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November 6th 2002, 11:37
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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!
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November 6th 2002, 13:29
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nice pics...like the squashed bug look!
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November 6th 2002, 13:31
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 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  and heres its heart!! 
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November 6th 2002, 13:43
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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,
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November 6th 2002, 17:01
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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.
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February 21st 2003, 17:00
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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
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February 21st 2003, 22:38
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Now make that a W8 and the car a little less "cut-up" looking and I'd like it.
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February 24th 2003, 13:12
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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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February 25th 2003, 04:52
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The Type 3 with V8 was his discussion point, very interesting story!
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