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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2014 => Topic started by: sixtee5cuda on January 10, 2014, 10:42:59 PM

Title: SOLVED: WTH # 304 - 1956 EMPI Sportster
Post by: sixtee5cuda on January 10, 2014, 10:42:59 PM

Please provide the year, make, and model of this fun little car

Title: Re: WTH # 304
Post by: sixtee5cuda on January 15, 2014, 03:44:22 PM

Expert time!

Easy one?

Title: Re: WTH # 304
Post by: sixtee5cuda on January 22, 2014, 08:13:27 PM

No ideas?

Title: Re: WTH # 304
Post by: ValkyrieGT on January 23, 2014, 03:26:24 AM

1956  EMPI Sportster. All steel VW based buggy.

Title: Re: WTH # 304
Post by: sixtee5cuda on January 23, 2014, 10:10:07 AM

One point awarded to ValkyrieGT for the correct answer.  I understand this is also a rare example of the Sportster, as it is considered a 4-seater or 2+2.  (There is a shorter 2-seater.)

It seems in 1956, they hadn't quite figured out the "fiberglass VW-based buggy" concept.