mOnster garage, drag bug attempt-take one Options

[charlesmac]

Anyone see the write up in the hot vw's magazine about Jessie James getting together some vw guys (Clyde Berg is the only one i can remember at the moment) to build a drag bug out of a split window coupe? Ought to be pretty interesting. The air date is either the 22nd or 29th.

[jasons]

QUOTE (i love porsche @ Aug 17 2005, 06:29 AM)

QUOTE (scotty b @ Aug 15 2005, 03:54 PM) I've got to be the a-hole to start this. I WILL not, and have refused to modify ANY pre '57 bug in a manner that cannot be easily undone. Why in the hell cut up a split or oval to build a damn drag car, when there are oodles of 60's on models out there, as well as "kits" to build an oval. If this is true I have lost what little respect I had left for the Berg family. I have NOTHING wrong with modifying a bug ion any way unless it is a split, oval or a 67. To add insult to injury that a-hole James goes home to Sandra Bullock  :wub:  :miles: every night................ (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/finger.gif) why are you guys giving him a hard time, he has an extremely valid point... tons of older cars are becoming more rare, pre A 356's, pre 57 vw's, etc and to cut them up and make rat rods out of them is taking away the historic value of the car and making them more rare. i know i want to see a pre A in person..and one that is privately owned, and even show my future son one.. cars like this are very important to history..and id wrather not see them dissapear into modified hulks.

They're only cars.... Not Picasso's. Besides, they are only original once. After that, everything is an interpretation even if its a complete restoration. Sure some people blasphemize the original spirit of them, but the point is, they certainly have the right to.

FWIW, one of my best friends has a Pre-A he is restoring and I am sure it will be beautiful. Everything he touches comes out good. It actually is kind of a shame, the guy he got it from had rolled the rear fenders and made it an outlaw. So, my buddy is going to have to pie-cut them and reweld them to get them back to "original".

So I can see both sides of the argument.