Date:         Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:29:24 EDT
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From:         Richie Chunda <Richiesbad@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Car's People Love Most
Comments: To: mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM
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In a message dated 6/25/02 11:01:05 AM, mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

<< Anybody happen to see Discovery Channel's coverage of Jesse James (L.A.
motorcycle builder/painter extraordinaire) converting a '98 beetle into a
water craft? >>

There is nothing new about that concept.  Many moons ago, more than thirty,
Road and Track had an article about a guy who converted a sunroof Beetle to
run on water.  There was not much to the conversion: he raised the intake and
exhaust above the waterline, hung a prop to the ass end through the hand
crank hole, opened the sunroof, closed the doors then drove it into the
water.  Once he was underway, the front wheels turned into rudimentary, but
effective, rudders.  The sunroof was his flying bridge.  He was trying to
make a point about the integrity of the Beetle's design and, I guess, turn a
few heads.

Richie