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This unique 1971 Volkswagen Super Beetle is for sale in Thousand Oaks, California with no price listed. The Beetle sits on a Chevy S-10 chassis with power disc brakes on all four corners. Power comes from a 5.7 V8 from a 1995 Corvette connected to a T5 five-speed manual transmission and Subaru STI rear end.<\/p>\n

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Source: Craigslist<\/a> (click here<\/a> if ad disappears) via Daily Turismo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This unique 1971 Volkswagen Super Beetle is for sale in Thousand Oaks, California with no price listed. The Beetle sits on a Chevy S-10 chassis with power disc brakes on all four corners. Power comes from a 5.7 V8 from a 1995 Corvette connected to a T5 five-speed manual transmission and Subaru STI rear end.… Read More »For Sale: 1971 Beetle on a S-10 Chassis with a SBC V8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[352,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beetle","category-bug"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128720,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=128720","url_meta":{"origin":15193,"position":0},"title":"1972 Beetle with a Ford V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"March 7, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"We've seen many VW Beetle swaps but none had the presence of this yellow 1971 Beetle. 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