Albar

In the 1970s, Swiss garage owner and driving instructor Alois Barmettler of Buochs began fitting Volkswagen Beetle platform chassis with open buggy bodies, following a trend common among small manufacturers of the era. He also produced a plastic-bodied model called Sahari, resembling the wartime Volkswagen Kübelwagen, and a sportier coupe named Jet, whose plastic shell came from the Austrian firm Custoka; in Austria the same car was sold as the…