TheSamba.com :: View topic

Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:29 pm

I'm pretty sure the numbers show it's a 67 Pan.... But none the less... I figured I'd put up my build on The Samba as well to show off what I've been doing....Always been a Jeep guy but loved dune buggys....Well, guess who got a glass body buggy for his graduation present (highschool)
Well, it's a Wards Bandit bodied dune buggy on a VW Type 1 pan shortened 14" or so, and came with a King/Link front end and swingaxle with 5 wide drums on it... Long shaft with short shaft drums= one hell of an issue to deal with....
The PO decided he was going to drag race the car, did all the prep work for it, had the engine lined up for it out of Texas, a corvair.... Did some good body work, then I snagged it for $400... No engine.
Ended up with a SP 1600 used engine, but just barely used. Right now it's sitting on Brazilian 5 wide wheels in the rear with 30-9.50-15 BFG AT KO's from a Jeep friend, and 700-15 Nanco fronts (for a chinese tire, these really are kinda cool.......) Got it rolling on all 4's and running over the summer, stopping somewhat (crashed it into my Jeep.... :lol: ) I thought i had brakes, and it was in neutral.... Nope! Engine still had enough torque to burnout, hook up and wheelie the fugger on some 205-50's? IIRC... It's also running old style hubcaps which is just cool lol
Ok picture time....Previous life

Haulin it home

My garage was clean once.... :lol:

my original ideas for it

Somehow saved these

Full house

Engineee

Baja bar that got FUBAR'd when i rear ended the Jeep... But fixed easily. Steve McQueen 1 front light?? Perhaps
Spare/ Rears

Post electrolysis (how many 17 year olds (at the time) do you know doing that in their driveway with a car battery) and aircraft remover, self etch and ivory paint

Posers

Birthday brought on a rear cage and need to mount a skidplate and oil filter... Cooler may be added later on.

Added skid plate and a better mount to the front bumper since the original got bent in the collision

Then a Superwinch 2500lb ATV winch ended on the kitchen table one day with my mom scratching her head "this isn't that sculpture I ordered...."
Yep, it's a WINCH! :lol: :lol:
So I got that mounted up

Somewhere along there I ended up bobbing the nose of it since it looked funkayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy and I hated it. It's now been called the "pug" but I still call it the veewee... Fiberglass work SUCKS!!
More pics as I find them/build progresses

Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:34 pm

Idk how I posted doubles 3 times... PB Sucks, my bad.

A guy on a Jeep forum said that it was the ugliest dune buggy he'd ever seen, but he didn't like VW's to begin with.
She said otherwise.... Her response...................

Post bob

Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:50 pm

Nice find! Come on over to the Fiberglass Buggy/Kit Car forum and join the fun!

Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:13 pm

But mine's an off road car :wink: :lol: :lol:

Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:19 am

I remember that checkered tunnel did ya get the buggy from Faron?

Looks good I really dig the off-road style buggies.

Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:27 am

Yep....That's Faron's old buggy. I guess you know some history for it?

Thu Sep 24, 2009 1:02 pm

Nice! I used to have a bandit buggy.

Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:43 pm

Yer in Co Springs?? Could it have been yours? did you sell it to a guy in Los Alamos NM? That's where Faron (PO) Got it from...
Made a body lift for it tonight, just some extra bracing/ tiny bit of better stance. 1 1/2x1" .120 tubing

Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:31 pm

Lookin good. I like the tires with stock wheels.

Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:56 pm

mine was a 62, i sold it to a guy in colorado.

Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:57 pm

Then I doubt this is your old buggy... I wouldn't mind finding out the history of it at all. I know at one point it was dressed like a clown car. Otherwise, I don't think it had ever been fully assembled. I'm the first to drill it for headlights

Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:44 am

Its not a 67, unless the front of the pan has been modified to accept a link-pin style front beam.

Quote: Post electrolysis (how many 17 year olds (at the time) do you know doing that in their driveway with a car battery) and aircraft remover, self etch and ivory paint

Tell me a little more about this.

Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:28 am

CBDZ_CBDZ wrote: Its not a 67, unless the front of the pan has been modified to accept a link-pin style front beam.
I'm fairly certain the numbers show its a 67. I don't have a title.

Quote:
Quote: Post electrolysis (how many 17 year olds (at the time) do you know doing that in their driveway with a car battery) and aircraft remover, self etch and ivory paint

Tell me a little more about this.

Aircraft remover removed the crappy paint off the wheels, but didn't do anything for the rust. Electrolysis is magic basically... No it uses current in a tub of solution of water and arm and hammer washing soda with electrodes to "un rust" parts. It took about 6 hours for each part, not figuring in having to charge the battery (junked old battery, my charger didn't have enough output for the size) I used rebar tie wire for my electrodes. Worked good, way cheap, etc. The pipe clamp is to keep the tub from falling apart. I had to do the wheels a half at a time

http://antique-engines.com/electrol.asp
http://www.stovebolt.com/techtips/rust/electrolytic_derusting.htm

Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:39 am

Love the project and the way you are heading with it.

Quote: I'm fairly certain the numbers show its a 67. I don't have a title.

Post up the VIN number and we can tell you exactly what it is/was.

Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:57 pm

joescoolcustoms wrote: Love the project and the way you are heading with it.

Quote: I'm fairly certain the numbers show its a 67. I don't have a title.

Post up the VIN number and we can tell you exactly what it is/was.
Thank you and thank you.
Do I need the full vin or can i xx out the last 2 numbers? thanks

Fri Sep 25, 2009 3:49 pm

X out the last numbers, they are sequence numbers.

Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:01 pm

63769xx
Looks like it may be a 1960???

Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:03 pm

Jul. 1960??

Fri Sep 25, 2009 6:52 pm

Warrior 6" beam, urethane bushings, and mounts on it's way. I shall be making my own shock mounts

Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:08 pm

Got my rear skidplate made up today. Goes all he way from the frame horns to the top of my engine cage... I didn't grab a pic yet but I will! It's 14 ga, I figured as light as it is I don't need anything thicker
Got my body lift more done, it's rough but hopefully will work. The body is kinda cadywampus on the pan, not sure how I feel about it.
I drove it for the 2nd time today, that thing is fun!!!

I also tried out the front winch. I had 2 racks from when I would haul steel on a 4 runner (slid into the front/rear hitches and held stock above the roof)
Put that in the Jeep and ran the winch cable to that. That little ATV winch will be the ticket for this buggy