I had a friend that had a 10sec. VW Beetle. I never seen it run, But now I really believe him. Lol... but now I wish I could have seen it make a run down the track. ✌😊
Big Louie yep. And I have a sneaky feeling driver of the love bug on steroids wasn't giving everything it had. Think he was holding her back some. Just a hunch...
As Colin Chapman (founder of Lotus) said: “Simplify, then add lightness” It was his philosophy, way before 'minimalism' became fashionable. “Adding power makes you faster on the straights; subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere”, was another of Chapman's premises. By tradition, Lotus uses the least number of parts in its products.
@@friktionrc always wanted an espirit turbo in the 80s. such an attractive car. Papa raced a lotus chassis back in the 70s. Instead of my espirit, Papa is getting an old elans for his retirement.
@@jhart7304 I remember the Esprit turbo well...a guy near us had one, white with the red pinstripe....he eventually sold it and got a Porsche 928 (v8, but the 5ltr version) which for me was one of the better looking Porsches. But yeah the Esprit was a stunner- both to see and hear 👏👏👏😎 Re the present - Ooh sweet!! Will your Father get back into racing? I've seen quite a few race at Brands Hatch and Silverston (so here in the UK) especialy at 'revival' /classic motorracing events like Goodwood Revival (check RUclips - plenty of clips of great close racing involving classic cars)....the Elan is both very light and nippy. Aslo, if you're Father is not into track racing they make great 'hill climb' cars....they carry so much speed through tight turns and due to light weight have great acceleration considering their age. Either way, I'm sure he will love driving it 👍 Clearly a well loved Father to recieve such a wonderful gift. Much love to you and your family for such a stunning gift 👏👏👏🙏🙏👍
@@friktionrc nah. He and mom raced back in the 70s. she actually won the national championship in scca in '76 in a formula ford. 😂 It was just one of those questions you ask of papa as a young boy. 'Papa, what is your fav car?' So he said and I still remember. Lots of work yet to do. So keep it quiet please! He doesnt know. 😁😉
That sleeper “Bug” obviously did NOT have a 4 cylinder motor (look at the headers protruding out in FRONT of the car). A 4 cylinder NEVER sounds like that. Also its front end has been extended to fit the motor.
@@davecpgh he said 300 tops not stock 😂 I was replying to jeffel80 obviously not 300 running those times. You are Army so I apologize for you mistaking Tops with Stock. It wasn't written in crayon for ya.
I recall back in the late 60's a VW at Mission Drag Racing Park. It sounded kinda like a coffee percolator, pop, pop, pop. Announcer said it had an VW engine in it as well. He was racing a 427 Camaro I think and the VW just smoked him pulling a 9 sec 1/4 mile.
@@njmvcsp2575 The giant ass wheels hooked to a Ford 9 inch rear diff in a tubbed enclosure is what really gave it away, I mean you just look at it and you see it.
I'm impressed that he runs a stock hood, that the chassis has the engine super low and can close the hood... so it has to be a small block, but then I thought it's in the rear as it looks kinda dark in the back like there's an engine behind a firewall in the back, but big engines in the rear of a beetle don't handle too well and this one runs straight and true, but yeah, headers in the front so, I'm goin' with small block.. a hot big CI small block in a car that small will easily run low 8's or better
Holly crap that VW can 60ft!!! Half track on the bars! Would love to see how he managed to cram that (obviously very large) V8 underneath the stock hood of that little thing. Nice vid, new sub, keep um coming!
a friend of mine drag raced a vw with a flat 4 ,held adra record for years ,was a nearly a street driven car,minus cooling fan,had to change to a ghia body,the bug style would flip over at 120mph
@@donaldkash8859 Nice! Would love to have seen him make a pass. I’ve always loved big engines in small vehicles! I know a flat four isn’t exactly a huge engine, but it’s a far cry from a 1300cc VW engine! LOL 😈
I used to use a socket wrench on the generator pully. One quick twist was usually enough to start the engine. Had to make sure the generator belt was tight and wouldn't slip.
