Dammit, and I just traded off my '71 super Beetle!

[Bbqjoe]

This is a pretty interesting read.

http://lanesplitter.jalopnik.com/brazil-once-turned-vw-beetles-into-the-biggest-and-mayb-1796695769

 

[Flyinhillbilly]

Von Dutch built a crazy VW bike. He built a lot of crazy stuff and is one of my hero's. His philosophies were pretty amazing too.

 

[Hellion]

Well, looks like they inadvertently created the best Apocalypse/SHTF vehicle known to man...

It was crude, but it worked, and that seemed to be the basic character of the motorcycle itself. Almost every review or report about the bike makes clear how brutal, heavy, and basic it was, but the things just didn’t seem to break, which is why the Brazilian motorcycle cops kept using them all throughout the 1980s.