Hey,
Yeah the pictures are rather painful...by a complete restoration that included a full engine overhaul by myself (great learning experience).
In all honesty, I could have put the car back on its wheels and drove it home. The only thing perventing driving was the fenders being tucked in and they just needed to be pulled out.

When I started the engine some weeks later it smoked so terribly...the oil bath air cleaner drumed oil into the carb as the car did a 270 up onto its roof and over onto is side while doing a 180 laterally...

It still runs like a champ but I am still working on a body so I can make it pretty again. The floor pan survived very well.

The use of 3 point seatbelts in those cars (stock ones) I can safely say saved my head a great deal of pain.

Lesson learned...on that particular corner..it would be better to climb the embankment on the outside of the curve and continue down the road then try to avoid it. The slope of the curve changes halfway through from some pitch to NO pitch and thus the bug lost traction while taking the corner at a very reasonable speed (45mph on a 45mph road with no warning).

Apparently about a car every other week visits that corner so I don't feel too badly...but its still sad stuff.

If you were near the northwest I have a mint body off a later year super beetle with a stock sun roof. It has 68k origional miles...some idiot start taking it apart but the body and metal around is still sweet