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mountainkowboy
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| esde wrote: |
Courtesy of the samba classifieds
which I would proudly drive and call mine. |
I WANT IT!!!! |
I want to see details!  |
Here you go: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=522286&highlight=moose+knuckle
As for all who say they'd roll it why didn't you step up when it was for sale a couple years ago?, it was very reasonably priced yet no one put thier money where thier mouths were  , sadly it's now donor parts that have helped many other buses  . It was indeed a blast to drive though  , the front wheels didn't do a hell of alot of anything aside from preventing it from standing on it's nose  |
TOUCHY!
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Jacks
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Tracked vehicles look cool, but in reality, they can only travel around 30 mph top speed. Zero use on dry land. The low price gives away the uselessness. Imagine driving it 100 miles. A stock bus, with chains, can go nearly everywhere this thing can go.
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gr8cobbler
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This one looks pretty fast at 72 MPH 
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GeorgeL
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Pretty cool, but I still don't see what it can do that a wheeled vehicle cannot.
Also very odd that all the men in that video had identical beards...
Here's another:
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caleb0101
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found in the engine abortions thread, its a sedan with the roof cut off |
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-Zodiac-
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| found in the engine abortions thread, its a sedan with the roof cut off |
Must have done it for 'maximum aerodynamics"? 
Look at all of those gauges though..
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GeorgeL
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From the engine section of the Mid-America catalog?
Reminds me of when I was 12 and I was dreaming of designing dashboards from the JC Whitney catalog. More gauges is better, right? |
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bandi
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| GeorgeL wrote: |
From the engine section of the Mid-America catalog?
Reminds me of when I was 12 and I was dreaming of designing dashboards from the JC Whitney catalog. More gauges is better, right? |
Hah... so I wasn't the only one! I wish I could find this drawing of a rally Beetle I did when I was 9 or 10... the dash had indicator lights for EVERYTHING as well as gauges for everything.
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thebucket
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andk5591
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found in the engine abortions thread, its a sedan with the roof cut off |
Ya know - with all the hardware overkill, which is definately just for show, you would think that they would have made an effort to clean up the hoses and stuff. Would still be over the top, but would have looked better anyway. Just sayin'
And then as I look at it again, I wonder how far it would shoot the piston out the side if it all was kicked in at once.... I am thinking at least 100 feet.....
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GeorgeL
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| With all that hardware it would be difficult to get that engine to run, let alone grenade it. I suppose you could flood it, load it up with nitrous, and blow the engine to small pieces without the need to get it running. |
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72Gecko
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Found this monster on Craigslist today
73 Bug sitting on a lifted Toyota chassis, 22R motor
http://hudsonvalley.craigslist.org/cto/4882540243.html
I'd roll it (as soon as I go around a corner )
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bandi
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It's so poorly executed! It hardly has more ground clearance than a stock Beetle!
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Marcus BULLIZEI
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found in the engine abortions thread, its a sedan with the roof cut off |
What was the idea? To expose as much engine-parts to an "aircooling", as possible?
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Bret2094
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found in the engine abortions thread, its a sedan with the roof cut off |
What was the idea? |
To waste money...seriously tho, I could sell off all that crap and afford enough to rebuild 2 or 3 cars
Bret
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beetlenut
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If Rube Goldberg built a custom VW, this would be it! 
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- Words to live by right there!
My 74 Super rebuild thread: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6507104#6507104 |
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caleb0101
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found in the engine abortions thread, its a sedan with the roof cut off |
What was the idea? |
To waste money...seriously tho, I could sell off all that crap and afford enough to rebuild 2 or 3 cars
Bret |
I know you would think that wth that much money in the motor they would of at least used a real vert and not a sedan with the roof hacked off |
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Ratte
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There is no possible way to turn the front wheels. Back and forth off the trailer is about it. Unless that thing is on some serious bags to lift it so the front wheels can swing.
Compared to that ridiculous thing Will.I.am. had built. At least that one was streetable. |
You're wrong, Ron Berry's Surf Seeker is drivable, have a look here:
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For Germans: have a look to this article
For the others: Google translated
And Click "Article" bellow the picture |
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veedubman72
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Ok, drivable. Like I said, back and forth off a trailer and through the exhibit hall it's being showed at. It still needed the entire cul-de-sac to make a turn. I wouldn't take that thing out into regular traffic where I would have to make tighter turns than that.
I think it's a very creative piece of rolling art and lots of talent went into that. Lord knows I couldn't pull that off.
Still don't like the will.i.am car though |
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-Zodiac-
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I don't know why you guys keep talking about Non VW cars on here
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