Owner: Gary Bell

Engine:

• Air-cooled pancake opposed four-cylinder engine
• Okrasa dual-port cylinder heads
• Solex 32PBIC carburetors
• Abarth quad-tip mufflers

Body:

• Semaphore turn signals
• Euro bumpers
• Sliding ragtop sunroof
• Period-correct performance upgrades

Interior: by Sutton Konceptz in Desert Hot Springs, CA

• Wolfsburg West seat upholstery

This stunning 1957 didn’t come together by accident, because Gary Bell drew from the rich Volkswagen history to perfect this model.