That's pretty legit, especially if you kept stock gearing in the trans. When i think back I get sick thinking how much money I threw into that engine to gain some speed.
compare the difference in weights as well ... the nova ways some decent poundage more than the VW ... so it has to over come more weight to get going ... a portion of the VW win is due to inertia it has less so got up to speed faster ... the joys of physics
@@0623kaboom Yes, I am acquainted with those joys, having minored in physics in college. But my comment was on the sheer speed of the bug and not what allowed it to get up to speed. The way that it came off the line was incredible. This is not something that one normally sees in a drag race unless watching funny cars and rail jobs. Not that both of these cars weren't heavily customized because they were but it was still quite a sight.
What is the engine in the VW....cuz thats a sweet hole shot. No VW can do that so what's under the VW body... GM, Ford or Mopar. So Nova gets beat by somethind eith VW body? Very nice V8 modification runner massive hp disguised as VW ...
Heck yeahhhh! I used to watch stuff like this all the time in the '80s and '90s at Orlando speed world. Volkswagen beetles running 8 - 10 second quarter mile passes.
@evensout I remember a mate dad reading an ad for a bug for sale out of the newspaper with a 454 in it !!!! Would love to have seen it !!!! Also remember some younguns trying to show horn a 350 chev into a Morris Minor..... Safety wasn't such a huge issue back then 🤣🤣🤣
@@turnman02 Saw a maroon Chevette at a car show with a 454 crammed in between the fenders probably 30 years ago. Probably barely drivable but wild. I was maybe 22 or so & I asked the owner how he managed to get the engine in there. He was a very cool guy & he said, "Aw, man it was easy; we took the engine up onto the roof of a three story building & just dropped it in there." 😄 👍🏻 🇺🇸
@@DoyleFM I'm in Australia, I think your Chevette is what we called an Astra, but our GMH ( Holden) Astra was quite a bit different from the Euro mobile of the same name....
I think I watched a VW Bug like this back in the summer of '74 in Marion South Dakota. He wuped up on everyone including a Hemi out of Anthon Iowa. Completely blew our minds! Never did find out anything about the VW or where he was from. When I tell folks about it they say I'm lying.
There is a mechanic named Bill denson who used to soup up vws back in the early seventies that used to beat Corvettes all the time down at englishtown from what I understand I never seen one run but I always heard about them I wonder if he's still fixing vws out there in Summerville New Jersey on route 206 this guy was one of the best mechanics out there.
I built an air cooled VW engine that made 140 rwhp and put it in a 500kg road registered beach buggy( originally 36hp) with a soft tune: you can make them flyyyy but it costs big money.
Yup. Every engine has a magic number $ = HP, it can cost minimal amounts to gain big numbers from stock to that certain point, from there it goes up exponentially: I’m not rich but have been lucky enough to be able to go past that point when I want to, let’s say to just over the edge of “Streetable” which really is streetable just not in traffic which for some stupid reason I think is fun: most can do intake and exhaust, some a mild cam, I like to go a few steps further with cams that need head work and a non factory ECU, supercharged over turbo but only because I love lumpy cams... that VW engine was purposely built to be fast and reliable, it had a small turbo with injection, a Haltec ECU, the cams, crank and pistons were all turbo specific (nothing inside was VW) it would drive all day at double the speed of an original engine and not overheat, it still had the stock 1967 swing axle gearbox which was the reason for the soft tune (to stop it breaking: tuning to it’s full potential would have to include a cost of close to $5,000AUD for suitably strong gearbox [nothing auto is cheap here (Australia) we pay around 35% more than the USA regardless of origin] but with that it would power wheel stand in 2nd gear with the stock gearing) and yes, it had four wheel discs: sadly I sold it, as an example I now have a fully loaded mint C6 Corvette convertible that would fetch maybe $35kUSD or a bit less but here with the RHD conversion it’s a six figure car to the right person.
