Jim,
thanks! thats a great site.
Its amazing just how many ways the vdub was "sliced & diced".
Back in the early 70's Willis VW up in Burlington was making a version called the "Glitter Bug'. Mr Willis was buying every used beetle they could find in good shape and hitting them with a fast "1960s metal flake" paint job. They even had a "Glitter Bug" sticker which ended up on the front deck lid. I went to Burlington County Colloge for a couple of semesters and remember many of them in the parking lot. I think they were priced as a good second car which a student could afford.
As a side note I heard that Willis VW was also doing a lot of Corvair engine swaps into early campers. They were swapping the whole power train, engine and transmission into campers and mostly they were using cars with automatic power glide transaxils.
There was supposed to be a pile of corvair bodies behind the dealership stacked up like firewood.
Amazing when you consider how things have changed. Today nothing like that would ever happen. Imagine swapping a suburu engine into a new beetle body, nobody would touch it.
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