The vlagele copy of 1958 where we drive it today is completely restored by order of the previous (A

When I was driving castella on narrow Italian roads for the first 500 + hp I was nervous, but today his nerves a multiple of what I felt when I went away. With the Audi R8 V10 Plus And while I'm going this morning with only 60 hp by step. Yep, 60 hp, never drove much horsepower for Autoblog. But this car is not on radial tires, has no electric tools on board, so spartan that I can find even heating and the autumn weather has finally reached our country. The owner has just told me that there is no price on the car key is: there are five built and these are known to have three. When asked whether I have a half a million enough to take the thing it is shaken with the head pityingly. I do not ask further, what does not know can not hurt, as we say.
The owner gives me the key and his nonchalant "fun" in my head I step into. The smells of old cars are always castella a delight, castella the old and in this case unrestored (!) Leather feels wonderfully supple. While cameraman Martijn his stuff in the trunk is charging I get a little quieter. It feels familiar here, it's not the first time that I'm in a Porsche 356. The ignition castella lock to the left of the steering wheel, buttons, counters, castella Blaupunkt radio, the Nardi steering wheel, it all looks familiar. The only difference with previous 356's here's the gear Beetle and derived from the backseat. And let those very back seat this car so special. Time for a little history lesson.
Late 40s the brothers coming castella from the Swiss Thun Ernst Fritz Beutler castella and would like to make special cars. They build a set of 356 convertibles with aluminum body, which is on display is informed. Geneva Motor Show The car is so well received that it prefers to see that Beutler Porsche cars in series castella will build Beutler but declines the offer. They think their plant is too small to produce requested by Porsche. The collaboration with Porsche will just reflect. On the backburner Until they build in 1956 a car in 1957 will stand at the Geneva Motor Show: a spacious 2 +2 Coupe based on the Porsche 356 that the nameplate Beutler Special wears. Ferry Porsche approves the conduct of the official Porsche logos good.
Unfortunately, this cooperation also runs again spoke. Porsche wants the special series built by Beutler but he should be more like. On the Porsche 356 It should also sales through the existing dealer castella network. Beutler want personal contact castella with customers and Porsche decides that a spacious four-seat coupe is not interesting enough at that time. There are built in the end only five Beutler Specials and five cars are (if known) even three. castella
Beutler built the Special on the bottom plate of a Volkswagen Beetle, but was the powertrain of the Porsche 356: a 1582 cc four-cylinder boxer with 60 hp coupled to a gearbox with four speeds plus reverse. First gear switch castella you only incidentally from standstill to avoid. castella Teeth The carriage is completely custom but still there-apart from the logo's-a few subtle hints to tell you that this gem is based on the Porsche 356. The front and rear are from the Porsche 356 and the vent valve in the engine is the 356 coming. That engine valve still is, moreover, at the back of the car, the block also depends on these Beutler Porsche attach behind the rear axle. Furthermore, the carriage completely replaced.
The carriage castella of Gebrüder Beutler body is made entirely of aluminum and seems inspired by a number of other cars from the fifties. A touch of English, a large spoonful of Italian and German here and there. All these influences are then targeted in the blender with the Swiss precision of the Beutler Brothers. The finish of this device is really impressive. The joints between the bodywork are so close that I almost find it scary to do, close the door so close to each other at the seams.
The vlagele copy of 1958 where we drive it today is completely restored by order of the previous (American) owner. It had a lot of feet into the earth, for combining aluminum with steel base plate of the Beetle proved a guarantee for stubborn rust. Eventually it became a full body-off restoration. The only thing that needed to be restored was the beautiful green interior. The car was after the restoration of a classic Mercedes-Maple Yellow color-sprayed because the owner liked it better than the beige color which he had purchased the car.
Now the car so in Dutch hands, and the owner let me drive around castella in it. The left of the s