My Beach Buggy

[beetlefanatic]

Looking good! Now you just need to get rid of the Toyota engine!

[Thumper]

Chris I think I may have stumbled onto what kind of buggy you have. follow the link...

http://www.gobex.co.za/SCORPIO.htm

[Chris]

Thanks Thumper,anything is possible and this comes closer than I have seen before.

[Chris]

The "'new" lights.

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[ZeroAxe]

Me being such a pain in the ass when it comes to "finish", I personally feel that the seats have to many "folds" in it. As if the leather/Vinyl hasnt been pulled tight enough.... Anyway.

Are you sure that steering is not too much Ricer?

For General Look I will give you 6/10 (you loose a few points due to the waterpumper!!!).

[ZeroAxe]

PS. Anyone ever considered that this buggy might have deliberately been modified body-wise purely to make it unique? In that case, no standard mold would fit the bill!?

[Chris]

Me being such a pain in the ass when it comes to "finish", I personally feel that the seats have to many "folds" in it. As if the leather/Vinyl hasnt been pulled tight enough.... Anyway.

Are you sure that steering is not too much Ricer?

For General Look I will give you 6/10 (you loose a few points due to the waterpumper!!!).

Hahahaha!!

Yes,it's a little "ricer",but it's plain with no cf inserts,and it has a good feel to it.

When I have some money one day,I'll change the seats.BUT,the waterpumper stays!

[ZeroAxe]

BUT,the waterpumper stays!

Hypocryte!!! You would go through all the effort to make a SC an Aircooled, but a "poor old Buggy" you wont???

[Chris]

We'll see,maybe one day.

[Chris]

We'll see,maybe one day.

I have to eat my words.

After the fiasco with the engine eating SC,I decided to replace the engine with a aircooled engine.

I scrounged a couple of parts together and I'm busy building my own 1600 engine.

There was a big hole in the body where the aircleaner was mounted which I had to close.My brother came around and helped me with the FG work of which I know nothing about.

We made a paper template then made a tin teplate which we rivited to the body and the put the FG over that.It needs to be sanded and sprayed and hopefully ready for George.

[ZeroAxe]

Hey Chris, that aint too bad for a rookie-job

[69bug]

Not bad Buddy! Looking good.

[Chris]

Thanks,I try.

[karmakoma]

Zeroaxe took the words straight out of my keyboard.


Maybe you can change the Damn I'm good (Potentially)

[Chris]

This is what the bullbar looked like with the radiator


So I decided that I need to fix it after I took the radiator out.It needed to be moved back and needed to be trimmed to fit between the wheels.


Also wanted to raise the bars that attach to the suspension as I didn't like them sticking out the bottom.


Getting ready to refit the bar


And it's welded back on and ready to get a new coat of paint