Dollar Rent a car had a small fleet of them for a while in PV. They had revealed these buggys at a mexican trade show and produced quite a few of them. I used to have a link to the original manufacturers. The originals showed up in the Puerto Vallarta area about 6 years ago as I recall. I’ve also seen these same type bugies in downtown Playa Del Carmen parked at WalMart. They had intentions of producing several to run a buggy fleet in Cancun. He did confirm that I was infact, driving that very vehicle, though it had been re-painted blue. Unfortunately I lost all of my information a while back in a hard drive crash.įrom my discussions with the brothers that owned and were renting two of them in Cancun, there was someone in the Merida area that had a mold for them, though that was all the information they would divulge as it was pretty clear from them that mold was pulled from another car.They sorta clammed up when I identified the buggy I was renting as a yellow one that had been for sale on the Samba several months prior to my encounter with them.
#NEW BEETLE DUNE BUGGY KITS WINDOWS#
There are pictures out there of a red one with soft windows that snapped in as well, though I haven’t come across those pictures in a while. The two that I’ve personally inspected were very solidly constructed and appeared well molded. The front hood and windshield was unmistakeably from a new beetle, and parking side by side with a NB, it seemed highly likely the roof hoops were probably pulled from a NB. The others had the solid sides and the steps molded in. One version has actual working doors and inserts for the t tops. There are two different versions of these new beetle look buggies, but they are 100% “old Beetle” bll joint/ swingaxle chassis underneath. They did infact run into some copyright issues with VW because they were very clearly displaying them with a VW logo in hte hood and tail lid. I’ve had contact in thepast with the original parties that first prduced those bodies. I am 100% certain that they were manufactured origionally in Mexico, not brazil.
I’ve rented and driven these same buggys in Cancun.they are not Bugways.
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