We are planning on a little bit of a different restoration on this beetle. We are wanting to update the car a little and give the interior more of a modern look. Also we will be upgrading the engine to get MORE POWER :)
Origonally were were thinking of putting a small subaru engine in the back of the little bug since I have lots of experience with subaru engines with hovercrafts.
One night my wife Tiffany said that she didn't really want a "whimpy" 4 cyl engine in the car and asked if I could put a 6cyl engine in it. I told her if I was going to do all that work then I might as well just put a 350 in the bug............................. And she said sure!!!!!!!!!!! So thats our plan, we'll be building ourselves a 350 powered hot rod convertible beetle, it should be interesting. We aren't building it to race or anything, just a fun toy. We bought a c-20 pickup for a donor vehicle with 5000 miles and a remanufactured 350 and 143,000 on the rest of the truck. We'll probably end up picking up an s-10 chassis and using that, but we'll see what happens.....
We like the looks of the beetle, but don't really care if its all origonal, so we are going to make it look the way we want it to......................... We will see how it turns out.