A complete one off, and so it is lucky to survive, is now in the hands of Bob Shaill in southern England, a long term Volkswagen enthusiast who lovingly restored this unique 2+2 seater Stoll Coupé

Originally this car was built between 1952 and 1954 for a Herr Bernard, who originally had his eye on a Hebmüller, but decided to commission his own car after the demise of that firm in 1952.

The two year project to create a hard top conversion, similar to the now lost Hebmüller hard top coupe prototype. The redesign featured a reworked rear roof, and custom decklid, based on the Beetle sedan part.

Herr Bernard owned the car from 1954 until 1969, from whence it began its long journey towards Bob Shaill's garage.

In 1969 it was sold to two wandering Americans, travelling around Europe, who obviously went far since the car was sold on in 1971 with 370,000 km on the clock. 71 saw the car arrive in England (where possibly the travellers caught the plane home) and was registered under the license plate of EAN 24J.

The car was then stolen and subsequently went through two VW enthusiasts who never got round to the work or expense of restoring the vehicle.

Eventually Bob Shaill acquired what he saw as a unique model and began a 14 year project of restoration and research. He has brought the Stoll Coupé back to life and rescued a one-off piece of Volkswagen history. Not surprisingly Bob Shaill also owns a restored Hebmüller. The Stoll now resides in the VW Museum at Wolfsburg.

We went to see a good friend, which has a really breathtaking collection. Low mileage speedster, cool jagdwagen and a dream of an early pre-A splitwindow.  Few years ago, he owned a splitbus with Porsche engine, mmmjamie. To whom it may concern, everything will be fine really soon. Keep your head up!

MMMMM, pure nostalgia. I love it. This picture reflects the good old days! To bad these days passed by. We should see more of this vintage stuff, don’t you think?

 

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Technische Daten: Modell 	Enzmann 506
Baujahr  	1960
Hersteller 	Enzmann (Schweiz)
km-Stand 	unbekannt, aber weniger als 100.000 km
Leistung 	100 PS
Motor 	Porsche 356
Beschleunigung 0-100 km/h 	ca. 8,5 sec.
Hubraum 	1600 ccmKraftübertragung 	4-Gang-Getriebe
Getriebe 	Handschaltung
Bremsen 	Porsche Trommelbremsen
Chassis 	VW-Käfer-Chassis
Felgen 	5,5 x 15 mangels Porsche 356-Style
Reifen 	Goodyear eagle F1 195/60/15
Tankinhalt 	45 Liter
Verbrauch, ca 10 l/100 kmLänge
Länge, Breite, Höhe 	2,40m; 1,60m; ca. 1,10m
Gewicht 	550 kg

You have certainly heard the term " OKRASA ", but many people don't know what an Okrasa engine actually is. This article will describe the characteristics that make up a vintage Okrasa motor, and why they are so rare and expensive.

Back in the early 1950's (1951), Gerhard OETINGER came out with a kit, which they called "OKRASA", which stands for "Oettingers KRAftfahrtechnisher Spezial Anstalt". Now, this has already been cleared out.

The Okrasa kit beefed up the engine with dual carbs, special cylinder heads and pistons (note the nice koch gauhe). The Okrasa engine was the racecar engine for its day. The Okrasa engine could get a VW as fast as 87 mph, compared to 76mph. The acceleration from 0-60 improved by three seconds. Horsepower on a stock VW is at 30HP at 3700rpm, while the Okrasa was 40HP at 4500rpm

There were two Okrasa kits available, the TS-1200 and the TS-1300/30.

The TS-1200 used a pair of Okrasa high compression twin-port cylinder heads with twin port manifolds, dual Solex 32PBIC carbs as used on early Porsches, carb linkages, balance pipes etc. Optional extras included a Fram oil filter, which could be mounted on the fan housing and Okrasa's own oil cooler - coiled copper tubing behind the fan housing. The new heads offered a compression ratio boost from 6.6 to 7.5:1.

The TSV-1300/30 Kit was much more complete, it came with the same parts as the TS-1200 but also included a 69.5mm chrome-moly crank which gave a capacity of 1295cc. The crank was also '8 doweled' to the flywheel. Clearancing was required with the stroker crank.