VW Bug with a whale tail and M/T's doing a John Force burnout, beats a 1,000 hp Nova by 1 1/2 seconds. Can you possibly imagine the razzing the Nova driver got back in the pits? And yes, I saw the headers peeking from under the fenders.
🔴 Sure looks like headers come out of the front of the Bug, There was a 1600 CC bug though that did do 8.9 seconds in the 1/4 @ 140 MPH, that guy had a hard time keeping it in his lane! he was going to sell that Bug and build a Bonneville stream liner car with a water cooled 4 banger...
If you haven't seen a 10 second VW bug with a VW engine it's hard to believe. We had a couple of guys in our car club with one and at night would unbolt the tricked out engine and take it inside.
I remember seeing a beetle called the Pink Panther in the late eighties early nineties at Sears Point in Sonoma. It was very fast & I think it was a four cylinder. Could be wrong it was a long time ago.
Thats not truely a vw so you cant say its a beetle vs muscle car when they both have the same engine, vw aircooled engines can run 8 seconds down the quarter mile if you know how to build them
The Nova got the jump, but his front end came up. The Beetle was straight out w/just a bit of a wheelie. 8:30 - 9:45 ET 162 - 158. Win wasn't a fluke. The VW had better HP to weight ratio. Unless there's a hitch or a mechanical the wt/hp combo always wins.
It's just like a spicy food challenge... "Eat this salsa made from pure capsaicin with these ghost peppers to dip with". Of course it will be hot... The bug has more HP and likely less weight
When he did the burn out and you saw those wheelie bars, you already know it’s over.
It wasn't the wheelie bars, it was scorching those 14" M/T's off like they were 6" wide that probably put the fear into that Chevelle.
I had a friend that had a 10sec. VW Beetle. I never seen it run, But now I really believe him. Lol... but now I wish I could have seen it make a run down the track. ✌😊
beetle with v8 roar, something serious coming
Herbie the muscle car rides again😎
@@pj8143Hi Pets, I kinda miss those Love Bug movies. They don't make them like they use to. 🥺✌️😊
That VW came off the line hard and never quit pulling .
Having the engine over the drive wheels doesn't hurt, either.
@@xzqzq not see the headers sticking out behind the front wheels then?
Big Louie yep. And I have a sneaky feeling driver of the love bug on steroids wasn't giving everything it had. Think he was holding her back some. Just a hunch...
It looked like the muscle car flubbed the take-off...kinda died on launch...
@@andysoper1229 and stretched hood.
Herbie been hitting the gym! 😀
Herbie been hitting the roids...
Yes herbie is faster then lighting my queen
@@frucklerbullpit At least it wasn't a Kingswood !!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍
Nope, hes been juicing.
Screw all the negative comments.
That vw rocked.
What wankers that knock.
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Please tell us what motor the VW is running. The headers peeking out say it's not VW. Thanks.
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Whatever you call it, it's flat out COOL !!!
Power to weight wins every time. 🏁
That’s the winning formula, not just brute HP.
As Colin Chapman (founder of Lotus) said: “Simplify, then add lightness”
It was his philosophy, way before 'minimalism' became fashionable. “Adding power makes you faster on the straights; subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere”, was another of Chapman's premises.
By tradition, Lotus uses the least number of parts in its products.
@@friktionrc always wanted an espirit turbo in the 80s.
such an attractive car.
Papa raced a lotus chassis back in the 70s. Instead of my espirit, Papa is getting an old elans for his retirement.
@@jhart7304 I remember the Esprit turbo well...a guy near us had one, white with the red pinstripe....he eventually sold it and got a Porsche 928 (v8, but the 5ltr version) which for me was one of the better looking Porsches.
