it was in 1961 dick beith broke the land speed record with is supercharged oval bug , the 36hp had a pepco supercharger and the car had a top speed at 101mph incredible for a bug in 61
Alien bug would have been very well able to be a early 70's gasserof having run against inch pincher, lightning bug, anderson bros etc... so the realization of this project was succeeded, that's very simplistic as in the time