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If we think automatisation is from our generation we’re wrong again… before war they did already things that we simply call amazing… without computers, processors and micro electronics, see how nice this goes! Unbelievable…. Auto assembly in 1936, take ten minutes to watch this video… its almost like harmony.

Lego will pay tribute to the Volkswagen Westfalia camper with a new kit that goes on sale in October. The model is based on a 1962 Volkswagen bus with the sought-after pop-top camper option. The interior even features a sink and dinette, along with the all important bench seat-cum-double bed.

Lego’s hippie hooptie features the classic tri-colour V paint scheme up front, a lava lamp inside, and a “Make LEGO models not war” T-shirt hanging in the window. In back, there’s even a replica of the van’s flat-four engine wedged between the rear axle and the floor.

According to the model’s designer, the hardest thing was translating the VW’s curves to brick form, but it looks like they got as close as possible, given the medium. Check out a video of Lego’s assembly-required homage to the Volkswagen Bus by clicking on the link below:

News source: Lego, 14 August 2011.