by Darringeorge314 » 25 Fri Mar, 2011 7:28 am
After lurking as a guest for several months and browsing all the great dune buggies, I decided to join and share my project as well. My name is Darrin.....wife is Ami and we live near Needville, south of sugarland. I grew up driving VW's as a teenager and have owned 2 bugs and one manx style dune buggie. I sold the manx shortly after I married and have regretted it every since. 20 years later, I stumbled onto a fiberglass body and said......why not. Now I have to admit, the body has sat in my barn for well over a year but have finally gotten off my butt and to work. I'm going to include pics of the body and the 71 donor beetle, although I'm further along than those pics. I have removed the chasis....cleaned and shortened it.....rust sealed it with KBS coatings.....and have a rolling chasis complete with transmission installed and brakes and cables. I'll put pics of the chassis as soon as I can. I have a 1900 cc motor set and ready to be installed with twin webber 44's. I was very hopeful to have it up and running for the VW classic but not sure if I'll make that or not. My wife and I plan on spending thursday thru sunday in Fredricksburg......yes she is aware of the VW classic and is going to humor me there as long as I visit the wineries with her. lol. I definately need some of you guys expertise, whereas there are a few things left for me to do on the buggy and I feel quite inadequate. I look forward to meeting and chatting with you all and hope to one day have a buggy that is worthy of being in the company of some of the "show cars" on this forum. (that was definately a compliment.....some of the buggies on here are amazing!) I need someone in the houston area that can sync my carbs. Any recommendations?