But yeah the Esprit was a stunner- both to see and hear 👏👏👏😎
Re the present - Ooh sweet!! Will your Father get back into racing? I've seen quite a few race at Brands Hatch and Silverston (so here in the UK) especialy at 'revival' /classic motorracing events like Goodwood Revival (check RUclips - plenty of clips of great close racing involving classic cars)....the Elan is both very light and nippy. Aslo, if you're Father is not into track racing they make great 'hill climb' cars....they carry so much speed through tight turns and due to light weight have great acceleration considering their age. Either way, I'm sure he will love driving it 👍
Clearly a well loved Father to recieve such a wonderful gift. Much love to you and your family for such a stunning gift 👏👏👏🙏🙏👍
@@friktionrc nah.
He and mom raced back in the 70s. she actually won the national championship in scca in '76 in a formula ford. 😂
It was just one of those questions you ask of papa as a young boy.
'Papa, what is your fav car?'
So he said and I still remember.
Lots of work yet to do. So keep it quiet please! He doesnt know. 😁😉
Idc what kind of engine he had 162 mph quarter in less than 9 sec. Say what you want thats damn impressive
tnxjesus its a 4 cylinder.
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@@theduke9953 it's a 7 cylinder a V8
Imagine just seeing that little VW Beetle leaving you to eat the dust, lmao insane!
That sleeper “Bug” obviously did NOT have a 4 cylinder motor (look at the headers protruding out in FRONT of the car). A 4 cylinder NEVER sounds like that. Also its front end has been extended to fit the motor.
Headers out the front dead giveaway! Impressive!
Wow, Herbie still has its punch after all these years!!!!!
Haters gonna hate! "VW ain't stock!" "VW has headers!" Hey, everyone, was that "1000 hp" Chevy stock??
@@jeffel80 a 300hp heavy ass car would not have done a quarter in 9.45 you obviously know nothing.
@@HookSettinHooligans STOCK! That Chevy had 300hp when STOCK. You should stop with your insults that seem to be directed towards yourself.
@@davecpgh he said 300 tops not stock 😂 I was replying to jeffel80 obviously not 300 running those times. You are Army so I apologize for you mistaking Tops with Stock. It wasn't written in crayon for ya.
@@HookSettinHooligans the... original... comment... is... referring... to... the... Chevy... was... not... stock......... Jeff's... comment... is... referring... to... the... Chevy... HAD... 300... hp... Meaning... it... HAD... 300... hp... at... stock......... Is... that... explained... slow... enough... for... you???
@@davecpgh sorry you still can't read 300hp TOPS it doesn't say TOPS stock.
I recall back in the late 60's a VW at Mission Drag Racing Park. It sounded kinda like a coffee percolator, pop, pop, pop. Announcer said it had an VW engine in it as well. He was racing a 427 Camaro I think and the VW just smoked him pulling a 9 sec 1/4 mile.
I remember that car. I think it was called the Sonic Muffin
@@donziperk Yes, that's it! Thanks.
No flat 4 in the VW I'm guessing a giant Big block Chevy
Really. I thought it was going to be a turbo 4.
@@kingcraven8056 The GIANT header tubes under the front fenders gave it away lol
@@njmvcsp2575 Duh and the sound.
@@njmvcsp2575 The giant ass wheels hooked to a Ford 9 inch rear diff in a tubbed enclosure is what really gave it away, I mean you just look at it and you see it.
I'm impressed that he runs a stock hood, that the chassis has the engine super low and can close the hood... so it has to be a small block, but then I thought it's in the rear as it looks kinda dark in the back like there's an engine behind a firewall in the back, but big engines in the rear of a beetle don't handle too well and this one runs straight and true, but yeah, headers in the front so, I'm goin' with small block.. a hot big CI small block in a car that small will easily run low 8's or better
A design thats in it's 90s and it's still pulling surprises out of nowhere, that's why I love the VW Beetle
I like the parachute at the end !
took the brakes out for the weight reduction...
