Miraculous Bug Find

[shrapnel]

I got this 1973 Super Beetle Playboy bunny edition for my daughter when she was in college. She drove it several years, then sold it after she got married.

Years later, I wanted to find it and get it back, and my son found it for sale on Facebook marketplace.

We raced to Livingston to get it at 11:00 at night before someone else got it.

It runs, needs a bit of work, but this will be a fun restoration…

 

[WNC2500]

You are right, that will be a good restoration and worth the trouble.

 

[Dave N]

Never heard of that edition. Dealer option?

 

[shrapnel]

Never heard of that edition. Dealer option?

I don’t know, but it has the Playboy bunny icon on the gas cap. That created quite a stir when she would park it in the church parking lot.

 

[Dave N]

I don’t know, but it has the Playboy bunny icon on the gas cap. That created quite a stir when she would park it in the church parking lot.



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Ok, I couldn't find anything about them when I searched as a package. Pretty cool to find her exact car again, though. Long odds on that!

 

[CRJR45]

Fun cars , I’ve had a few , actually learned to drive in one on the dirt roads of upper Michigan.
There’s a local bug club down here and one guy has his lowered and and covered in patina. I love it .

 

[FairWeather]

Cool project! I had a 62 for a few months. Terrible choice of a car in Anchorage Alaska hahaha

 

[okie archer]

Awesome to find it again. I bought a 1985 GMC short bed truck as a HS senior in 1993. Unfortunately I didn't keep it and later regretted it. A few years ago I called the bank I financed it at hoping to find a vin. This was before Internet so no computer records and it had been to long to have any paper records. Ended up buying a different one very similar.
So cool to recover the bug.