Any ideas what this one is? (not a buggy, therefore here)

[Kharon8]

I found a kit car from local car site, it's sold "for spares" but it has papers so it's possible to register, just not functioning (and quite expensive for a project).

Haven't bought it yet, but I went to see it and it should be repairable.

The seller has some background for the chassis: It's imported from Italy somewhere in the 80s and the importer brought 5 of these to here (=Finland) before the kit-car fashion faded out and no more were imported.

So it probably is the last one left here.

I browsed through buggy-gallery here and kit car gallery (http://priceofhistoys.com/gallery/) but IMHO none of the pics fit into this, so I'm out of luck. (Or I just can't see, that's also a possibility.)

At that point I'll ask for a helping hand from the forum: Any ideas what this is?

Here's the ad (sold as a Corvette-replica):
http://www.nettivaraosa.com/kunnostettavat-ajoneuvot/1782349

and here's some pics I've taken:
http://kharon.suomiforum.com/vw/img_2831.jpg
http://kharon.suomiforum.com/vw/img_2832.jpg
http://kharon.suomiforum.com/vw/img_2833.jpg

Totally 80s interior, eh?

I have to say that either this is fugly or glorious or both. I can't decide.

What the people are thinking?
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[Letterman7]

Well... since it was an overseas kit, chances are that few here would know what the name of it was, if there was one. Looks to me almost like a Shala-Vette that's been modified, but there's no way to tell for sure. It's funky.. if it floats your kit boat, then go for it!

[Kharon8]

Thanks for reply!

This seems to fall into 'can't decide' -category and in those any outside view is helping.

One thing I have to check is the storage: If there's no more room in there the whole idea is doomed: This kind of car won't survive a Nordic winter outside.

Chassis is from overseas yes but there are a lot of overseas readers here (like me) and someone might know. Even small chance is better than nothing.

I won't say it's pretty but it is just extraordinary or really horrible .... I can't decide, yet.

I had similar doubts with type 34 when I bought it and I'm afraid I still don't know, years later. It doesn't look bad, just ... different.

But it would make deciding at least easier when/if you know what is the Thing(TM)(*) you are buying.


*) Not to be mixed to VW type 181.
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[Kharon8]

I was pondering this for a long time and then I decided that it's too expensive related to amount of work needed to get it running properly again.

I bought a -74 412 instead, less than half of the price, but running and inspected. It still needs work but less than this would have needed.

Still a kind of oddity in VW scene.
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FVWA.fi support group.