Meet Fred Bernhard and his 1962 Volkswagen T1 Race Taxi, complete with the 530-horsepower flat-six from a Porsche 911 Turbo, the transmission from a GT3 and a 143-mph top speed.

What you see before your eyes, in the gallery above, was once a good old Volkswagen Bus, the machine the hippie ... that has been mounted high up on top. It took the unnamed crew behind this ...

The original VW bus is undeniably cool in stock form, but it can really shine with a few modifications. A great example is the pictured 1965 VW T1 Samba, featuring a Porsche engine swap ...

A man named Fred has built a modified Volkswagen minivan. Not normally Top Gear-worthy news ... both the T1 bus and Porsche 911 can trace their lineage - albeit loosely - to the VW Beetle ...

It's a Volkswagen T1 Bus that's been turned into a full-on track machine, complete with a roll cage, racing buckets, and an air-cooled Porsche flat-six engine. This bus hauls. YouTuber Misha ...