Cheaper than brakes 😄
*Bug-out bag 😁
Holly crap that VW can 60ft!!! Half track on the bars! Would love to see how he managed to cram that (obviously very large) V8 underneath the stock hood of that little thing. Nice vid, new sub, keep um coming!
a friend of mine drag raced a vw with a flat 4 ,held adra record for years ,was a nearly a street driven car,minus cooling fan,had to change to a ghia body,the bug style would flip over at 120mph
@@donaldkash8859 Nice! Would love to have seen him make a pass. I’ve always loved big engines in small vehicles! I know a flat four isn’t exactly a huge engine, but it’s a far cry from a 1300cc VW engine! LOL 😈
I remember having to push-start my brother's Beetle down the block.
Those were the days. And I could fix am with a hammer.
Now days you can't even jump start modern cars because it can ruin their stupid computers.
I used to use a socket wrench on the generator pully. One quick twist was usually enough to start the engine. Had to make sure the generator belt was tight and wouldn't slip.
I should have put rear tires like that on my Beetle to make it go faster.
DAMN BUMBLEBEE CHANGED HIS COLOR AND CAN NOW "TRANSFORM AND HAUL ASS!"😲💯......i mean transform and roll out.😁
I had a big bore kit (1835cc), cam, dual Dellorto 40mm carbs, a performance cam and big valve heads.......I was pushing it to run a 13 sec 1/4
That's pretty legit, especially if you kept stock gearing in the trans. When i think back I get sick thinking how much money I threw into that engine to gain some speed.
Another car often given a much larger engine than stock is the Ford Falcon. Plenty of room under the hood.
Holy crap, that bug is FAST! Wow. Just plain WOW!!!
compare the difference in weights as well ... the nova ways some decent poundage more than the VW ... so it has to over come more weight to get going ... a portion of the VW win is due to inertia it has less so got up to speed faster ... the joys of physics
@@0623kaboom Yes, I am acquainted with those joys, having minored in physics in college.
But my comment was on the sheer speed of the bug and not what allowed it to get up to speed.
The way that it came off the line was incredible. This is not something that one normally sees
in a drag race unless watching funny cars and rail jobs. Not that both of these cars weren't
heavily customized because they were but it was still quite a sight.
Well that puts my old 2180cc to shame. I wished I still had my old beetles. Those were the days!!!
That Bug F'n launched hard it was all over @ the line! It's all about Power 2 Weight Ratio and even with 1K HP The Nova didn't have it.
Whoa. I was NOT prepared for how fast that bug was. Ye gods.
There used to a bug they came down to the track with its well big 4 cylinder and boy that thing was smokin fast
The power-to-weight ratio on the bettle makes it like a rocket.
Tell all the haters that all race cars ( fast ones anyway) have other than original motors... Cool is cool
not true.
What is the engine in the VW....cuz thats a sweet hole shot. No VW can do that so what's under the VW body... GM, Ford or Mopar. So Nova gets beat by somethind eith VW body? Very nice V8 modification runner massive hp disguised as VW ...
Who is hating ...just aint a VW...if the Nova had an air cooled pancake 6 banger would it be a Porsche or a Nova?
You probably mean "engines"... 😒
should've just continued that burn out all the way down to the end lol
To the point where the parachute doesn't work
Heck yeahhhh! I used to watch stuff like this all the time in the '80s and '90s at Orlando speed world. Volkswagen beetles running 8 - 10 second quarter mile passes.
wow, what a launch from that little bug!
back when my brothers and I were racing (many, many moons ago) there was a guy who had a 327ci in a bug...
@evensout I remember a mate dad reading an ad for a bug for sale out of the newspaper with a 454 in it !!!! Would love to have seen it !!!! Also remember some younguns trying to show horn a 350 chev into a Morris Minor..... Safety wasn't such a huge issue back then 🤣🤣🤣
@@turnman02
Saw a maroon Chevette at a car show with a 454 crammed in between the fenders probably 30 years ago.
Probably barely drivable but wild.
