View Full Version : OMG...This has got me wanting a Bug
NorCam
11-07-2018, 03:37 AM
Tell me this bug hasn't got "right on brother" written all over it.
https://scontent.fyxd1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/45642434_10213078875271916_7891212952756289536_o.j pg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_eui2=AeFWhWCgdVAGuovJWDh6bwh4P4Fm0d87c7-2pVniH5bSZb1ackq8Rkz5CQigKbzTeLGRXNwitSglxxJG-xGrifIMVva2Y1h3KwMuO3CiJzGq6A&_nc_ht=scontent.fyxd1-1.fna&oh=67d758de93ccb7a2cfd18c4d02495d3a&oe=5C3C09A8
wheelhop
11-07-2018, 04:05 AM
be nice if you could fit into it!
mssl72
11-07-2018, 05:12 AM
Nicely done Bug! I have a soft spot for Bugs. My first car was a '63 Bug.
JKZ27
11-07-2018, 09:45 AM
Nicely done Bug! I have a soft spot for Bugs.
X2! My first car was a 71 Beetle.
Rumbleguts396
11-07-2018, 10:26 AM
I have always wanted one myself. Growing up my Dad always seemed to have two of them in the driveway. One being his everyday car and a junker for parts. The junker was always unlocked and I spent many an afternoon being behind the wheel pretending to drive it. Great memories!!! Rob
m22mike
11-07-2018, 11:18 AM
be nice if you could fit into it!
Speak for yourself there Jim.....:naughty:
:haha:
seventieshow
11-07-2018, 12:39 PM
I saw that car last year at Hot August Nights in Reno...it is fantastic. Has a 215 aluminum Buick and straight pipes, sounds wicked.
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/bug-thats-actually-buick/
NorCam
11-07-2018, 01:11 PM
Thank you Sir for that link. The rest of the car screams the same high end design and implementation as the topside. I love the Buick dash, drive line and of course those Buick Special portholes that tie it all together on the outside.
Wicked wicked car!
https://st.hotrod.com/uploads/sites/21/2017/12/003-Berlin-Buick-Beetle.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-none&fit=around%7C660%3A495&fit=around%7C596%3A447
https://st.hotrod.com/uploads/sites/21/2017/12/007-Berlin-Buick-Beetle.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-none&fit=around%7C660%3A495&fit=around%7C596%3A447
seventieshow
11-07-2018, 01:15 PM
You are welcome. The car is outstanding, I remember it did well in the show car competitions and there are Ridler Award class cars at HAN. But hearing it run was best.
markinnaples
11-07-2018, 01:36 PM
That's killer. Took some creative thinking to come up with a Buick-Bug combo.
NorCam
11-07-2018, 01:40 PM
You are welcome. The car is outstanding, I remember it did well in the show car competitions and there are Ridler Award class cars at HAN. But hearing it run was best.
The Berlin Buick
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OcFab
11-07-2018, 02:37 PM
Here is a 1951 VW we are building at Mascar
OcFab
11-07-2018, 02:40 PM
Mascar 51 Split
Keith Seymore
11-07-2018, 03:00 PM
Wow. What a cool car and great thread.
That's killer. Took some creative thinking to come up with a Buick-Bug combo.
LOL. Here's the original "Buick Bug" -
K
x33rs
11-07-2018, 05:26 PM
My son daily drives a 65 bug. We've had an air cooled VW powered sand rail for years that I tool around town in as well as adventure off road. Always liked the engines for their simplicity, cheap to build, easy to work on, and have always been dead nuts reliable for us.
MotionPerformance67
11-07-2018, 07:09 PM
Love the type 1 VWs. Our old ocean blue '64..
Xplantdad
11-07-2018, 07:15 PM
Mascar 51 Split
Adam...cool as heck! Can't wait to see this one in person!
396L78canuck
11-07-2018, 07:39 PM
Wow that is one killer bug.Bob
Charley Lillard
11-07-2018, 08:00 PM
Mascar 51 Split
Can I have it ?
PeteLeathersac
11-07-2018, 09:48 PM
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Man, that Mascar Split is just sick...:drool:
:beers:
~ Pete
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Bob Jenkins
11-08-2018, 01:18 AM
Nicely done Bug! I have a soft spot for Bugs. My first car was a '63 Bug.
my first car was a '65 Bug, it was black with oversized fiberglass fenders, Corvette ralleys and white letters Daytona tires
JKZ27
11-08-2018, 02:41 AM
I'm so glad you guys appreciate the old VWs, even though the Berlin Buick retains little of the air cooled charm. As a kid I rode around in my dad's 67 Beetle and was always curious when he was working on it. We always had a few of them laying around the yard and I developed my own VW collection by my late teens. I sold them all the week I brought home my first 68 Camaro. I rekindled the love when I started racing Formula Vee's in the early 2000's.
Can I have it ?
Sure Charlie, come on by anytime and pick it up :)
Charley Lillard
11-08-2018, 04:41 AM
Perfect !!!!!!
Dave Rifkin
11-08-2018, 12:43 PM
I have a thing for the "Dung Beetle" that is driven by Azn on Street Outlaws
x33rs
11-08-2018, 01:00 PM
LOL
A lot of sleeper beetles out there. There are several running around our neck of the woods that'll embarrass some street cars. Doesn't take much to make them respectable. They only weigh 1500-1600 lbs. Pretty easy to make 150hp with a mild stroker, not much money to do it, and they turn into easy 12 or 13 second sleepers that are a ball of fun to drive.
Tommy
11-09-2018, 12:13 AM
I started out as a bug guy and still go to the vw shows when I can. The Motion Performance Mini VW stuff was always interesting to me as well.
Tommy
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