Here it is the ultimate fishing rig! At least it is to this fellow gun show attendee. I just couldn’t resist snapping some photos of this car especially with his modifications.
Like these custom rod holders
The interior has only one seat, the rest is for fishin stuff! But I was having a hard time getting a good shot inside.
And it’s important to keep your tide tables handy! Eat, sleep, freeze to death in a bug go fishing!
Just further proof of the psychosis associated with fishermen versatility of the Volkswagen Bug.
Bravo! I do love the classic Baja Bug — though I don’t care to go fishin’, but they’re great for explorers, wanderers, and adventurers too and can even be street legal. Unfortunately I think by now most of them probably got converted to “classic restored” condition.
With that legendary snow traction, I only improvement I can think of is:
go Russian and put an ice fishing hole in the floor!
That plus some vodka and a Zaporozhet got many a Ruskie through the winter.
As cool as that looks I’d probably spring for some modern rubber.
What do you mean?
Tires, not the car. I dig buggies.
Thats the kinda VW bug I could cope with Im not into fishing but its iff road capabilities would be handy.
I must love pain. This car is one that I would love. Just not enough to buy another.
Had I a standard Beetle instead of a Super, I’d have gone for one of those J.C. Whitney Baja kits. The one with the fiberglass bucket in the front, and the abbreviated fenders in the rear.
When I was in junior high, an older boy had an older, 1960 or thereabout Beetle he’d converted with one of those, or someone had. It was pretty trashed, with all glass removed; he kept it parked on one of the few surviving farms in the area, and used to go mudding with it in a large tract of land that was kept vacant with some sort of legal issues.
Unfortunately, by the time I was on my own, the Beetle was coming to the end of its road. And I had no money to spare for car-related toys and geegaws. By the time I started seeing real money, I was 27, and the Beetle gone eight years.
Much rather see a 1966 or 1968 in mint condition, not one modified by some hoot.
True enough…today.
But in their time, those things were UBIQUITOUS. Everywhere.
They held their value on used-car lots, but only because they were so danged useful. They were anything BUT rare; and if a little Sawzall modding would make it a fun toy off-road…it was a lot cheaper than a Jeep.