What were they thinking??????
theres one in darwin done similarly
some people have too much time on their hands.....and too little taste I think (in my opinion only) 
Oh no Lord please No! Please no,no,no,no! Make it go away please, make it go away! 
There is a green one in Melbourne with a Mercedes bonnet
The orginal Beetle with a Rolls Royce front clip is still in the possession of Jim Broadley (formerly of Diablo Motors) and he still has the letter of demand from Rolls Royce to destroy it or face legal action.
fuggley
We should show this to our kids and explain that this is what drugs do to people
Hi
From memory TAFE had something to do with these.
Steve
Maybe beetles would have looked like this if they had had water cooled engines in the front? I don't think it looks to bad 
Had a customer asked me to do one for him a few mth's ago,exept he had a old studebaker grill..............I refused!!
Way way way back in the early '80s I looked after a VW soft top for a young lady whilst she went on holidays in Europe. I had a ball driving around
in her little beast. I was a Chocolate Brown "Wonderbug"...it had what looked like an Austin A40 front end and it had the
manufacturer's/converter's build plate affixed close to the normal build plate from the VW factory.
It had a very well fitted and functioning leak free fold down fabric roof and it was trimmed in what looked like a dark silver velvety fabric. I must
say...I was very impressed with the detail that went into it and the workmanship involved.
It got looks from almost everyone on the road (around Albury/Wodonga) and it was a very spritely performer too. A worked 1600TP with extractors that
gave it a very nice rumble, twin dual throat Dellortos and 9" of rubber on the rear and 7" on the front gave it a very tough and racey stance.
Has anyone else seen or heard of this conversion before?
i would love to have 1!
From last year's Vic DOVW:
id roll in one of those bad boys...
just to piss people off..
Man, they keep getting worse!
the other car next to the red one there ( Orange )
had some trick mods done to it
I remember seeing kits for these in a USA magazine back about 1970??
bonnet with Mercedes grill and dual headlamps in the front fenders..
also early Ford type bonnet kits too...
and there is a V8 powered beetle with front engine and early ford grill at the VW Nationals each year...
with a teardrop caravan...
LEE
I have also seen pics of them with fins and Mercedes tail lamps
on the rear fenders.... lol
You could actually put an Esky cooler under that bonnet... lol
You could use a Bentley grill now that VW owns Bentley...
but the cost of a Bentley grill would be "out of this world" lol
or go the el cheapo way and use a Land Rover Grill.... lol
LEE
photo: maybe this is a Daimler grill ?? not sure...
but the front fenders don't look modified at all... LEE
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it's ok it's only a fat chick
Better leave it in the barn where no one can be harmed from looking at it?
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has anyone ever thought this is probably why it was left in a barn?
Yep, some things are better left in the darkest corners of the mind - or a barn - either will do.There truly should be a law against that!!
heres a pretty one for yas
they call it Tuning
urrrghh!
There was one running around the Ballina area a while back with an austin grill (maybe)- lots of chrome on the lip and a weird shaped bonnet
Couldn't quite figure out why they did it- the rest of the car was a bog standard beetle, down to factory rims and hubcaps
Some strange strange people out there....
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If u gonna find something in a barn make a good one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5-JbpGb8Fo
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