VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em.....

[MSBenko]

https://scontent.ftpa1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/23...e=5B440E46
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Mike

75 Standard Beetle
72 Standard Beetle (first car) sold in '96

[Patty B.]

Is there more on that??^^^^^^^^^^^^

[GArBa]

seeing it has no generator and it's an oval dressed up as a later model, I suppose it's a herbie movie car built for a specific stunt.
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cars:
'97 type 1 1600i
'14 type AA Seat Mii (sadly dead after 270.000 km)
'22 type C1 T-Cross
'23 type AC3 Hyundai I10 (VW no longer makes small cars!)
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moped:
'82 Benelli Magnum 3v

[EVfun]

I see it has a small electric fan and the intake manifold is on backwards too. My best guess is that the body is on the chassis backwards. I think it is a "Herbie" designed for the stunt of high speed driving backward.

I did not know the Bug intake manifold could be bolted on backwards! That could look real clean in a beach buggy. With an electric fuel pump and a hidden crank fire ignition it would be a very minimalist exposed engine.
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[ach60]

It looks too nice, and too well done to be a Herbie Stunt Car,
but there in nothing in the photo to say it's not a Herbie Stunt Car.
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Good Luck
Al

[caleb0101]

[MSBenko]

I found the picture on an aircooled VW Facebook group. No information was with the picture, but it really belongs here.
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Mike

75 Standard Beetle
72 Standard Beetle (first car) sold in '96

[TDCTDI]

[slave1pilot]

The "backwards Herbie" is at Nelson's Garage Car and Motorcycle Museum in Deadwood, SD
It is a 1957 with the body mounted backwards so that the steering is done from the "rear" wheels for Herbie Rides again.

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My Photobucket for my Herbie Project - http://s1288.photobucket.com/user/TK-439/library/Herbie?sort=3&page=1

Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[MSBenko]

I would love to see how the steering is setup on this. You can see in the picture that the steering wheel is still in the correct location.
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Mike

75 Standard Beetle
72 Standard Beetle (first car) sold in '96

[GArBa]

I bet the wheel in the correct location is a dummy and the actual steering wheel and all the controls face backwards hidden somewhere below the beltline.
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cars:
'97 type 1 1600i
'14 type AA Seat Mii (sadly dead after 270.000 km)
'22 type C1 T-Cross
'23 type AC3 Hyundai I10 (VW no longer makes small cars!)
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moped:
'82 Benelli Magnum 3v

[Bunglebus]

http://www.memminger-roadster.de/
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[Bunglebus]

Photoshop someone sent me;

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[GArBa]

last one is a photoshop... and not even a good one.

edit - sorry didn't read the first line of the message
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cars:
'97 type 1 1600i
'14 type AA Seat Mii (sadly dead after 270.000 km)
'22 type C1 T-Cross
'23 type AC3 Hyundai I10 (VW no longer makes small cars!)
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moped:
'82 Benelli Magnum 3v

[Fish]

Porsche actually cut 17 inches out of this 911 to make it look more like the cartoon car Disney/Pixar drew for The movie CARS.

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# 303 and #156

Stop dead photo links! Post your photos to The Samba Gallery!

[Danpa]

[73sports]

[Patty B.]

THAT! Is how you do it!
Take notes VW!

[awreed]

Amazing f'ing car! I love the late model inspiration. I'd love to see the engine-- no shots of it in the video.

[andk5591]

Most people get the retro styling thing soooooo wrong (Prowler, SSR, 2001-2005 T-Bird the to name a few)....THAT VW roadster is almost perfect - they blew it with the rear bumper - integrating a front bumper in the back would have worked much better IMHO...and theres one or two little things, but otherwise great work..
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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...