I suppose one could just unbolt the fenders and go drive - but then you'd be without lights - so it'd probably take a bit more planning - wouldn't it?
Whatever you do - I mean after all it's your car - but - don't trash a solid Beetle - they suffered enough through the Baja bug days - and good, solid bugs from the 50's and 60's are getting kinda hard to find (back in the dark ages they were, at most, $100.00 cars, so we didn't show much mercy) -
To do it right I'd think (at the least) you'd want to build up a nice, powerful dual port engine, cut and rotate the beam (to lower the front), alter the fenders a bit -
"back in the day" (1970's) a pal of mine and I grafted a chopped steel top onto an ancient ('59 or '60) 'vert bug body mounted to a '68 pan - the goal was a hard-top (no 'b' pillars when the windows were down) - considering we chopped up three bugs to make one there's no way I'd even consider taking that path today (hell, I could retire if I'd restored that old 'vert rather than used it for a project!)
Just one old farts opinion
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06-16-2007, 05:00 PM
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