Type 2 VW Pickup

[PatW]

Superb V Dub Brent well done!

[Aaronw]

Nice job, I like these old VW pickups. , Too bad these are curbside, but it looks like you did a great job dealing with that issue.

When I was a kid, there was a guy at the end of the block that owned a somewhat weathered olive green crew cab. I don't know what he did for a living, but it looked like it was a work truck of some sort.

 

It is a shame that these are so rare here because of a silly dispute over chickens.

[Greg Pugh]

It is a shame that these are so rare here because of a silly dispute over chickens.

Huh?

[Aaronw]

Huh?

In the mid 1960s the US had a trade skirmish with Europe over chickens. One of the casualties was imported light trucks which had a 25% tax placed on them (still in place). VW stopped importing non-passenger versions of their micro bus to the US in 1964-65 due to these taxes which makes any later than 1964 rare on US highways.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

Edited December 18, 2015 by Aaronw

[Greg Pugh]

I bought my first VW 25 years ago and have owned 14 VW's since then. I currently own 5 of them, including a '58 Kombi. I can not believe I've never heard of this! Even more hysterical to me is that I learned of this on the MCM forum and not The Samba. Lol

Aaron, thank you for teaching me something I'd never even heard of before!

Edited December 18, 2015 by gpugh1976

[Davewilly]

very nice!

[Brent]

Thanks again guys.

 

Ha, I'm on The Samba as well. I own a 1960 Fiberglass dune buggy. 

Model building helped me make this car a reality. Just swapped out the styrene for steel.  

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=265364&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=