Dirt,
Adam DeBiasi had this green bug which he used to rally, shown in the Classic Adelaide Rally below. I'm pretty sure it was a modified engine, I think from memory it was about a 2 litre type 1, running aftermarket EFI through a custom manifold with a single Falcon throttle body. The last time I saw it run would have been a few years ago now, but I'm not sure, he might still be running it.
There are a couple of bugs running in khanacross and rallysprints in South Australia, or at least there used to be. All of them are generally S-Bugs.
Graham Vanderhoek has been campaigning his successfully in motorkhana and khanacross for years. It's a modified 1600cc engine, still registered and driven on the street as well as to events.
The Southam family have also been competing in their heavily modified bug for many years, but I think it's off the road at the moment. That used to do rallysprints but recently I think it's been mostly restricted to khanacross. There are a couple of others in the VW Club of SA who run dirt khanacross in bugs, but nobody with deep enough pockets to do a full season of rallying in one!
I have an S-Bug and would love to one day run it in historic rally. I wouldn't be doing it to win rallies, just to enjoy it and to run as fast as I can. Khanacross in my old 1500 Beetle is the closest I have gotten so far!
