I drove them a few times in the 60s and 70s but never owned one. Fun to drive, especially back then. I want the '68 with front disc brakes - not a real common model. I wanted for years to build a Meyer's Manx style dune buggy, not for off roading but because Car and Driver tested one in the mid 60s and they said with racing tires it outhandled and out braked every sports car they'd ever tested.

I forget exactly, I think 80 mph to 0 was something like 200 feet - over 1 G in braking force and that with stock 4 wheel drum brakes. You have to use the pre-Super Beetle models, up til 1970 or so - has to have the torsion bar suspension up front and the frame is shortened about 12 inches IIRC. A manx weighs 1200 lbs so with a halfway hopped up vee dub engine they were supposed to be pretty zippy.

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