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LOL!
Yeah, the body pans were kinda *cough* special.
Knew that the seat cushion came up(off really), but not that the seat back came down.
Remember having to help fix a heat exchanger and replace engine compartment seals.
Boy was THAT a fun exercise.
Especially since the car had JUST been run, and we only had 30 minutes to get it done.
Not impossible, just painful.
Noted that a Porsche engine coule fit in there, but the engine cooling needed to be tweaked.
Then saw that a guy in California was actually busted in a Bug whilke doing 100+.
The cop didn;'t believe it, so he asked the guy what kind of engine he had in it.
(Porsche 911 turbo engine IIRC.)
You know how many Porsche owners get REALLY P.O'd when you tell them that Ferdinand Porsche made Volkswagen first before making Porsche, so that in reality they're driving really fast VW's..
(I know, but I love busting on them.)
You're right about the Porsche guys getting rattled when the heritage of their supercars is brought up. The flat motor layout was a good enough basic design that BMW still uses a variation of it on their bikes.
The downright EVIL part of the cooling design was that the throttle cable was routed through the fan shroud and this stupid loosely press-fit tube ran through the shroud. You couldn't run the cable through from under the car and also hold the tube in place - somehow, I must have figured out a way but I remember fooling with that for a few hours one day way back. When the cable snapped on me in the middle of a major intersection, some guy in a bug stopped, ran up and handed be a coat hanger and a pair of pliers without ever saying a word.