Kugel replica
The replica kugel you refer to Mike was built by myself and Robin Mawson for use with the Geelong Military Re enactment Group quite a few years ago now. We had no vehicle to use to represent the German side so we built the replica on a donated 67 VW Beetle chassis. At that time there was no one making replica panels so I did all the body sheet metal from scratch while Robin took care of the mechanicals. A Kombi rear end was used for the rear reduction drive and to raise the rear end and adapters were made to raise the front end. 16 wheels we made using Ford Prefect rims on VW centers with a 10 mm spacer ring and all welded up. The three pieces were aligned by spinning them on the raised front hub. Not exactly precision engineering but they were within a couple of mm runout and never gave any trouble. The plans we used were nothing more than up scaling a 9th scale Tamiya model and plenty of photos. Michael McMahon did the canvas work. The vehicle looked the part and was great to drive. It did a lot of miles traveling around Australia for re enactment events. We eventually sold it to another collector in Sydney who changed it from Afika Korps livery to Wehmacht grey. He has since added a few more genuine parts which has improved its appearance.
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