Can you fit a bug shell in a pickup bed?

[THX 1138]

Wondering if anyone knows if you can fit a 50's bug without fenders or pan in the bed of an f150? Going to pick up a project and would rather not take my trailer if I can fit it in the bed.

[my59]

How wide is the inside of the bed of the truck?
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[THX 1138]

Its about 50.5 inches inside the wheelhouses and 65" from side to side above the wheelhouses. Do you know how wide a bug is from sill to sill? Thanks for any help.

[Mike Fisher]

The guy I bought these from was a trucker and rigged up my Dakota to haul them home like this! I returned his big truck ratchet strap & 2X8 when I went back for the second chassis.

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69 FI/AT square Daily Driver
66 sunroof,67,70,71,71,71AT,72,72AT,73 Parts
two 57 oval ragtops sold
'68 Karmann Ghia sold

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[windfish]

A quick search says it'll fit
Or, at least, others have made it fit.

The owner's guides list dimensions - http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/type1.php
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[Rathguten]

I've done this many times and can say that it does fit, though it will stick out some. Make sure to secure it and tie a red flag to the end hanging off the bed and your good to go.

[Dwayne1m]

[jason]

It will fit in an el camino, i borrowed one when I moved. Should fit a bigger truck no problem.

[hitest]

[Mike Fisher]

The nose was well wedged into my bedliner & it was secure for 100 miles home on Interstate 5. The bad part was riding my brakes all the way down the steep gravel road off his mountain near Oakland, OR. My V8/automatic transmission doesn't have any compression braking & our front brakes were just Smoking at the bottom of that grade! I barely got us stopped before we rolled out onto the 2 lane highway. They looked a little more secure, when they went on to Boise, ID about a year later.

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69 FI/AT square Daily Driver
66 sunroof,67,70,71,71,71AT,72,72AT,73 Parts
two 57 oval ragtops sold
'68 Karmann Ghia sold

Society is like stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you end up with a lot of scum on the top! - Russ_Wolfe/Edward Abbey

[KTPhil]

Early morning at the Pomona swap meet a few years back:

[andk5591]

I think I have transported a shell in a Ranger. Almost positive. I know I did the cab for the bug hearse (cut off behind B pillars.)
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D-Dubya Manx clone - 63 Short pan,1914.
Rosie 65 bug - My mostly stock daily driver.
Woodie 69 VW woodie (Hot VWs 7/12).
"John's car" 64 VW woodie - The first ever
Maxine 61 Cal-look bug - Cindy's daily driver.
Max - 73 standard Beetle hearse project - For sale
66 bug project - Real patina & Suby conversion
There's more, but not keeping them...

[anthracitedub]

Hauled a shell in a single cab once.

[hitest]

[Mike Fisher]