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nworbekim wrote:I could get them both in it, but I never tried a passenger.

Been there, done that with a '56 in college.
Take out passenger seat.
Take out back seat bottom.
Fill with horns.
Passenger sits on stool on floor behind you.
Not really safe, but that era bugs weren't exactly safe, either...

Schlepporello wrote:Yeah, I believe it was in '69 when they came out with the IRS on the Bugs. It made it a lot harder to roll them.

Addition of a rear sway bar fixed that. Hand tools and well worth the effort!

I had a King 2341 - the body went in the small space behind the back seat, bell went in the trunk (in the front, of course) - still had room for three passengers (and driver, of course).

I really miss that car (and all that hair, too).....

Yep, the heat exchangers would rust, either open or closed, so you always had heat, or never had heat.

I had the motor out (easy job, 4 bolts, two jacks!) to put in a new cylinder head (only way to do it), and at that time I freed up the heat exchangers so that they actually worked. The people in the back seat always had warm feet in the winter....

I had a "64 bug. I think it had 70 hp. It had a gas heater in the front trunk that, when used, burned more gas than the engine in back. Those little air cooled engines really did well if you kept them at sufficient rpms and you adjusted the valves regularly. I really learned how to use the manual transmission on that car. In the winter, we had to pull that battery from under the back seat and bring it in each night or it wouldn't start the next norming. I think it had a 6 volt system.

opus37 wrote:I had a "64 bug.

'64 was 40 HP and 6 volt.

Schlepporello wrote: Mom wrecked our 69 and we put a 64 body on the pan. It was fun changing the wiring over.

I put a ‘66 pan under my ‘56.
There wasn’t enough room in the ‘56 to clear the 1500 I had at the time, so I had to assemble the top end of the engine with the block already in the car...