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Posts Tagged ‘Karmann Coach Built’

In this weeks guest VW blog post, Grenville Strickland tells the history of the rare but rather cool Karmann Coach Built VW T25 Camper Vans:

The roots of Karmann-Mobil can be traced to the Southern Hemisphere. During a visit to South Africa Wilhelm Karmann Jr. (b. 4th December 1914 Osnabrück, Germany in Osnabrück, Hannover, Germany) saw a Jurgens motorhome built on a VW Type 2 chassis and was so impressed with them, he requested licensed production (it is possible to see some similarity in the badges of early Karmann’s and that of the Jurgens). The Jurgens motorhomes had been launched in 1973.
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