I've seen a few aero engined cars but

people usually make some sort of attempt to attach a gear box and drive the road wheels.

gosh.

you wouldn’t want the front end to lift much or you’d be gouging chunks out of the tarmac with the prop.

😯

Great for retreating whilst maintaining a clear view of advancing Russians.

Probably a prototype for the 356 and they realised it may as well have a prop.bv:P

here it is running 😯

No dpf or cat… no chance of an MOT ..

Did you spot that the prop was missing at the end ?

😯 How does he keep the front down? years ago a mate of mine put a Porsche air cooled flat six in a beetle and you could lift the front of the car two foot off the ground with one hand..

No prop pretty obvious all along!

It’s not just me is it?
That’s designed to go backwards, isn’t it?

It’s a tank engine apparently;

http://www.autoblog.com/2013/01/10/prop-driven-vw-beetle-hopes-to-land-in-bonneville-w-video/%5B/url%5D

few articles if you google his name.

Yanks for show, Germans to make it work.

Bloke i know has built a Porsche Cayenne 4×4 engine/gearbox & running system into a 1967 VW camper van, after totally rebuilding the bodywork with a rounded fully glassed back end he now has what is possibly the only 4×4 split screen camper in existence..

Eat your heart out Orange County Choppers! If I ever got round to buying a bike it would either be something mental like that ^^^, or an MTT Y2K (Wikipedia link or, if I was being serious, a KTM RC8 R.