Date:         Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:54:22 -0800
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Bus passes up a Porsche GT3
Comments: To: BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <ccafde090611091222x11e7f568o339ad509f8474864@mail.gmail.com>
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I don't recall if it was Sbarro or bb who did that
car.  I do recall numerous hot tuner cars from bb in
the magazines of the era.

Just out of school I had a praktikum at BMW in the
summer of '79 doing slug factory work (never touched
an actual car) and I recall that someone on the crew
parked a battered Fiat 600 in the lot daily and that
it had the ultra-cool "bb" sticker on the deck lid.
Guaranteed an extra 5 KPH, no doubt.

Stephen

--- BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> 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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