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At the beginning of the '70's there were Supers built which used the VW- Porsche 914 chassis. They were called the Nordstadt Kaefers. Those cars were basicly six cylinder powereded 914's with a highly modified Super Beetle body (welded on top of the 914's chassis platform )
Instead of a heavly modified expensive donor car chassis it would be interesting to use the the steel body of the bug and keep it a bolton onto a custom built midengine layout chassis. The floorpan of the bug is quite heavy and not really very stiff (in torsional stiffnes). Its worth to think about. After all who wouldn't be interested for a bolt on mid eng. replacement floorpan for his Bug body. The supers bodies with their strut towers at the frontend would make great candidates for a custom midengine chassis. Thats just my idea of course! But I'm sure that a super would be very competitive against many modern sportscars (in terms of handling ) if it were midengined (and had a suitable rear suspension).
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