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Do early SWB cars make good outlaws / hot rods?
Do early SWB cars make good outlaws / hot rods? What are the pitfalls? Advantages?
Assuming the car is not a good candidate for restoration... |
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11-15-2013, 10:04 AM
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The Factory did it in 1968.
These days if you want to outlaw an SWB, the highest performance and value preserving option is to build it like a 911R clone. That way you might actually be able to recover the economics. So, a SWB car with no interior and a cage and R flares and a massaged 3,0 that will spin to 9000 RPM and huge chassis modifications to handle the power and big brembos to stop it, yes, that is outrageous, that turns heads. Like this, look very closely here:  Don't know what you mean by not a good candidate for restoration, these days a car has to be pretty far gone for that to be the case-- and if so, it's probably not a very good candidate for a hotrod. SWB cars in general are time machines, valued not because of their big tires and horsepower (they have neither) but because they are a throwback to Butzi's original design. As such, they can be modified, but the dollars involved are extreme, and the equivalent dollars expended down the restoration road would probably be better spent. But to each his own.
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11-15-2013, 10:17 AM
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yes. 3.0 dyno day - a pleasant surprise weighed in the SWB today....1892 lbs new go-fast goodies for the SWB, hee, hee. hee well...at least it didn't go BOOM..BANG...BANG...BANG... went autocrssing today in my SWB |
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11-15-2013, 10:42 AM
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912 SWB
1967 porch 912
