Had a couple of 'em. My favorite was bought for 200 and had a really tired motor and an ELVIS LIVES! sticker on the motor hatch. Later (bought from an insurance company in Starkville MS) a porsche for scrap that had been pretty much rolled up in a ball for another 200. Spent a day with a torch cutting the car off the motor and transaxle which was somehow pristine inside of the wad. It wasn't hard with a little creativity to install in the '67 bug ...
pulled the spare tire out and put two 50lb sandbags in it's place to keep the front wheels on the ground when you popped the clutch around town. It was squirrely above 120 .. finally slung a rod through the top of the case a couple years later doing somewhere around 150 , painted the road with oil, and caught on fire ... It was a great sleeper while it lasted.
Original motor got rebuilt, the powertrain back in, used for a couple of years, and later sold for 250. Had also touched up the motor hatch with a rattle can, and left the sticker on. My wife (girlfriend at the time) hated that car. Ran out of gas three times in it with her, but no joy any of those times