Sheesh, if I'd know my gripe-posting yesterday would've resulted in a collective effort to bring a historic-spec Hakosuka into existence (or at least closer to it), I would've been a lot less snarky. Y'all are fantastic.
And now I'm thinking of another possible project I could start or at least contribute to somewhere down the road: taking
this race-tuned Beetle and giving it skins and specs and maybe even the necessary bodykit/aero add-ons to match the Autohaus Kaufmann-tuned 1302S that ran the 6 Hours of Nurburgring a few times in the early '70s. It's not the most well-known race car, but ever since I learned about it I immediately wanted to know what it would be like to throw an unusually quick Bug through the Green Hell. Sadly it seems like a really hard car to get any detailed info on if you don't know German, but someone
already made a version of it for GT Legends (you might need an account to view this) so the specs are probably attainable one way or another.
Sports Car Racing Photo Gallery - Nürburgring 6 Hours 1972 - VW Type 1 no.78
www.racingsportscars.com