I've had a split window, oval window, a 57 (first year of big window) and a couple 60's ones chopped into Bajas (can get the engine out of those in 12 min ). Really cool fun but like the others say, lame heater. They do run in any weather, from sub zero to 40deg c +, and if they overheat they just stop for a while til they cool down. I think bugs are more of a lifestyle choice than a practical way of getting around but super fun.

I've owned 2. If you like to wrench they're OK. If you live in cold weather forget it unless you like wiping snow off the windshield going down the road. I'd like to have a new one, I've always loved the look. I'm building an RC racing model of a Porshe 914 now, it was almost the same car, just a different body. If you get one have backup transportation.

Well, I went and bought a '74 super beetle. Runs like a champ. Heater works like a hot dang. It has a key feature that wasn't listed. I can see the road through the floor! I've already started gutting the interior as there is mold and mildew throughout. Purchased new pans since there isn't enough of the old ones left to weld to. (The battery didn't fall out on the way home because of a sheet of plywood.) It had a new motor put in in 2008 and I paid less for the car than a motor would cost me so I think I'm coming out alright on this one.

Charon wrote on 09/10/13 at 16:28:19:



& THAT was what made it Super?

Buddy O Mine loaned me his VW wagon in 73.. That thing ran awwrite,I had a blast in it,

I always wanted a bug.
Until I drove a couple.
That cured that desire right away.

I was an owner of 2 VW  Bugs.
One of which was a convertible..
I loved them both.. Drove them
all over. We even took 2 trips to
Ca in the one. Unfortunately it
was not the convertible as we got
that one a couple years later.
No a/c and as others mentioned the
heater was almost non  existent.
I sold both as kids were small and the
thought of getting rear ended overtook me
and so got rid of both of them.
Have given thought of getting another one.
Great gas mileage and put chains on them in
the snow, you can go anywhere.. kim