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Old 08-20-2012, 06:24 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
Hi, aerohead. You're one of my favorite peeps from my lurking days. I'm looking forward to being mocked by Frank Lee. When you were building that 1970 VW Type II, I was drawing this:



Mexico is full of 2nd-hand VW floorpans. Non-VW replacement floorpans were available in the 60's. One could make one's own in a garage following this lead:

Autospeed from 2010

I like the Beetle's construction for it's modularity: stock engine and stock body with composite floorpan--or the other way around, or both, or neither.

Did anyone here recognize, or even see, the link to Local Motors?
That's some nice pencil work! The Eurovan kinda went in that direction didn't it? A friend and neighbor who used to drive to the Yucatan peninsula each year said it was swarming with these 'walk around inside' V-dubs.Very user friendly.
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