Sweet Stretch: 1972 Volkswagen Beetle Limo | Barn Finds

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Champagne wishes and caviar dreams are yours when you’re driving, or riding in, this champagne gold 1972 Volkswagen Beetle Limousine! This is one cool car and it’s listed on Hemmings with a $17,900 or best offer asking price. Oddly enough, it’s located in Champaign, Illinois.

This Beetle Limo (I never though I’d say that) was “stretched 4 feet in the late 1980s.” Luckily, this car “has approximately 300 lbs of additional structural suppsort [sic]. An upholstered roll bar between the front and rear compartments gives the body additional structural rigidity. The body is straight. No flexing.”

This is a great looking conversion in my opinion. The opera lights are a nice touch as is the black portion at the windows. I must have been living in a cave for the first 50 years of my life, I have never seen a Beetle limo before but I’m sure that some of you have.

A phone in a car?! Most of us probably remember the whole car-phone-actually-installed-in-the-car era before smart phones became available. The interior on this Beetle limo looks as nice as the exterior does. I wonder what the money-making portion of the interior looks like: the rear. Let’s open the rear suicide door and check it out.

As if this car isn’t cool enough already, it has a sliding glass divider in-between the front and rear seating areas. Someone put a ton of money and work into this one. The business end of this Beetle limo “Will accomodate [sic] 4 medium-sized adult rear ends or about 6 little kids who’re being driven to a birthday party.” They list three things that it could use, “1) front struts–sometimes bounces when driving over bumpy roads, 2) new speaker grill under rear jump seat, 3) TV has power but would need a digital converter box to receive local stations.”

According to the owner, the engine: “Starts fine, runs fine, steers fine, stops fine. Stock 1600cc engine rebuilt in 1998. Approximately 450 miles on rebuilt engine.” If this engine still has 60 hp don’t expect to get your passengers anywhere too quickly but it’ll sure draw a crowd wherever it goes. This car would be a super interesting little weekend business. Have any of you seen a Beetle limo before?

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