Volkswagen Beetle VW Beetle. Around 2000, worldwide Vee racing had re-established itself as a 1,200/1,300 cc beginner class with wingless cars and VW engines outputting about , but incorporating more modern chassis and tyres. Volkswagen Beetle-style bodies are fitted to space frame racing chassis, and are used in the Uniroyal Fun Cup, which includes the longest continuous motor-race in the world, the 25 Hours of Spa. It is an affordable entry-level series that gentleman drivers race. Especially the Austrian sole distributor Porsche Salzburg (now Porsche Austria) seriously entered the Volkswagen in local and European contests in the 1960s and early 1970s. Starting
12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend the SS giving up the struggle for the town and withdrawing around midnight. In his analysis of the fighting against the Canadians of the Regina Rifles Regiment (which contained a number of Sherman and Firefly tanks, as did virtually every Canadian and British regiment) at Bretteville, Cardonville farm and Norrey-en-Bessin, Hubert Meyer, the commanding general of the 12 SS Panzer Division (after Kurt Meyer had been captured in September 1944) wrote later in "The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division" (volume I) that: “The tactic of surprise, using mobile, fast infantry and Panzers even in small,