Cars for a beach: 1969 Volkswagen Trekker
After a French were seen personification in a sand, a Germans got in on a beach cars action, too, producing the Volkswagen 181. It was presented during a 1969 Frankfurt Motor Show as well as strike a marketplace with assorted names, depending upon its place. In Germany and Austria it was called the Kurierwagen, in a UK it was a above Trekker, in South America it was the Safari and in the US it was simply called Thing.
The Volkswagen 181 was a heir to a Kubelwagen offroad vehicle that was used by a German armed forces during WWII. The automobile was formed upon a Volkswagen Type 3, additionally known as a 1500, that itself was grown from a VW Beetle. The 181 had back circle drive as well as was equipped with a 1.5, four-cylinder boxer engine with 44 hp and a tip speed of 110 km/hr.
It was some-more of a complicated duty car that the French counterparts, weighing about 900 kg. It was written privately for offroad make use of as well as sat the full 20 cm off the belligerent. It was a versatile automobile, had space for five people and four doors. The 181 or Trekker was originally constructed in Germany, but in 1973 prolongation was eliminated to Mexico. Assembly lines finished all prolongation in 1980. In only over 10 years, 90,000 units of a 181 wer made.
