"tricky" wrote in message
o.uk...
> On 26/04/13 05:35, AllanW wrote:
>> On Monday, 15 April 2013 01:00:25 UTC+12, tricky wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>> for a while now, I have been toying with the idea of making a beetle
>>> pickup for me to use for work.
>>>
>>> It would be more or less a 'standard' pickup design, but with a roof
>>> rack capable of carrying full 8x4 sheets .
>>>
>>> It will probably take me a year (or more) to complete.
>>>
>>> Also thinking of using a type 3 engine/motor for more load space.
>>>
>>> Are these becoming too rare/hard to find for this to be a good idea ?
>>>
>>> Any links or ideas would be muchly appreciated
>>>
>>> hmmm.... just thinking now, that a beetle/bug "van" might be more
>>> useful
>>
>> Arrrgh! I can't find a picture of my "Fonzie" Beetle wagon. It was an
>> awesome
>> NZ designed and built fibreglass kit to go on the back of a beetle which
>> had
>> been chopped behind the b pillar down to the bottom of the window, and
>> cut
>> straight out the back. It was awesome retro 80's with a spoiler on the
>> back
>> and a beetle engine in the rear. I could sit inside the and repair the
>> engine.
>> Awesome, as it stopped pretty often! There was louunge suit built innto
>> the
>> back to sit on, at the height of the dogbox in the rear of a beetle...
>> HEAPS
>> of legroom!
>>
>> Go on, do it!
>
> I can see I'm going to have to do two. A pickup, and a woody van

That's what you make the cap for the pick up bed look like.

- Bill