RaleighSS

Found this on Ebay .... I think it would be cool to have on the track .... You surely would be the only one with one of these out there.. Now the coolness may diminish quickly but do think it could be fun for a while...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1966-...item3f06a22d77

CrabbyDaddy

I am pretty certain that you would be the only one out there in one of these
It would be fun once maybe twice

L98Terror

That is Awesome, how old do you have to be to even know who Herbie is?

oh1vette

^^^^^

50's

bjm

I saw that as well, it actually looks like a half way decent car. If you like VWs!!

shakedown067

Very cool!

parkerracing

The coolness factor would last forever IF it could do all the things Herbie did in the movies, otherwise not so much.

The two things that struck me were the 200 mph tape holding down the hood (trunk? WTF?)

And how bad do you need to sell a Beetle that you would take pix during a BLIZZARD! (can you imagine the snow drift in the interior now?) /:\

BrianCunningham

I actually knew someone that autocrossed a vintage '50's VW back in Detroit.

Git Er Dun

I like what appears to be the huge air cooling duct system that runs from the front and through the middle of the car!! Hahaha!

John Shiels

May be to keep #3 cylinder cool as it was the one that overheated first on VW.

Jaymz

I was wondering what in the hell the stove pipe was doing running thru the passenger side of the car..

it's at $2100 right now.. I'd give him that for it just to drive it around town.

0Randy@DRM

My first car was a VW bug. Bought it when on the summer I turned 13. Many hours of blasting in the sand of AZ during the next two summers. It's been 10 years since it was seen by human eyes. At some point I would love to get it up here and have it around. But it's not rusting down there

Randy

longdaddy

what, no 911 jokes yet?

i'll start:

cheapest race-prepared SCCA legal porsche money can buy....

PaConehead

Is it possible that the duct/pipe is a cooling duct for the rear air cooled engine - maybe a LG or DRM track mod .

0Randy@DRM

Funny you say sometime about that. I'm doing a rear mount radiator on my personal project.

Randy

wallyman424

I'm pretty sure it would cease to be cool as soon as you exited pit lane :P

0Randy@DRM

My project If you know something about this application, please get a hold of me........ Because I'm going in with a good plan, no testing and low $$$

wallyman424

wait, you bought a beetle? seriously?

sundiego

My 8 year old was transfixed when this came out in DVD. He was 3 at the time.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400497/

Herbie Fully Loaded.

It starred Lindsay Lohan in 2005. I don't think Disney is hiring her anymore, now it's Lindsay fully loaded.

I raced a GT350 for years that came with the number 53 on it. It was pointed out to me a few times that that was Herbie's number.

PaConehead

Looks like the headlights are the air intakes and the duct runs through the cabin. That"s a fairly large duct, I'm just not sure where all that air is going. I'm sure your project will be more functional from a design standpoint - if this is an engine cooling system, seems there would be an easier, lighter way to pull air. Good luck