This is just to remind you...

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 02/06/2017 at 10:59 • Filed to: None

5

23

...that a Beetle once went 183mph, driven by a rocket turbine.

Boosted2k - I Make Videos and Put Them on YouTube > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/06/2017 at 11:07

0

Ayyyyyeeeee!

MrDakka > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/06/2017 at 11:11

0

Remember my motto: anything can fly if apply enough thrust

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/06/2017 at 11:13

1

Some of them do 200.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > MrDakka 02/06/2017 at 11:13

0

Flying may have been the problem, here.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/06/2017 at 11:15

0

Back in the 70's some brave bastard raced a Beetle with a Chevy 305 hanging out the back.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 02/06/2017 at 11:16

0

|well placed 911 joke

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 02/06/2017 at 11:18

1

And yet, I’m going to have to give the MASSIVE NUTZ prize to Roy Drew. Dragger wheel + turbonique axle + cage(?) + otherwise stock Bug + basically no control over speed. Oh, right, and it was A FUCKING ROCKET

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/06/2017 at 11:19

0

Best friend goals. High five like Top Gun.

Well now that Kenny Loggins song is stuck in my head.

Chariotoflove > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/06/2017 at 11:20

0

This should be the new “speed” post. Instead of blackbird, insert black widow.

Milky > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/06/2017 at 11:22

0

Crazy to think how much work went into only to roll. Now you can buy a used ZL1 and do that speed I’m assuming regularly / reliably.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Milky 02/06/2017 at 11:28

0

Well, the CPI value of $36k today in 1966bux is $4800. Given the ‘66 Bug MSRP of just under $1600, a Turbonique axle costing around $3600... the conclusion I draw is that it was shockingly cheap in 1966 to do things that were (no pun intended) bugfuck insane.

Milky > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/06/2017 at 11:39

0

Lol, it was shockingly cheap to hit that speed once .

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Milky 02/06/2017 at 11:43

0

Hey, if you count practice runs and the exhibition race against Tommy Ivo’s Showboat, he hit in excess of 160 at least a handful of times. So, 160 sort of reliably, 180 less so.

bhtooefr > Milky 02/06/2017 at 11:56

1

Not in a quarter of a mile, you couldn’t.

183 MPH before the 1/4 mile traps in a Beetle is, as RamblinRover puts it, bugfuck insane .

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/06/2017 at 12:25

2

This is some real-life Herbie stuff. Roy Drew is my new hero.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > bhtooefr 02/06/2017 at 12:38

0

Insane rocket sled shit without the rails, basically.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 02/06/2017 at 12:39

0

The front page tried to put together an article a while back, but it turns out information on Mr. Pitiful and the Black Widow is scant at best. Sadly.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/06/2017 at 13:26

0

Yeah I Googled his name after seeing this, nothing on Roy. One of the top results was some KC forum post asking if anyone knew about him. If the man’s still alive, I want to buy him a beer.

The google search did lead to these though:

Sweet shit, the drag axle was cool/diabolical.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 02/06/2017 at 13:33

0

My favorite Turbonique abomination is the Tobacco King Galaxie. ‘64 Galaxie fastback done up by an R.J. Reynolds tobacco heir, who (get this) kept the interior intact, and had a Turbonique axle *AND* a blown four-carb 427.

IanZ - limited-slip indifferential > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/06/2017 at 13:46

0

That couldn’t have been completely terrifying.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > IanZ - limited-slip indifferential 02/06/2017 at 13:49

2

Let’s be frank, though. If you’re getting in a 160mph+ basically unimproved Bug more than once, something about the fear instinct is flat-out busted. I’m betting on “felt no fear, because crazy”.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/06/2017 at 14:09

0

That car came up for auction not too long ago, didn’t it? I distinctly remember my head exploding when I learned about that one.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 02/06/2017 at 14:16

0

Yep, sold at auction a while back. Such a great car. “Sure, install the turbonique axle and gasser lift on the front suspension, but it needs to have the full black 500xl premium vinyl in place - I’m not a savage. Oh, and make sure all the rocket axle and supercharger gauges match the interior.”