Member-Only Feature: Rünge Cars Steps Into the Future

New Builds to Feature Twin-Cam Four-, Six-, and Eight-Cylinder Air-Cooled Engines

Photography courtesy of Alex Papke / FXD.

Christopher Rünge, a self-described coach builder and automobile designer, began Rünge Cars with the humblest of intentions. A desire in 2010 to have something to rip around in nearby Minnesotan corn fields—a lightweight, aluminum bodied Porsche-Volkwagen mashup, to be exact—quickly evolved into a bona fide business in constructing cars for paying customers. Using post-war metal-shaping techniques, Rünge and his son bend aluminum to the will of their mind’s eyes in a way that’s decidedly low tech by today’s standards but seriously impressive by virtue of it.

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