QUOTE(Maltese Falcon @ Jun 16 2012, 11:38 AM)
The grass around my six was full of coins, from people getting under the car for a better look at the drive train...bizzare.
I know exactly how that works, kids entered mine and won "best watercooled" at Bugorama a few years ago. It says "Volkswagen Werke AG" on the VIN tag, doesn't it? I was there again last month with my 914 and older son, who has a Soobie powered 58 ragtop beetle autocrosser, but just in the swap meet/camping area. We left the deck lids up and there were people two deep around both cars all weekend. I think VW guys get tired of seeing cars that are pretty much the same but with different kinds of carburetors, different wheels, maybe different paint and that's about it. Show up with something entirely different, like a watercooled aircooled car, and it's like whole new lands of possibilities appear before their eyes.