Fiberfab Avenger GT-12

bigfuninc · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 7:32 am Post subject: Fiberfab Avenger GT-12

Anyone building one?I need some info and parts

Wolfgangdieter · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 4:09 pm Post subject:

Do a search here - there are several threads - one nine page long.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=261289&highlight=avenger+gt12

Also do a web search for various versions of the build manuals.

Really cool car - congrats for finding one.
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bigfuninc · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 5:59 am Post subject: Avenger GT-12

thanks.Yes,going to be a great project,I have this one for about a year.hard finding info on them.Must be a sign it's it a keeper.

braddieselproject · Samba Member Joined: May 25, 2007 Posts: 112

what do you want to know ???

bigfuninc · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 8:47 am Post subject: Avenger gt

i got the info I needed about using an IRS pan.I need a complete dash and consul and a good drivers door.I thought someone here might be able too help.Thanks

kustoms · Samba Member Joined: November 20, 2003 Posts: 1313

Here is the build manual. Its a huge PDF it will take a while to download.
http://www.tjkustoms.com/pdf/Avenger%20GT.pdf
If you get a "To complex" warning just click OK and let it load.
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bigfuninc · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:30 am Post subject: Avenger GT-12

thank you I have an original build book on the car.great video's Kinda interesting no one building any or has one.A really nice yellow one was built by a guy on another web site only build i have seen.

jspbtown · Samba Member Joined: January 27, 2004 Posts: 5157

You mean this one?

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I am here as well.

bigfuninc · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 1:31 pm Post subject: Avenger GT

Yes.Thats the one.Nicest Avenger I have seen yet.Builder is quite talented

surfnc · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 2:42 pm Post subject:

Yes Jeff (jspbtown) is very talented!!

Here is a link to his thread:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=295854&highlight=avenger

Very detailed and professional build!!

Though it is a fairly rare body it's worth, in the end, is what someone is willing to pay. Also it is a very complicated build that will take a lot of time and ingenuity to complete. This is why you rarely see one complete, much less one near the finish of the one Jeff built.

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jspbtown · Samba Member Joined: January 27, 2004 Posts: 5157

Vince you are too kind.

Yes, it was by far the most complicated build I have ever done. The doors themselves took hundreds of hours to get to close right and for the windows to work correctly. They had to be heavily strengthened with 1" square tube (they are merely fiberglass shells) and steel plate just to make them close correctly. They needed door handles to be fabricated to work with the old striker system. Even the door latches needed to be modified.

Then there was the two hatches. Those also needed hours and hours to make them line up correctly and close correctly.

That car burnt me out. I sold an Aztec 7 that was unfinished because of the Avenger and have stuck with buggies. My Deserter is FINALLY ready for paint. I gave it its last bath today and the spray booth is going up right after soccer season (13-0 with a 74-3 goals for/against figure). 5 more games for the first perfect season in school history.

The car will be there...my son's senior year won't be for long.

bigfuninc · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 5:16 am Post subject: Avenger GT

I have been doing body work on mine for a few weeks now.The doors on these monsters are really tough,I was told these bodies fit better on an early Gia pan?Has anyone heard this.By the way body is shaped could be true.

jspbtown · Samba Member Joined: January 27, 2004 Posts: 5157

I couldn't tell you. Mine has serious 2x2 thick wall stock for the outer rails and dropped fiberglass floors. They Ghia pans are significantly different and, while mine was not VW pans, they looked very similiar in shape.

So...if I had to guess I would say no....Bug style pans.

bigfuninc · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 5:59 am Post subject: Avenger GT

Thanks for the info.

shane67fastback · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 10:31 pm Post subject:

got mine today

Dave the Pole-sitter · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 2:09 pm Post subject: Re: Fiberfab Avenger GT-12

* Just a note:
>>> "I NOW OWN 'PATRICK CAKEBREADS' ' FIBERFAB AVENGER GT-12" <<< You Tube.. > Patrick cakebreads AVENGER < to see

Plan on doing it up in GULF LIVERY.

Went to Fargo, ND just before eclipse and picked it up and brought it back to Weeki Wachee, FLA. ...Timed it so I could see eclipse on the way.

Till next post............


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