Gasoline
Gasoline Dork
12/19/12 10:17 a.m.

Not mine.

http://valdosta.craigslist.org/cto/3421104611.html

VW based. Styled after the 60's Ford GT40 race cars. Based on VW beetle pan. Needs new pan. No motor/trans. I have original manual in pdf file. Have plans for tube chassis for using mid engined V6 or V8. I have no time for this project right now. Entire rear tilts up for engine access. Trades considered.

andrave
andrave Dork
12/19/12 10:20 a.m.

badass! beetle pans are getting friggin hard to find around here, they have either been restored and garaged, scrapped/rusted into the ground, or turned into dune buggies and other things. But there is so much you can do on a beetle floor plan, I can easily envision this thing with an EJ25 in the back.

Duke
Duke PowerDork
12/19/12 10:42 a.m.

Can't you buy a branditty new Beetle pan from J C Whitney? I know there's an outfit that sells Mexican Beetle chassis.

Adrian_Thompson
Adrian_Thompson SuperDork
12/19/12 10:45 a.m.

I think that's a Fiber Fab Valkyeri, cool car. I seem to recall some were built mid engined and did quite well in Solo II back in the 70's, it's what got Kit cars accepted in D and E mod.

JThw8
JThw8 PowerDork
12/19/12 11:28 a.m.
Duke wrote: Can't you buy a branditty new Beetle pan from J C Whitney? I know there's an outfit that sells Mexican Beetle chassis.

You can get pans but not the actuall replacement chassis which is what they mean when they say it rides on a pan. I think you can still get the mexi chassis but before I'd do that I'd but a dune buggy chassis which is just basically a tube frame version of a beetle chassis.

Duke
Duke PowerDork
12/19/12 12:56 p.m.
JThw8 wrote: You can get pans but not the actuall replacement chassis which is what they mean when they say it rides on a pan.

Yeah, I know what they mean. I thought JCW used to sell a whole rollerskate. It looks like all they have now are the inserts.

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