Buggy album + 1950-1990 beach cars / Your contributions are welcome!

[grobmotorix]

That´s why I love this website!

Thank you very much for this information!

[thorax]

great!

[grobmotorix]

I´ve found another photo:

[pnegyesi]

A Trabant-based plastic-bodied buggy from Hungary, made in the late 1960s

[grobmotorix]

Oh come on - this is really a cool find!

Thank you for sharing!

[pnegyesi]

It is in my book. It has a really nice story, involving Janos Kesjar (father of Csaba Kesjar, a talented Hungarian racer who died young in a racing accident) and the Villamosipari Kutatointezet (Research Institute for the Electric Industry) aka VKI
Some guys at VKI looked at electric vehicles - over the years they converted an Ikarus bus to hybrid powertrain, made a couple of electric Barkas conversions and also a few one-off prototype city cars with plastic bodies.
Now Kesjar got hold of one such bodyshell and mated it to an lengthened Trabant chassis. Eventually at least three were built in around 1969-1971.

This is what was able to put together. But there is another angle here. There was a very good Hungarian industrial designer, Jozsef Cserny. He designed boats, trailers, buses etc. Unfortunately he died a few years ago and his widow is not very cooperating. But it seems it was Cserny who designed the bodies for the VKI prototypes and it was also him who created these bodies. But this needs to be proved.

[grobmotorix]

Now Kesjar got hold of one such bodyshell and mated it to an lengthened Trabant chassis

So, this is the first buggy chassis I know that had to be LENGTHENED -

[grobmotorix]

A nice one from the Netherlands:

[grobmotorix]

Some more buggies I have seen liva at fabulous Spa Bug Show 2014:

[Wendax]

A nice homebuilt one currently for sale:

[grobmotorix]

Cool!

[Otto Puzzell]

Hot and humid in Motown today - time to hit the sand and surf! Suit and tie are optional

[grobmotorix]

I love your June Dunes, esp. #2! 

[grobmotorix]

Autozodiaco + some nice decorative women...

[Wendax]

Half way between Beetle and Buggy:

[grobmotorix]

A funcar anyways!

[grobmotorix]

A rare German language children´s book about buggies edited around 1970 by a Belgian publisher:

[Wendax]

Great! 

[jotage21]

Some more from book "Dunne Buggies" by Ed Radlauer

[grobmotorix]

 

[Wendax]

A little off topic, but too nice to neglect:

[grobmotorix]