Porsche powered beach Buggy

[ruvwen]

After some of you from the Porche 911 forum asked here you go with the story...

I will try to summarise all the resto work we have done on a very special Dune buggy over the last 3 months

It is a Hispano Aleman buggy, originally manufactured in Madrid (Spain) in 1970. It had an obvious "inspiration" in the Manx buggy. The Hispano Aleman company made a total of 12-15 buggies (no-one knows for certain). Some more info on Hispano Aleman here (unfortunately in Spanish, but you can use your computer's translator) http://www.autopasion18.com/HISTORIA-HISPANO%20ALEMAN.htm

And this particular one, was the very own car of the owner of the Hispano Aleman factory, Ben Heiderich, who also was the official Porsche importer in Spain at that time. Hence he had very good access to Porsche parts, so build a buggy for himself with as many Porsche parts as he could

Here is the summary of Porsche parts that went into the car when it was built in 1970:
1. Porsche 356 SC engine
2. 741 dual-nose Porsche gearbox
3. Porsche 356 B brakes
4. Porsche 356 Koni absorbers
5. Porsche 911 swb gauges (5 of them)
6. Porsche 911 R Recaro seats (or so I have learned in this other post https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=709029)

Below some pics of the car as I bought it:

I will post the different steps of the resto process we have followed on the car. Hope you all like it
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[Wolfgangdieter]

Wow - that should be a real rocket! Awesome build. Very costly to replicate today.
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CMC '57 Porsche Speedster Replica and Dolphin boat tailed full pan VW MOD-T Street Buggy

[Jos.Hall]

Ruvwen!!!!! What a buggy! Wow. That is exactly how I'd build one if I could. Until I read your description I could've swore it was a Manx body with the Aleman badge on it.

I can't wait to see what you end up doing with it. If it were mine, I'd have it detailed and then just enjoy it. It looks perfectly preserved. Please Please don't recover those Recaro seats. The original upholstery adds so much history and provenance to the car and they still look great. One of the things that you may not have noted but the steering wheel appears to be a Momo Prototipo which would've been the choice of Porsche racers as well.

As for the gauges, I would venture to guess that if you look at the part numbers on them you'll see a 914.xxx.xxx number along the rings. The tachometer is definitely for a 914/912e. It was the only Porsche tach that redlined at 5800rpm and it was also for a 4cylinder as opposed to the 6 cylinder of a 911 tach. The date should be on the back of those gauges and if I had to venture a guess, I'm going to guess they have a 70 or 71 date on them. I'm not sure what the other two guages are from but if you post closer pictures I can probably id them.

Looking at the radio... is that a Blaupunkt frankfurt? It appears to be missing knobs which isn't a huge deal as there are thousands of them for sale around the $20-$30/pair range.

All in all a huge score! I'm really interested to see that Momo steering wheel. That alone could be an easy $1000+ steering wheel. I'm also excited to see that motor. The exhaust alone looks really trick and I'm sure that motor has some goodies on it.

Please keep us updated and thanks for tagging me in the other thread. I love this kind of stuff.

[ruvwen]

These are a few scans from an article writen in August 1970 on a Spanish magazine on the Hispano Aleman buggy, built in Madrid by the Hispano Aleman company

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[ruvwen]

[oprn]

Nice to see a one of a kind Buggy preserved in this way!

[Wetstuff]

It is wonderful to see buggies from other countries. The buggy seems to have universal appeal. Naturally!

Jim
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Manx #2614

[BL3Manx]

The yellow one is a Manx 2(or direct Manx 2 copy). It has the larger bump on the front of the hood, the dash with the V shaped bottom and the backseat with no wells which the Manx 2 had. I'd check very carefully whether it at one time had a serial number tag or lifting blocks

[ruvwen]

[ruvwen]

So going back to the resto work we have conducted, let me start with the chassis, which was highly modified back in the day to accept the Porsche 356 powertrain

We sandblasted it, made some repairs to some bad old welds and small rusted spots, and epoxy primered it for some more 50 years of protection

This is a detail picture of the 70-80 kilos heavy metal plaque which is bolted to the front of the chassis, as apparently the car had a tendency to pull the front wheels off the ground when accelerating heavily

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50 11A
52 11C
52 11C
52 Pre-A convertible
53 11G
54 113
54 151
54 Pre-A
58 typ14
61 typ14 convertible

[BL3Manx]

[ruvwen]

[BL3Manx]

Yes!

Take pictures of the whole body, hood and dash, top, bottom, front, back and sides and make sure those bumps are clearly visible and send them to Meyers Manx and they will probably confirm its a genuine Manx 2.

http://meyersmanx.com/manx_registry?fbclid=IwAR39h...fNJeKTG1us

[oprn]

It seems strange that it would need all that extra weight on the front. I wasn't aware that the 356 engine was that powerful. Could it be that the weight was added to try and improve the front/rear weight bias for better cornering?

[ruvwen]

[ruvwen]

Continuing with the resto work, and moving to the body preparation and painting, this was a pretty straighforward exercise, as the body was very sound, so other than closing a few holes and fixing some small spots all the rest was a pretty easy job

There were 3 layers/colors underneath: yellow, red and the base gealcoat which was green. We sanded all the paint to get to the base green, and then we applied two coats of primer, before painting it yellow

At some point the rear part of the body was extended, to better cover the Porsche engine and exhaust

In this picture you can see the "bump" which according to the experts potentially identifies the body as an original Meyers Manx. Apparenly this was designed to be able to stack the bodies on top of each other to be able to transport them more easily. I still need to talk to the Meyers Manx registry experts to get 100% confirmation on this being an original Meyers Manx body

Here you can see the "bump" again

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50 11A
52 11C
52 11C
52 Pre-A convertible
53 11G
54 113
54 151
54 Pre-A
58 typ14
61 typ14 convertible

[BL3Manx]

[ruvwen]

[ruvwen]

[BL3Manx]