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Re: My Beach Buggy
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 6:19 pm
by beetlefanatic
Looking good! Now you just need to get rid of the Toyota engine!

Re: My Beach Buggy
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 3:13 pm
by 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
Re: My Beach Buggy
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 4:11 pm
by Chris
Thanks Thumper,anything is possible and this comes closer than I have seen before.
Re: My Beach Buggy
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:46 pm
by Chris
The "'new" lights.
SSA43707.JPG
Re: My Beach Buggy
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:41 pm
by 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!!!).
Re: My Beach Buggy
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:42 pm
by 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!?
Re: My Beach Buggy
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:50 pm
by Chris
ZeroAxe wrote: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!

Re: My Beach Buggy
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:38 pm
by ZeroAxe
Chris wrote: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???

Re: My Beach Buggy
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:58 pm
by Chris
We'll see,maybe one day.
Re: My Beach Buggy
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:14 am
by Chris
Chris wrote:
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.

Re: My Beach Buggy
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:48 pm
by ZeroAxe
Hey Chris, that aint too bad for a rookie-job

Re: My Beach Buggy
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:53 pm
by 69bug
Not bad Buddy! Looking good.
Re: My Beach Buggy
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:10 pm
by Chris
Thanks,I try.
Re: My Beach Buggy
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 12:11 am
by karmakoma
Zeroaxe took the words straight out of my keyboard.
Maybe you can change the Damn I'm good (Potentially)

Re: My Beach Buggy
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:18 pm
by 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
