"Is That One Of Them VW Kit Cars?"

[JTO]

A guy at work asked me that as I pulled into work today. Sheesh!

Troy

[RickM]

Here's a honest to goodness Porsche kit car: http://covintechnical.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

BTW, you're not alone with your car being called a kit car.... Call my car a kit car? Argh!

[Panzer909]

Originally posted by JTO
A guy at work asked me that as I pulled into work today. Sheesh!

Troy

Jeez - what a dummy.......


.............anyone with half of a brain knows that it's a REAL VW!

[JTO]

Ha! That is sad (linked post). But this guy is a HD motorcycle guy. A millwright, etc. He should know better.
Troy

[JTO]

Oh, by the way; I really like air cooled VWs. Designed by the good doctor.
troy

[}{arlequin]

Noah was helping me install my MSD and we were asked: "are you guys putting nitrous in that thing?"

he he, yeah, we go gonna go w/ a 150 shot, dawg....

[Todd Simpson]

A coworker saw my fire extinguisher and said "you gotta a nitro tank in there?"

He didn't even get "nitrous" right.

[adomakin]

nice height troy

[TRE Cup]

now i draw the line at converting those covins into RSR's!!

[Jamie79SC]

I'll never again sneer at the Chev V8 conversions...

[Kurt B]

Okay, so someone explain the covin thing. One goes to a great amount of work and (apparently) apples some good skills to...turning a Beetle into a 993 with some kind of Ford engine in it? But all of the interior and gauges are real so evidently some 993 was butchered to do this?

If you actually just went out and bought a real Porsche and applied those same skills to restore it you'd be a hero rather than a poseur.

[jrdavid68]

Yes

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[Kurt B]

Reading more at the Covin site...
"James has owned his Covin for a few years now and I travelled down to Luton with him to view it and give it the once over. It was fully built, complete with C2/C4 body kit, Porsche interior and it was clear to see that someone had put together a very good quality build that had unfortunately fallen into the wrong hands and you all know what that means.... Yep the brain dead had been at it."

So we have a C2/C4 looking thing...weighing, ok 1700 lbs or so.

"In order to get his Covin on the road and get to ALL the shows through the year he acquired an old 1200cc VW air-cooled engine and simply used it like this for 2 years travelling some 400 miles round trip..."

Ha ha ha. That's so fukking stupid...I mean. This isn't just some offbeat e-bay add. This is a group of people who routinely create modern 911 looking automobiles with 1200 cc VW engines in them.

It's one thing to put a 1200 CC VW engine into a 356 Replica. That makes complete sense--period wise, sound-wise etc, and I'd love to have one.

It makes plenty of sense to make a 550 spyder replica w/ a 4 cylinder hopped up VW engine in it provided you know if you get into a collision with a modern car you will be James Dean.

But to make a 1990s 911 w/ a 4 cylinder 1200 cc engine in it.

Okay. I'm probably going on way too long about this...

[Batan]

Man...talking about defying the point. I understand driving a Speedster replica since you can't find one if your life depended on it but driving a 911 replica is just...not cool. Especially Ford engined. Also, in Speedster times, the Porsche and VW were such close cousins so that is, well, ok.

But take those Ferrari replicas(Fieros)...wouldn't you you rather drive a Fiero that drives like a Ferrari then a Ferrari that drives like a Fiero?

[HardDrive]

How much does it cost to build a fake 911? I mean you could simply buy one for less than....it defies all logic that .....AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!

I need to start selling those 'Make your pontiac fiero in to a ferrari' kits.

[azasadny]

When some nieghborhood kids saw the engine, they thought the fan was a "turbo" and said "cool, it's a turbo"!!!

[thomschoon]

Check out the link for one on Evilbay, too funny a 959 with a VW motor

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=29750&item=4544112332&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

[JTO]

That whole Covin thing defies me. Its like the kids with the fart can exhaust, side skirts, huge wheels, scoops and wings on their four door four cylinder automatic 1995 Honda Accord. What? It looks stupidly over the top and is slower than just about anything out there. The Covin mentality must be the same; if it looks "cool" that's what matters. I don't know, its a foreign culture to me.
Troy

[JTO]

Thanks adomakin
She's low:

[TRE Cup]

Actually a V6 Fiero GT drives better than a 246 Dino!! but which one holds its value and has the better style? hmm...