VF was a Belgian beach buggy manufacturer based in Namur, founded and driven by François Vernimmen in the early 1970s, during a wave of small artisan European constructors building open buggies with lightweight fiberglass bodies on Volkswagen Beetle-based chassis. Unlike most such builders, who reused or shortened salvaged Beetle chassis and sold their buggies only as kits, VF manufactured its own reinforced chassis in-house and supplied only ready-to-drive vehicles, avoiding…