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You’ll Never Guess How Cheap This Radical 1969 Volkswagen Beetle Pickup Is

It’s no secret Americans are suckers for pickup trucks. We all know people hold on to their trucks long after production for the respective model ended, incessantly work on bettering them, and sell/buy as if there is no tomorrow. In some cases, the obsession for pickups is so great that cars never envisioned as such end up being converted in shops across the nation.
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Photo: Bring a Trailer
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We’ve seen things like Volkswagen Beetles turned into pickup trucks before, but nothing as extreme as this one here.

What you’re looking at started life as a regular Beetle from 1969. Sometime during its life, it must have entered a dark American garage, and an unknown period of time after that it, came out looking like this: a Beetle for a base, 1930s look at the front, and an unmistakable bed at the rear.

To give the car this new shape a lot of fiberglass had to be used. The material has been generously fitted on the front, where the bulging hood, fitted with a vintage-looking grille, gives the VW face underneath an entirely new expression.

Wrapped in coral and beige, the body extends to the rear and morphs into a pickup bed, walled-in by more fiberglass, and ending in LED taillights and a grille tailgate.

The interior looks vintage and clean, with beige cloth wrapped around the seats, plywood panels on the doors, and a steel dashboard sporting the Beetle’s stock speedometer and an aftermarket gauge to show the temperature.

The engine pushing the home-made pickup along is a 1.6-liter, and it does its thing through a four-speed manual transmission. We’re told the build shows 13,000 miles (21,000 km) on the clock, but those have been added since the Beetle was converted, which means the true mileage is unknown.

The build is weird, to say the least, and it must have looked the same for the ones bidding for it on Bring a Trailer. A not-so-spectacular battle between three people ended with one of them buying this Beetle pickup for change: $6,350.
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About the author: Daniel Patrascu
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Daniel loves writing (or so he claims), and he uses this skill to offer readers a "behind the scenes" look at the automotive industry. He also enjoys talking about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies.
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