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while I loved living the memories of my friends muscle cars and the 70's, I'm proud to say on the pelican board that I was "the other guy" with a 1970 bug as his first car, and yes I'm double proud to say it was lime green, red velour interior, flared fiberglass fenders, did my own tuck and roll door panels, and was a big bore 1835 with dual webers and a god awful loud cherry bomb type exhaust.

Me and buddies would time our engine changes, (I went through 3 clutches and 2 trannies in a couple years learning to fish tail it) and had an engine drop down to about 10-12 minutes till I put on the dual carbs which slowed us down some.

Skateboard was my engine stand. Pulled the engine every couple months just for another coat of Krylon paint.

Ran it down the strip a couple times, good memories of a VW engine blow contest at a car show drag track event, where they drained all the oil out and wired the throttle wide open, and he who guessed most close to when it blew or seized, won a prize.

Gene Berg rocked the VW world with 2180's and 2235? cc big bore engines, and he beat a 427 V8 stuffed into the back of a bug, with an Eldorado FWD engine swap.

lime green and red velour, and yes it had fuzzy dice.


grins, don't make me pull out photos of it.