I have a german VW magazine (since I am in Germany) with an article about a beetle body put onto a porcshe 916 chassis. This car was done in the 1970s, when the 1302 changed to the 1303 beetle. Only on second look one would see the different proportions of the body (especially the wheelwells) in contrast to a stock beetle. So the idea of combining two different cars is not new. I can put this article online, if anone is interested. Raimund
BenT Syncro schrieb: > On 11/9/06, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> This reminiscent of a Car & Driver article from a >> couple of decades ago about a Rabbit "suit" cloaking a >> (shortened?) Porsche 928. Looked like a wide-ish >> Rabbit if you looked closely, normal if you did not >> look too closely. And it screamed, of course. >> >> Stephen > > > > IIRC that rabid Rabbit was made a Swiss Company I thought the logo > said "bb" > Not sure if Franco Sbarro may have designed it. Anyway, it was pretty > wild. > > Here I was thinking of putting a fiberglass copy of the Vanagon body on a > Porsche chassis when the chassis sounds like it may be a good platform on > it's own. > > BenT > > |
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