I Want This VW!!!!!!

[Racerbvd]

My French is very rusty, but I can make out enough to tell that is what I have been talking about building, but keeping plain Orange I would love to show up at a DE with this VW!!!!

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=717719

[Evans, Marv]

Damn, 140,000 Euros? Isn't the dollar Euro exchange rate somting like 1.14? If that's the case, you'd better be ready to dig deep.

[Evans, Marv]

I meant 1:1.4.

[Paco Anton]

The price is only 14.000, not 140.000:

Voiture compléte Prete à courrir = 14000euros (complete car, ready to race)
sans moteur = 10000euros (without engine)
sans mot. boite et jantes = 8000euros (without engine, gearbox and rims)

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by Paco Anton

The price is only 14.000, not 140.000:

Voiture compléte Prete à courrir = 14000euros (complete car, ready to race)
sans moteur = 10000euros (without engine)
sans mot. boite et jantes = 8000euros (without engine, gearbox and rims)

Thanks, that is what I thought, 14,000.

[porsche4life]

So when are you going to France Byron?

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

So when are you going to France Byron?

Hell No!!!!!!!!!!!

Might be moving to Portland, not anytime soon though, but I still like that bug!!!

[MichiganMat]

Why aren't more bugs setup for road-racing?

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by MichiganMat

Why aren't more bugs setup for road-racing?

Sad isn't it, there are still some pretty fast ones running in Vintage events

[legion]

Originally Posted by MichiganMat

Why aren't more bugs setup for road-racing?

Because they all have since rusted and expired?

[cgarr]

I wish they had a pic under her skirt!

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by MichiganMat

Why aren't more bugs setup for road-racing?

Aerodynamics, for the most part...A friend had a 69 Bug with a 115 Horse 912 engine, plus 5 speed transaxle...without any aero aids it got really spooky past 100 mph...

[Tobra]

why not build one of your own? basically same layout as a 911 if you are talking about a super beetle

I remember reading an article where a 2.4 liter 4 cyl Super Beetle beat a 2.4 liter 911 on a tight road race course, not the best aero, but there is no replacement for light weight. Both were full on race cars as I recall

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by Tobra

why not build one of your own? basically same layout as a 911 if you are talking about a super beetle

I remember reading an article where a 2.4 liter 4 cyl Super Beetle beat a 2.4 liter 911 on a tight road race course, not the best aero, but there is no replacement for light weight. Both were full on race cars as I recall

That is the plan that I have had for a while and I already have a stock pile of bits just for that, but time is not my friend and I have a few other projects on the burners.

I remember reading an article where a 2.4 liter 4 cyl Super Beetle beat a 2.4 liter 911 on a tight road race course

Correct, but it was a 993 Cup car that got beat

I want a sleeper, an Orange Super Beetle with widened steel wheels & VW caps (yes, I have the core rimes too)

[ckissick]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Aerodynamics, for the most part..

Aerodynamics, schmerodynamics.

http://www.race-taxi.ch/indexx.htm

[Joe Ricard]

Always wanted to build a Kafer cup racer.

Some how I got bitten by the 914 bug instead. So deep I will never get out from under them.

[jhynesrockmtn]

Why aren't more bugs setup for road-racing?

This one races in my group in our vintage club SOVREN. Runs with our Formula Vees (which are bugs basically, set up for road racing). 1965 Bug with a cool racing history. If I remember the plaque correctly has been a racecar most of it's life. Part of the Emory Motorsports stable of cars.

[bt1211]

A Ghia came in third(historic A) in the '07 Panamericana in Mexico

http://retroracing.biz/modules/wfchannel/

Lots of Bug racing in Europe(thats how the Germanlook Bugs started)

[URY914]

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