so you think its a new thing do you?
 

UK track cars from the 70's and 80's...
suddenly your project doesnt seem so 21st century huh?! ;)

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/52709.jpg
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/52711.jpg
http://images.photobox.co.uk/dev/rai...0/162593.s.jpg

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What's thaaaat? Besides it looks ugly, it's pretty cool as these pictures are nearly 30 years old....

...nice UK stuff!

nice pics...like the squashed bug look!

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haha!! thats what i said when i saw the pics!! ;)

the white bug is based on the widened monocoque chassis of a Trojan Formula 5000 car and known as "Boss Beetle". It was sponsored for a time by Autocavan. Powered by Chevy V8 with four 48IDA Webers, Hewland gearbox etc. Awesome is not the word! 0-60 in about 3.5 seconds, 0-100 in 9-ish. The car was built to contest the Special Saloon championship.

At the same time there was also a car known as the DFVW – a Type 3 Fastback powerd by a Cosworth DFV formula one motor in a monocoque chassis.

There was also the Karmann Ghia (no pics i can find) powered by a mid-mounted Cosworth four-pot. These were all amazing cars and they still exist but no longer race.

heres a pic of the bugs rear end
http://images.photobox.co.uk/dev/rai...7/164374.s.jpg
and heres its heart!!
http://images.photobox.co.uk/dev/rai...4/161693.s.jpg

Hello-

Damn, and I thought my Fastback was quickish... this puts it to shame!

Was that the era of the 1.5L artificially aspirated F1? If so, it's the perfect engine swap.... a Cosworth 1500 for a VW 1500 :-) Power would go from <100hp to >1000hp...

Take care,

I am speechless.

Alex:wowwow:

gotta say "i like that". chop the top a little and i think it would help the looks. not quite going to run out and modify mine to go for that, but still cool.

Anybody have some links to more info on these cars? I think they look kind of cool.

-dcatts

a little more info!
 

Hi Shad and folks
I seem to recall seeing an article on the KG in an old edition of "Car & Car Conversions"...... sometime after they used to race a beetle.
The Boss Beetle has also been in various publications including an cutaway line drawing.I think the Fittipaldi brothers even ran a twin flat 4 in a similar chasis?
Cosworth ran the 1.5ltr v6 turbo"GB" engine in the mid 80's.they stopped the programat the end of season 87 because they were using a 3.5ltr NA v8 in 1988 when I joined the firm
kit

Now make that a W8 and the car a little less "cut-up" looking and I'd like it.

keith sueme wrote an article about them in his column in volksworld a few months back, about a month after i first posted this i believe? take a look... he wrote some interesting stories about the cars..

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The Type 3 with V8 was his discussion point, very interesting story!