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Beater Puma
PUMA... Is this thing good enough to rescue? Last night I found a trashed PUMA, I think Brazilian thing . Looks like it had a VW mill. Fiberglass body, VW floorpan???? looks like old ASA coupe or Ferrari 246 kind of styling. It has a few fiberglass cracks, good glass, needs an interior and an engine. Maybe a 911 would fit? Anybody hip to these?
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11-03-2000, 08:43 AM
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Yes puma is a brazilian make. Very nice to drive. VW chassis suspension and motor, and its fiberglass. If u can install a 911 motor in it, I think it will be a rocket, they are very light.
Its was popular in the 70īs and 80īs. |
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11-03-2000, 10:07 AM
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Thoughts of what an extra hundred or so horsepower and an extra 150 or so pounds of weight to basically a Type 1 VW chassis ... and Marcello's comment about becoming a rocket reminded me of an anecdote from the space program in the '60s! In the Gemini Program two stronauts got to ride a rather energetic rocket called the Titan II ... originally developed as an ICBM. During several flights the rocket tended to have a habit during the boost phase of developing a porpoising effect in the pitch plane ... it kind of 'bobbed' up and down a bit ... and there started circulation an inside joke among the Astronauts. They joked that the guidance computer ... a military-version of an IBM mainframe, was having trouble deciding whether to accept the reprogramming to go into orbit rather than go down and hit a ground target in Russia!!! There was no basis, in fact, for the joke, since all of the Gemini boosters left the factory headed for NASA, not the military, but it sounded neat, anyway!
I have no doubt that a Puma could handle a 911T engine and transaxle ... and could provide a great deal of fun as a project! But, I'm also sure there would be those who would question whether the 'rocket' would be a controlable booster, or an uncontrolled ICBM with a mind of its' own!!! ------------------ Warren Hall 1973 911S Targa |
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11-03-2000, 02:31 PM
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I ran across one in ~1990 when I was looking around at early 911's. It was a clean calif. example but just wasn't "for me", at least with VW motivation. Neat looking little car though. I don't recall if it is totally built up on a bug chassis or ?
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11-03-2000, 04:26 PM
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