Many a Volkswagen has been rebodied in fiberglass. From dune buggies to GT40 knockoffs, we thought we’d about seen everything along those lines, until Greg Gjerdingen posted the above shot to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, taken at the Willmar Car Club‘s annual car show back in May. Who would’ve ever thought to pair a Fifties fiberglass boat with a Volkswagen chassis?
Greg didn’t leave many details or the name of a builder, but the photos seem to tell the tale. The Falls Flyer was one of several boat models built by Larson Boat Works in Little Falls, Minnesota, introduced in 1939 as a wooden boat. In 1954, a few years after the 1949 fire that destroyed much of the Larson Boat Works, Paul Larson introduced an updated fiberglass version of the Falls Flyer, which you see on the trailer in these shots. Towing it with a big modern truck would have been too facile; instead, the owner of this Falls Flyer planted a second Falls Flyer body on a VW chassis, added the requisite headlamps, taillamps and tow bar, and painted and trimmed it to match.
We salute you, unnamed Larson Falls Flyer enthusiast. We double salute you if the tow vehicle is amphibious as well.