately it is at the moment a little bit different from the ones on the pictures. Chassis and a part of the body are in good condition again. I planned to paint it not in the original yellow of the Postal service but instead in so called "Zeltgrau" /Tent Grey, which is very similar to the "Feldgrau"/ grey of the german army in WW 1. This colour was used by the German Postal service after WW 2 for the Construction teams. I have only one picture of a beetle in this grey colour...but in my opinion grey fits better than yellow. Hanno thank you very much for the picture..and best regards to Holland. Markus I try to add some photos

Hello, you have a new german guy in your really good Forum. Thanks for the possibility to join. My name is Markus, I´m 42 years old and I live with my family in Germany close to the city of Trier, in the Mosel-region, some may know because of the good wine. My interest was since the early days of my driving license allways in old military vehicles, so i started with a 42 Willys Jeep in 1986.Sold it two years later, because I had no clue about restoring such a vehicle. Meanwhile I found out, that VW is a very easy to restore, because you get the parts allmost everywhere. Unfortunately the real "good" ones (VW 82 and 166) are not achievable anymore (to expensive/ not a problem of spare parts) but whom do I tell. I had the possibility of buying a 66 German Postal service beetle, which is currently under reconstruction. I´m driving a VW 181 (Thing/Trekker) built in 71, ex German Army right now. It is allways a pleasure to deal with the enthusiasts, so I´m looking forward to spice up my english and e-mail once in a while. (Sorry for the mistakes! Hope it doesn´t hurt to much) Best regards Markus