VW rat rods? whats up?

**steveyb4342** · 07-04-2007 02:25 PM

Too bad there arent many bugs around here, Id love to pick one up and use it as a "hot rod beater" lol. Kinda like a rat rod. Id like to do something alot like the one above! Looks good but isnt over done.

Steve

**HemiTCoupe** · 07-05-2007 06:53 AM

**46FordSuperDlux** · 07-18-2007 10:06 PM

Originally Posted by HemiTCoupe

VW pic's --->

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s.../VW/74_1_s.jpg

Pat

So what year VW is that?

Was that a mistake or is there a VW motor in there? Or am i just naive and VW made boats?

**HemiTCoupe** · 07-19-2007 06:51 PM

I don't own it, but it is a ACVW motor.

Pat

**RoscoeFink** · 08-23-2007 06:16 PM

Hey, HemiTcoupe,
The car http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s...W/MVC-179S.jpg
looks A heck of a lot like "Suzie The Little Blue Coupe" it's an old 50's Disney cartoon, Google it.

**Don Shillady** · 08-24-2007 09:17 AM

I used to think about this VW stuff night and day. I had a gold metalflake dune buggy for a comuter car with a black vinyl top that had Model T based windows in the back on a 'cut '60 pan and a 1600 engine with a Norris cam and dual port heads. Also a '67 with a Judson supercharger. Lots of fun! The beauty of it was that you started with 26-28 mpg and no matter what you did with the cam and heads etc, you would still get 22-24 mpg! I am only replying because several VWs I have looked at lately had badly rusted (dangerous) pan rot, especially on the battery side. As I recall there is a 1" square upward indented channel all along the pan under the doors and you can buy or make 1" square steel bars to weld or bolt up in that channel which greatly strengthens the perimeter of the pan which is very important since there is no frame, just a steel pan. Those steel bars should be able to save a half rotted pan along with some weld-in sheet steel (heavy gauge).
Hey what I really want is one of those gyrocopters with the VW pusher propeller behind the seat. The rotor is not powered so you just find a nice flat highway and rev it up and take off and then land on a highway between cars on some backroad blacktop surface? The nice thing about that set up is if you run out of gas at 5000 feet the unpowered roter just brings you down like a maple seed. I suppose the air-space people and the highway patrol would have some problems with takeoffs and landings from highways but when we were kids we were promised that "in the future everybody would have a commuter-copter", what happened to that idea? Maybe it had a mid-air collision?

Don Shillady
Retired (?) Scientist/teen rodder

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