Remember the sprite bugs?

ok surely out of the 1000s of members on here someone had something to do with the building of these things

there were fleets of these things made right across the world back when i was in highschool so it would have been mid 90s as part of some NBA promo thing
i cant remember why, i couldnt give a crap about basketball but they were all sold off after

in aus they were made from Lbugs pulled from wrecking yards, but ive seen standard bugs in the US
they had esky/icechests in the front for....sprite ofcourse... and a basketball hoop thing mounted on the backand from memory some sort of air ride in the back so they could bounce....🙄

i dunno how many were made in aus but theres been 2 on ebay in the last 6 months
one was still in pretty good nick and just had the ball roof removed but the one on there now is pretty trashed but looks to be still intact exceot for the rear hoop

if it was closer id grab it just for the rack and peanut front end and empis 🤓

wow.... lots of rust... scary roof.

Never seen it before. crazy stuff.

its like.... a vee dub for the cone heads

I made them!
I made 6 of them for sprite around 97-8
Steve Muller got the gig and prepped the cars, I made the roof which was soft urethane like a basketball and made the hoops which extended to 10' there were Bose outdoor speakers in the rear quarters and a ice chest under the bonnet they were funky
I cant believe the urethane has held up for so long let alone the vinyl stickers
It will be bitch to get the ball off I used about 2 litres of araldite to glue them on lol
it was a good job.

i knew there'd have to be someone on here with a connection to them

the other that sold a few months ago had the roof removd but still had all the original sprite livery

WOW....................i thought that they just pumped them full of gas and put a heat gun to the roof 🤓

You learn something every day

You thinking of doing this to yours Joel??

as someone on ebay asked: did that happen to the roof when the doors were slammed?

yeah just trying to find out how much sprite advertising will pay me

might stop the cats sleeping on the roof

heck yeh! that one on ebay is just 30 mins drive away from where i live!! might have to go and have a look and update you guys on how it looks??

Never ever seen one...

interesting.... Silver....

I thought You were talking about the BUG eyed Sprite
a sports car from the early 60s...


LEE

I still have the mould in storage if anyone wants a fancy roof😂

Hey Lee, you and me must be on the same wave length, that's what I was thinking.

donn wrote:Hey Lee, you and me must be on the same wave length, .

now THAT is scary!!! 😂

We did routine maintenance at Volksrestore for a few years on the Brisbane cars, there were a few in each state I thought.

The story goes......Muller & Muller were selected to build 10 bugs that were loosley based on a US idea. We slected L bugs[1303's] due to the fact the spare wheel could be removed and converted to an ice chest.The rear bumper was then modified to accept a basketball hoop...for those slam dunks. Both rtear windows were removed and made into speaker pods that were waterproof. The colour was that from a sprite drink can, Cooltop peakhust were selected to prefrom this job, finally Wayne from silver surfer productions was choosen to preform the roof structure .....a lot of head banging took place on the whole build program.....but I have to say what a blast and look back with fond memories on what we created cheers steve muller

Bizarre wrote:

donn wrote:Hey Lee, you and me must be on the same wave length, .

now THAT is scary!!! 😂

Not for me but I can imagine Lee getting a bit of a chil up the spine🙅

How bout that, another one on ebay.

This one is missing the stickers and has had a colourful new roof paintjob by the looks and back windows fitted

that roof has lasted 12 years I am very surprised, with the UV i thought that the urethane would have turned to Goo by now........... a testimony to my skills 👍

bajachris88 wrote:its like.... a vee dub for the cone heads

my thoughts exactly!

Bob down wrote:

bajachris88 wrote:its like.... a vee dub for the cone heads

my thoughts exactly!

funny you say that, I was one when I made them 😂

And another one...

This may be the one that was up several years back with the roof and basketball hoop on the back bumper gone.

Certainly not the only one left though...

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1974-VW-Superbug-/221160476104?pt=AU_Cars&hash=item337e310dc8

What has been seen... cant be unseen...

Allbones wrote:What has been seen... cant be unseen...

+1

A mate has one down here in Tassie! No domed roof, not sure if he still has it, but its in immaculate condition!

silver wrote:that roof has lasted 12 years I am very surprised, with the UV i thought that the urethane would have turned to Goo by now........... a testimony to my skills 👍

Well Done

Very artistic and well made

Never heard of those sprite cars... must have been a city thing, lol

LEE

donn wrote:Hey Lee, you and me must be on the same wave length, that's what I was thinking.

oh dear god nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I thought that mold was well and truly broken 😂

Reminds me of this roof!! 😀

Drugs can do horrible things to talented people hahaha 🤪

ClockworkMonkey wrote:Drugs can do horrible things to talented people hahaha 🤪

Very true, have to be on drugs constantly to drive that car for sure haha

^ I recon