Daddy; make it go faster! Now this is way to get taken to pre-school, on a nice warm morning in San Diego, where Craig Dickson spotted this bright orange family hauler.
The kids get the full aural experience back there too, with that barely-muffled exhaust inches from their delicate little ears. Somebody call Ralph Nader!
That looks well done. I like the wheels, which look very much like those from one of my R/C cars (Tamiya Hornet).
If their kids are anything like mine, the parents probably hear a lot of “It’s too windy!”, “It’s too cold!” or “The sun is too bright!” 🙂
Amazing the child welfare authorities haven’t been called. That’s definitely not a nanny-mobile.
I am thinking about the air blast right in the kids faces… lol
crazy unsafe idea
Definitely stadium seating…
I like this. I’m past the car seats and should be past the car. Obviously judging from my quickening pulse rate, i am not.
I found a factory making fibre glass beach buggy bodies and some assembled cars in Fleetwood,Lancashire a few miles from Blackpool in the early 70s.The neighbours must have loved the smell and noise!The price of classic beetles today I bet there’s a few sorry people who cut up an original VW
Cutting some up has improved the value of survivors I shot a 66 beetle recently one lady owner the last 45 years shes 92 still driving it all original except now 12 volt has a Sanyo cassette deck and radial tyres, a very cool car and a VW beetle is a fun car with a plastic buggy body and swb.
I test drove one of these about fifteen years ago. Made the mistake of taking it onto a 100km/h stretch surrounded by trucks. Scared myself witless so no sale.
As long as mum or dad doesn’t take this up to ludicrous speed, those kids are going to have plenty fun.
VWs with body attached hold up real well in a crash rollovers end for end theyre pretty solid in service with out that piece I dunno more fun round town or down on the beach than a freeway it would make a lousy commuter.
It certainly would make a lousy commuter in February in the UK
I was living beachfront at the time, so the buggy would have been perfect. Ended up driving a fibreglass bodied SWB Landcruiser with detachable screen and doors and a mandated roll cage that surrounded the whole vehicle on big chunky tires – housemate’s – and an ex-army biscuit tray LWB Land Rover that belonged to a friend. Ahhhhhhhh….. Beachside living.
Well, he has got some 4 point seatbelts and a roll bar. Wouldn’t be suprised if he has the kids wear bicycle helmets as well. For around town, seems responsible to me. Much safer then people riding bicycles towing those kiddie trailers. I’m sure some will be shocked someone could abuse their children in such a manner, the way times are today.
Give them goggles. And if you are a helicopter parent, a full face helmet.
I forget if it was here or CC on the the other site, but there was some self-appointed safety nazi who would rail on about people transporting kids in cars that there too small, too old, too this or that, until Paul told him to take a hike. He was particularly incensed that someone was using a Mini-Cooper ( a real one, not the pretend new one) as child transport.
Transporting kids in small cars ? A good thing that Safety-Psycho never checked here. The norm is 2 preschoolers on a bicycle, with mom or dad as both chauffeur and powertrain.
Happens in the USA too. On a Dutch bike, even…
http://bikeportland.org/2012/06/28/with-six-kids-and-no-car-this-mom-does-it-all-by-bike-73731
I remember that and I think I know who you mean. I’m thankful that the comments on this have been tongue-in-cheek so far. 🙂
It’s probably safer than when I was being hauled around in a pack ‘n play in the back of a station wagon in the 70s. Or on my mom’s lap, with nobody in the car wearing seatbelts.