Badass VW

all i gotta say is it took alot of vision and tallent to produce that car..like it or not for its looks or its origin..it still took some one with some tallent and vision to create!

 

Cartoon...

 

I can say that the young guy has some great fabrication skills. Also stayed on the project until it was finished.

 

MMMMM....

I'm off my meds, but with proper cage and safety mods, could this thing fall into some obscure SCTA class?

There has been some totally bizarre cars set records before.

 

I'd roll in it. The fab work is incredible.

 

Not that it matters,but I dig it! And remember Ed Roth really liked VW's, he built a lot of cool stuff off that platform.

 

Should be legal in Competition Coupe.


Being legal,and being competitive,are two different things.

 

I dig it. Dude definitely knew what he was doing. And he did it well. The whole build is interesting to see.

 

yeah, he's the guy who sings "we represent the lollipop kids"

 

Franz is over 6' tall,IIRC.

 

It always comes back to the rule: build what you like not what others want you too. The car itself is not for me or some of the others but the skills are there . And as Ryan said the Dub is part of hot rod history. Take it or leave it. So i'll give him props for the work. He's good. Now I'm left wonder what he can do with some vintage American iron?........ maybe we'll see a different post another day.

 

Yea, with the flipped reduction boxes that thing should get up to about 60mph. It will get there in a hurry, but it isn't going to go a whole lot over that.

 

It's a '65. First year with the big windows, last year with large side trim and wide five bolt pattern. They're not collectable like a '32, but they're both one year only production models.My first car was a'65 bug, good memories.

 

Them 32 in. tall tires will make up for the gearing.

 

heres a link to the VW Paradise rail. It'll be interesting to see how it runs with that new setup once they get it dailed in

http://www.dragracingtv.com/vw/misc/twin-turbo-drag-racing-video-vw-nail.html

 

holy shit a 7 second VW engined dragster thats wicked

 

The previous, back-motored rail of VW Paradise has run in the 6.50's IIRC and at way over 200 mph... I was at Phoenix when they ran thier first 200 mph pass in the "Paradise Express"

and '67 was the last year of the wide-5, 5 on 205 wheel bolt pattern, at least in the US... and the "1300" on the decklid designates it as a one-year-only F case 1300 cc engine, which was used only in 1966 in the States.

 

VW's are Lame!...who would want one of those Nazi designed little things anyway??


this one is cool though!........

 

Heh Heh...

 

Ohhh Yea!...this thread is getting deleted!.....

 

sweet, rolling on gas burners. '51?

 

mmmm 3 fold rag....

 

Yeah it made me vomit too. That poor split looks squashed. It would have been so much cooler to me if it was more like the pair posted by JJ and graverobber.. If you want the hot rod look, build a friggin hot rod.

Yeah yeah, I know, it's his to do with as he pleases.. I'm just not into the volksrods.

'Traditional' cal bugs however, rule.

I wonder how fast that launch vehicle would go if you lit off the rocket.. Jesse can you set that up? B-ville or bust.

 

Have had a shit load of cal look cars, this is the "anti" cal look car.

 

freakin sweeeet

 

That must explain why it was a bit more "genteel" than I was expecting when I opened it

Nice fabrication is OK by me no matter what it was to start with.

 

It's not a real split. It was faked.

 

Here is a direct link to the build gallery for those interested.

http://kustomcoachwerks.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=33953



Here is another car built at the same shop. More of a gold chainer.

http://www.kustomcoachwerks.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=3479

 

This is how a Bug should look:



Or this: