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PostPosted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:58 pm    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:35 pm    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

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interesting set-up with front engine and rear trans
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Kinda like a Porsche 928.

I think it would need a steady bearing on the transaxle input shaft
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 10:31 am    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

^ correct, you can just see the two 'input' shafts behind the upper foreground connecting bolt thing.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 10:28 am    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

I’m thinking it’s not installed in the pic. It would have to be above the tunnel.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:42 am    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

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interesting set-up with front engine and rear trans
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Kinda like a Porsche 928.


Is the drive shaft showing in the picture?
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 11:58 am    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

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interesting set-up with front engine and rear trans
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Kinda like a Porsche 928.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 3:04 am    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

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interesting set-up with front engine and rear trans
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still from this annoyingly edited video

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 10:56 am    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

Are we including plastic Beetles in this lot?

This thing definitely deserves a place here.

Cummins-powered New Beetle.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 6:55 am    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 25, 2025 12:41 pm    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

looks promising until...what the heck happened to the back end? Shocked
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 10:01 am    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

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is this AI's opinion of the beetle's engine? Laughing

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Maybe just the angle, but she looks right handed.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 1:54 pm    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

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is this AI's opinion of the beetle's engine? Laughing

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 1:51 pm    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

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is this AI's opinion of the beetle's engine? Laughing

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The BPH/IBS option package ...
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 12:58 pm    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

is this AI's opinion of the beetle's engine? Laughing

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 12:56 pm    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

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I wonder if the fireplace works?


it's more of a gas burner than a fireplace - but it does have a cuckoo clock! more photos here - https://www.super-deco.com/la-volkswagen-coccinell...sur-roues/
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 7:00 am    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

I wonder if the fireplace works?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 6:13 am    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

Wow, that one even has gutters! Probably don't even need to turn on the banana leaf wipers when it rains.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 5:53 am    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

^ I think that's the 'outhouse' that goes with this Laughing

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 5:15 am    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

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1970 Beetle listing, it has a title...

"This is a customized Volkswagen barbecue grill. The drag engine you see A working barbecue grill Inside the truck, wagon is a cooler.You fill with water and the water comes out of Barrel. Everything works the lights. It does have a Title Inch and 7/8 ball. Four hitch Take it to car shows bug outs and cook your lunch"
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 10:51 am    Post subject: Re: VW abortions, homemade bastards, post em..... Reply with quote

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The wide hood(super?) and grilles kill the front end.


Listed as a 1971 Beetle. "Bad credit? No credit? We've got financing for EVERYONE-because everyone deserves their dream ride!" and "they're flying off the lot faster than Santa's sleigh!" Laughing
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