I am getting back into the VW Bug world after a 20 year hiatus. My first car was a 64 Bug (with sunroof) that I bought for ** $40 ** that needless to say was a bit of a fixer-upper. Good thing I bought it when I was 14 so I had time to fix it up and get it running by the time I could legally drive it. It came out pretty nice, even the $69.95 Earl Scheib paint job looked pretty good (did I mention that my family and I didn't exactly have a lot of excess cash running around in those days). Unfortunately the car was totaled in a MVA after I got to drive it for a little over a year.
Now that I am all grown up and have a bit more dough to pay with I am in the process of building a garage so I can do a restoration on a mid-60's vintage bug (I knew I hung on to my John Muir "Idiot" book for a reason). I'm looking at a car that is in fair shape, but like many Bugs the heater boxes and muffler are hopeless. I am wondering if there are any after market makers of heater boxes and mufflers that fabricate these parts in stainless steel. I know that when I was working on my first car and some of my friend's Bugs that the heater boxes tended to be trouble spots due to rust and corrosion. It would seem logical to fab these parts in stainless. I know that both of my late model Japanese cars have all stainless exhaust systems.
What about it guys, do such beasts exist?