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bren
November 6th 2002, 11:20
UK track cars from the 70's and 80's...
suddenly your project doesnt seem so 21st century huh?! ;)

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/52709.jpg
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/52711.jpg
http://images.photobox.co.uk/dev/raid/s/0/1/4/14847/13660/162593.s.jpg

Oliver Knuf
November 6th 2002, 11:37
What's thaaaat? Besides it looks ugly, it's pretty cool as these pictures are nearly 30 years old....

...nice UK stuff!

vujade
November 6th 2002, 13:29
nice pics...like the squashed bug look!

bren
November 6th 2002, 13:31
Originally posted by Oliver Knuf
What's thaaaat?

haha!! thats what i said when i saw the pics!! ;)

the white bug is based on the widened monocoque chassis of a Trojan Formula 5000 car and known as "Boss Beetle". It was sponsored for a time by Autocavan. Powered by Chevy V8 with four 48IDA Webers, Hewland gearbox etc. Awesome is not the word! 0-60 in about 3.5 seconds, 0-100 in 9-ish. The car was built to contest the Special Saloon championship.

At the same time there was also a car known as the DFVW – a Type 3 Fastback powerd by a Cosworth DFV formula one motor in a monocoque chassis.

There was also the Karmann Ghia (no pics i can find) powered by a mid-mounted Cosworth four-pot. These were all amazing cars and they still exist but no longer race.

heres a pic of the bugs rear end
http://images.photobox.co.uk/dev/raid/s/0/1/4/14847/13777/164374.s.jpg
and heres its heart!!
http://images.photobox.co.uk/dev/raid/s/0/1/4/14847/13604/161693.s.jpg

Shad Laws
November 6th 2002, 13:43
Hello-

Damn, and I thought my Fastback was quickish... this puts it to shame!

Was that the era of the 1.5L artificially aspirated F1? If so, it's the perfect engine swap.... a Cosworth 1500 for a VW 1500 :-) Power would go from <100hp to >1000hp...

Take care,

Alex
November 6th 2002, 16:39
I am speechless.

Alex:wowwow:

zen
November 6th 2002, 17:01
gotta say "i like that". chop the top a little and i think it would help the looks. not quite going to run out and modify mine to go for that, but still cool.

dcatts
February 21st 2003, 16:28
Anybody have some links to more info on these cars? I think they look kind of cool.

-dcatts

kit
February 21st 2003, 17:00
Hi Shad and folks
I seem to recall seeing an article on the KG in an old edition of "Car & Car Conversions"...... sometime after they used to race a beetle.
The Boss Beetle has also been in various publications including an cutaway line drawing.I think the Fittipaldi brothers even ran a twin flat 4 in a similar chasis?
Cosworth ran the 1.5ltr v6 turbo"GB" engine in the mid 80's.they stopped the programat the end of season 87 because they were using a 3.5ltr NA v8 in 1988 when I joined the firm
kit

Superman
February 21st 2003, 22:38
Now make that a W8 and the car a little less "cut-up" looking and I'd like it.

bren
February 24th 2003, 13:12
keith sueme wrote an article about them in his column in volksworld a few months back, about a month after i first posted this i believe? take a look... he wrote some interesting stories about the cars..

Oliver Knuf
February 25th 2003, 04:52
The Type 3 with V8 was his discussion point, very interesting story!