8 – Beetle Salzburg
At some point in the early 1970s, the sole Porsche dealership operating in Austria decided it wanted to enter cars in rally races. For the sake of originality, it chose to modify a Beetle rather than adopt one of its prestigious own models.
The real aim of course was to boost sales of the model, which were stagnating at the time. The rally version got a reworked engine that doubled the amount of horses available to 129, and it borrowed the five-speed manual gearbox of the Porsche 914. In Europe today, it’s not uncommon to see reproductions of this rally Beetle at classic-car get-togethers.
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