WORTHERSEE: VW fan creates 390kW Kombi turbo
Swiss Volkswagen enthusiast rescues '62 Kombi from scrap yard and transforms it into the unlikeliest of track hacksGTI fans at the annual Worthersee car festival have been stunned by a Volkswagen Kombi restoration with a difference.
Called the Volkswagen T1 Race Taxi, the Kombi creation is the work of Swiss VW enthusiast Fred Bernhard.
Bernhard found the 1962 split-window T1 Kombi in a scrap yard and set about creating his dream car.
With the T1's chassis too rotten to be saved, Bernhard painstakingly adapted the T1 body to fit a much later, wider (210mm) and longer (250mm) '85 T5 Transporter.
Once the body was fitted work began on stripping the guts out of the Transporter to accommodate a much larger 390kW/757Nm 3.6-litre twin-turbo air-cooled flat-six from a Porsche 911 (993).
Next, Berhard overhauled the van's brakes and added the Porsche's discs and large calipers, even including the early '90s coupe's ABS.
Finally, a quartet of four-point harness bucket seats were added to match the Kombi’s racing car theme.
The T1 Race Taxi, which also features a full rollover cage, is capable of reaching more than 230km/h.
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