I was maybe 22 or so & I asked the owner how he managed to get the engine in there. He was a very cool guy & he said, "Aw, man it was easy; we took the engine up onto the roof of a three story building & just dropped it in there."
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@@DoyleFM Too funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@DoyleFM I'm in Australia, I think your Chevette is what we called an Astra, but our GMH ( Holden) Astra was quite a bit different from the Euro mobile of the same name....
The only Beetle about that VW is the body.
It's not even a true VW, it's fiberglass
It was a Beetle. Nothing else out there was stock either. Lol. 😆
Crazy bug! My son and I are working on our 69 Ghia that we saved from the car crusher 👍✌️
That freaking insane! It's like the bug was just on rocket fuel!
As it is said elsewhere. You can judge a bug by its cover.😃
VW has a bit of extra wheel base very nice job of it. Love to take a closer look. Well built.
That bug had some really long headers!
Herbie has to be nothing but engine and gas tank. Impressive. 👍
Wow, this Beetle leap off the line like a Cheetah hunting it's prey!
I think I watched a VW Bug like this back in the summer of '74 in Marion South Dakota. He wuped up on everyone including a Hemi out of Anthon Iowa. Completely blew our minds! Never did find out anything about the VW or where he was from. When I tell folks about it they say I'm lying.
I took a ride in a 1948 Anglia about the same. I only took a ride once.
There is a mechanic named Bill denson who used to soup up vws back in the early seventies that used to beat Corvettes all the time down at englishtown from what I understand I never seen one run but I always heard about them I wonder if he's still fixing vws out there in Summerville New Jersey on route 206 this guy was one of the best mechanics out there.
What happened to the Nova, I blinked and it was a done deal...
Herbie the muscle car rides again😎
Cool!!!, that VW even looked good with the paint scheme.
Headers behind the front wheels, stretched front end, ain't no rear-engine air-cooled Bug for sure!
That V Dub SMOKED him. NICE
Holy smoke, what an awesome performance 😂😂👍
8.30 HOLY SHIT!!!!!! That thing took off like a friggin bullet!
The classiest part
Tossin' the laundry out the back
Awesome informative Video experience Y'alls God Bless Ya 🙌🙏
I shouldn’t have had to watch a 10 second commercial to get to this video.
Nice race but, noticed the side exhaust on the beetle? Betcha is a front-engine RWD car with a beetle body on top.
The big block chevy is making badass noises in the background for about 4 minutes before it comes back into view.
That Nova messed up his/her launch but as a VW owner I'm always happy to see a VW win a race.
I built an air cooled VW engine that made 140 rwhp and put it in a 500kg road registered beach buggy( originally 36hp) with a soft tune: you can make them flyyyy but it costs big money.
That's the trick. With enough money you can make almost anything go fast.
Yup. Every engine has a magic number $ = HP, it can cost minimal amounts to gain big numbers from stock to that certain point, from there it goes up exponentially: I’m not rich but have been lucky enough to be able to go past that point when I want to, let’s say to just over the edge of “Streetable” which really is streetable just not in traffic which for some stupid reason I think is fun: most can do intake and exhaust, some a mild cam, I like to go a few steps further with cams that need head work and a non factory ECU, supercharged over turbo but only because I love lumpy cams... that VW engine was purposely built to be fast and reliable, it had a small turbo with injection, a Haltec ECU, the cams, crank and pistons were all turbo specific (nothing inside was VW) it would drive all day at double the speed of an original engine and not overheat, it still had the stock 1967 swing axle gearbox which was the reason for the soft tune (to stop it breaking: tuning to it’s full potential would have to include a cost of close to $5,000AUD for suitably strong gearbox [nothing auto is cheap here (Australia) we pay around 35% more than the USA regardless of origin] but with that it would power wheel stand in 2nd gear with the stock gearing) and yes, it had four wheel discs: sadly I sold it, as an example I now have a fully loaded mint C6 Corvette convertible that would fetch maybe $35kUSD or a bit less but here with the RHD conversion it’s a six figure car to the right person.
