Volks,
A friend is restoring a late 1950s-vintage VW Type 1 police car. A friend
has offered him a German “jerry can” – a 20-liter fuel can – that he
proposes to mount onto the outside.
Questions: (1) Has anybody ever seen a German police car with a gasoline
can mounted on the outside? Where and how?
And
(2) Has anybody ever seen a civilian beetle – late 50s
vintage – with an outside jerry can mounted? Where and how?
My own thought is that the running board cannot support a bouncy jerry can
without some reinforcement, and that a gas can is too vulnerable no matter
where it’s mounted. But maybe the Germans knew something we don’t. Can
anybody help with authenticity counseling?
Bert Knupp in Music City USA
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