Anyone got a Beetle?

[LordNikon]

http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/

Insane! :eek:

[---Matt---]

Extreeeeeeme! I remember seeing a similar Toyota MR2 on Ebay a while back. Damn California has whacked out laws!

That'd make for an interestingly fast drive up to Darwin where there's no speed limits :p I'd love to hear what the cops would say too!

---Matt---

[.:Easily:.]

i remember seeing that in a car mag a while back

damn it would be loud inside the car

[danv]

http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/images/VW_Rear_Pa1_PScopy.jpg
http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/images/AB12_15_05copy.jpg

Wow, that is phenomenal. Mucho respecto for the guy that engineered that beast. I love that idea of having two engines to make it street legal. I wonder we can lobby the PM to subsidise jet engine conversions. Hell yeah!

"Car was built to look as if VW delivered the car this way. It handles fine and is safe. I was thinking of putting it into an import car show but the promoter told me that it looked too plain and recommended that I put some decals on it, lower it, and put on some aftermarket wheels. Sure kid, put on some flimsy wheels won't take a curb and don't center on the hubs, lower the car so the tires rub and get cut by the body using springs that bounce me all over the road, and advertise for companies that couldn't engineer themselves out of a paper bag. I would have thought the 14" diameter tailpipe was enough for him but I guess it wasn't. Response from the hot rod magazines has been slow. One editor told me that is because I didn't use anything they advertise. But the response to driving it on the street and going to the hot rod shows (San Francisco Custom Car Show, Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona, and the Detroit Autorama) has been fantastic. This car attracts crowds better than any '32 Ford, '69 Camaro, or decaled Honda. "

I find this paragraph quite interesting. Marketing, brand name bullshit really ruins vehicle modification and customization for me. Innovation, integrity and character please, not internal combustion advertising banners and every shade of annodization under the sun.

[donthucktoflat]

aaah, so THAT's the back of them new beetles!

[tassiehardtail]

We have a burnt out shell of one somewhere in the bush at dads from the '67 bushfires but none like that.


bugger

[Rik]

So this is how they're trying to tap in to the "soul" of the old Beetle? If you can't have the fuel lines split and set the engine on fire, put a jet engine in it instead!

[---Matt---]

Aynone for an action shot?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xo5GY4kDXg

---Matt---