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Bugaboo!
The VW Beetle that Thinks' it's a Dragster!

  • Original year: 1971
  • Company: AMT
  • Scale: 1/25
  • Designer: A "group" design, David Wilder, John Bogosian, David Carlock

Longest Beetle body in captivity...it flips up in funnycar fashion! Beneath Bugaboo's Beetle body shell...blown "bug bomb" Hemi engine--"long gone" custom-engineered stretched frame--mag and spoke wheels--monster vinyl slicks!


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Dave's comments:

A tough kit to find in mint condition like this. Of the AMT show dragster series, this one is the coolest and has the best box art. And no wonder- - all three of AMT's concept designers got in on this act!

Unbuilt
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