Car got some serious potential. Nice slam- and paintjob, oldspeed engine treatment and a set of cool nostalgia wheels. MMMMM, I would like to cruise this car on the pitoresk roads of Flanders.

While the Beetle and its derivatives were emerging from the ashes of pots-war Germany ; over in Austria, sports cars were also beginning to emerge. While the Porsche is undoubtedly the most famous offspring of Austria ; the firm of Denzel also turned their considerable skills to sporting coupes based on the trusty early vdubs.

Wolfgang Denzel had been an engineer and keen motorsport enthusiast before the war ; having raced various BMW motorcycles and sports cars. After the war ; along with Hubert Stroinigg ; he designed and built a one off sports car on a Kubelwagen chassis. The first Denzel had a hand built wooden body, and while it retained the Kubelwagens 25hp engine ; its low weight did the car well in the 1949 Austrian Alpine Rally ; gaining first place.

Spurred on by this success, and with demand for sporting coupes becoming evident Denzel began work on a production prototype which was completed in 1951. The production car had an aluminium body on a tubular steel frame. Although the body of the car was entirely Denzel (and shorter than the Beetle) the suspension and engine were Volkswagen.

The engine was especially prepared by Denzel to get more power out of the flat four VW engine. When production started in 1953, the low power "Seriensuper" model featured a respectable 1281cc 52 HP engine, while the racy Super International came with a 1290cc 64hp unit. The body remained much the same as the 1951 production prototype ; and it is interesting to know that the bodies came from the firm of Karosseriefabrik F K Gesellschaft, a Viennese firm that also produced some of the early Porsche 356 bodies.

The production car came with Lockheed drum brakes, and somewhat rare for as dedicated sports car of the time ; the car could seat 3 (the driver had a bucket seat next to a double front seat for the passengers), heating and decent windscreen wipers. This made the Denzel an excellent enthusiasts sports car.

But Denzel's aim was really to race ; and at the wheel of one of his Super International models (along with co driver Hubert Stroinigg) that he took first place in the 1954 Alpine Rally ; surprising many of the more established racing firms. Only 37 of the 87 cars that took part finished, and the Denzel even beat the infamous Sterling Moss; who could only finish tenth with is Sunbeam Alpine. Denzel ceased production of what for me may be called was one of the best VW based coupes ever built in 1959 ; at which time around 350 had been built. The firm of Denzel still exists today, and keeps two examples of the roadster at its showroom in Vienna. But that is not the end of the Denzel story ; for while you will likely never see one at usual Vw show ; they are still alive and kicking in the States and still being raced! Keep on rolling - they were designed for motorsport.

Warren Goodwin was the founder of Fiberfab. The cars were built in California, Pennsylvania and Florida. The company went through a couple of owners, and was later purchased by Classic Motor Carriages (CMC).

Fiberfab built several fiberglass bodies during the 60's to mount on the chassis of your choice - usually a wrecked british sportscar or VW. The idea? To be able to deliver a purchased car within 24 hours!

Various cars were produced, including the Avenger, Valkyrie, the Aztec GT and Aztec 7, the GT II, Jamaican, and others. The most popular being the Avenger, Valkyrie and Aztec 7 models.

Fiberfab as it grew also had a million dollar a year advertising budget, displaying cars in airports around the country, and later Television advertising.

Before its untimely death, fiberfab had sold more than 25 000 kit cars worldwide. most were sold in the USA with Canada, Japan, South America, the UK and Europe, in that order, accounting for biggest sales. The biggest seller being the MG-TD, with over 10 000 kits being sold.

Fiberfab today

 

Tim, alias Tipi, owns this supersexy early S model notch with nearly all "must haves" what type3 nuts want

detailed early empi sprintstars on a type3
yea man,
.... go baby !!!
Have a look at the DWL guys

Great wheels. All I could found on Tero's site is that they have been manufactured in Australia. We should plan a trip over there and dig up a nice set! Have a look at Tero’s awesome site. Henry Roberts just opened a topic on the Samba forum.