BEETLE WON!!! SMOKED!
Beetles have more powerful muscles because they got more legs on their horses 🪲
VW Bug with a whale tail and M/T's doing a John Force burnout, beats a 1,000 hp Nova by 1 1/2 seconds. Can you possibly imagine the razzing the Nova driver got back in the pits? And yes, I saw the headers peeking from under the fenders.
It may be a VW, but that’s some American V-8 muscle pushing it down the track.
Farmtruck did an interview with the guy...showed the engine..it was a blowthrough turbo setup on a big bore vw
Ten seconds in, my first thought was "that ain't a flat four."
VW has always been great for drag racing being light weight rear engine and rear drive it's pretty much born for the drag strip
Look where the headers are.
Best drag beetle i ever see
Good god! Never underestimate a VW.
That beetle is really CRAZY
Dam... that bug grabbed hard off the line.
🔴 Sure looks like headers come out of the front of the Bug, There was a 1600 CC bug though that did do 8.9 seconds in the 1/4 @ 140 MPH, that guy had a hard time keeping it in his lane! he was going to sell that Bug and build a Bonneville stream liner car with a water cooled 4 banger...
That bug is bad ass 👍👍
Is that a pre ‘65? Love those big bumps small lights and a little swallow tail on the back
If you haven't seen a 10 second VW bug with a VW engine it's hard to believe. We had a couple of guys in our car club with one and at night would unbolt the tricked out engine and take it inside.
Okay that Beetle deserves the 'crazy' title 100%.
I didn't have to watch (but I did) to know that the answer is.....YES!
HUGE slicks right under the engine = hook machine!
The engine wasn't in the rear. Notice the long headers?
Bummer the VW Bug is a V8 swap, I was hoping it would have had a proper built flat 4.
I remember seeing a beetle called the Pink Panther in the late eighties early nineties at Sears Point in Sonoma. It was very fast & I think it was a four cylinder. Could be wrong it was a long time ago.
What a fucking launch!!!! Holy shit
Wight to horsepower.
And some good gearing/traction
I seen one VW with a bug motor run 4'62. 1/8
Man, that must be Herbie's mean brother!
Brilliant Video All The Best Team.
That's gotta bug the hell outta the nova driver. Pun intended
It’s a vw body with a v8 under the hood, that’s why , same power less weight!
Thats not truely a vw so you cant say its a beetle vs muscle car when they both have the same engine, vw aircooled engines can run 8 seconds down the quarter mile if you know how to build them
Post a link to an 8 second 1/4 mile run by a 4 cylinder VW beetle please.
Bullshit
Fisher Buggies or VW paradise, pick one. I'll let you idiots do the leg work.
1/4 or is it 1/8th?
"Add more lightness"
- Colin Chapman
The headline/title makes it sound like the Beetle may be stock or slow? But it is far from stock, many mods on that car.
You can see the headers behind the front wheel.
The Nova got the jump, but his front end came up. The Beetle was straight out w/just a bit of a wheelie. 8:30 - 9:45 ET 162 - 158. Win wasn't a fluke. The VW had better HP to weight ratio. Unless there's a hitch or a mechanical the wt/hp combo always wins.
It's just like a spicy food challenge...
"Eat this salsa made from pure capsaicin with these ghost peppers to dip with". Of course it will be hot...
The bug has more HP and likely less weight
That lil bug ate his wheaties.
That bug didn’t have a souped up beetle motor! 😤
Scottie from Star Trek got a VW warped to the max
I drove a VW Beetle from Quebec to New York City in 1960 and didn't sound like that.
"Herbie" sure is fast!
Nothing 'Beetle' about that, except the general shape.....
power to weight ration, no contest... you can't beat physics
That is one fast bug.
Good run but Travis Pastrana just ran an 8.3 in Ruby and lifted 3 times...
You still owe me a 10 second car
That's one badass bug