Supersized VW Beetle towers over traffic

The Volkswagen Beetle earned a reputation over the years for being a small, quirky German car nicknamed the Bug. This particular Bug, built in Jefferson Iowa, is certainly quirky, but it's far from small. In fact, it's a 1.5 scale VW Beetle, and its chassis was taken from an old airport fire truck.

Say hello to "Big Red," the supersized Bug that towers over Iowan traffic.

Kirk Strawn, Big Red's creator along with his brother Erik, owned a VW Beetle as his first car at age 16. Perhaps succumbing to the modern American motto that 'bigger remains better,' Strawn, with help from a local teenage welder, created a Beetle, named after its fire truck underpinnings, that stands nine-feet tall, a whopping twenty-three feet long and eight-feet wide.

In the town of Jefferson, it overshadows everything in its path.