Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Baja Bug looks like it was ripped straight ... some of you said that if you wanted a V8-powered grand touring coupe from the '80s you'd simply buy a damn Aston ...

Interestingly enough, yesterday's custom V8-powered 1973 Mercury Capri sold ... but those in the back are huge, tucked under Baja-Bug-style fenders. Amazingly, those wheels are only four-lug ...

This remains true even of the larger, yet equally humble Baja Bugs of Southern California ... chassis and powered by a 5.7-liter Hemi V8, the “Huge Bug” came to be after the Tuppers ...

He pulled the Beetle’s factory four-cylinder and performed a daring heart transplant from a 2006 Monte Carlo SS donor car, retaining the original transverse layout of the 5.3-liter LS4 V8 since ...

Land Rover-specialist Twisted Automotive is showing off its take on the Baja Bug. Called the "TBug," it looks like 10 pounds ...

Excellent Bad Idea: Ariel Nomad Tactical Not only is it rocking the big V8 (in the rear, of course) this Baja Bug comes with ...

Fred brought out his '69 VW Baja Bug from DED Episode 23 and went head ... with a GM LS6 crate engine (like the all-aluminum V8 found in a C6 ZO6 Corvette). It's stock other than a small crane ...

There's a lot going on in this photograph, which shows a Beetle accomplishing the not-terribly ... to get power from a small-block Detroit V8, but the point remains: blow their doors off!

Fred brought out his '69 VW Baja Bug from DED Episode 23 and went head ... with a GM LS6 crate engine (like the all-aluminum V8 found in a C6 ZO6 Corvette). It's stock other than a small crane ...