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Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:50 pm

Anyone ever seen one of these
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=90961
made out of a Super Beetle?

I couldn't find anything with a search here or on google. if anyone has any links to the kit conversion or otherwise to make one of these, it would be appreciated.

- b

Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:55 pm

I know someone that has one. Not sure on all the details, but I think his is a whole new outter skin from a kit.

Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:56 pm

Doesn't look like a Super unless those front fenders were added on. They are from a pre-67.

Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:42 pm

Looks like someone hacked up a Bus.

Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:39 pm

I've seen one of those in a super old issue of VWT. Very similar to this one. They used the rear of a baywindow bus. It had the side vents and all. The dead give-away here is the bus pop-out window and the contours of the belt line. I would bet the rear opens like the hatch of a bus.

Fri Oct 08, 2004 6:07 am

79SuperVert wrote: Doesn't look like a Super unless those front fenders were added on. They are from a pre-67.

True, but since you're hacking from behind the doors, it really shouldn't matter?

Larry

Fri Oct 08, 2004 7:06 am

That looks a lot better then those vandetta kits. I usually hate those but I kinda like this one. :oops:

Sun Nov 14, 2004 7:36 pm

Look at that ragtop! That set him back a few bucks. My middleschool drafting teacher had a beetle that he had grafted in the rear of a panel van. He used it for his chimney sweep business. Looked kinda cool with his pristine wooden ladders on the roof racks. Last time I drove by the cottage where I grew up in the summers, he still had it, still clean as a whistle. He even always wore a top hat.

Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:22 pm

Vandetta:

I like yours better.

Mon Nov 15, 2004 4:35 pm

Fowvay wrote: That looks a lot better then those vandetta kits. I usually hate those but I kinda like this one. :oops:

I totally agree. Vandetta's look horrible with those huge "wide body" looking fenders on the rear. But I actually like the looks of the car you have pictured! :D

Fri Nov 19, 2004 1:08 pm

i think i've seen one or two of those at the VW Show at E-town raceway in jersey...

Fri Nov 19, 2004 2:58 pm

That vendetta kit sure is butt ugly. That one you posted isn't bad looking.