Alright VW fans!

[Inked Monkey]

Well my buddy just built a 4 seater dunebuggy for his family and said that I could buy his 2 seater for $200. It was running and driving, but he yanked the motor out to put in his new one. Comes complete with seats, lights, tranny, wheels and tires, so I figured that I can't go wrong.

Should I get an engine that is already running, or should I just get one and rebuild it? and are they very hard?

Also he said that they are real easy to get titled for the road. He said I just need to take a bill of sale from the body and one from the engine to the state trooper and they will issue a vin. Then i can get a title and get it legal for the road. Has anyone had one of these things before?

 

[Bonehead]

I used to have an offroad shop in Oklahoma. This old guy came in with a dune buggy one time for some work. It was tagged and street legal in Kansas. He had headlights, tail lights and all, even a horn, but it was a tube frame buggy with vw power. The work I did was build soft top style doors for the rig, so he could drive in the winter months. So as far as legality, I wouldn't doubt that for a minute. You need a vw guy to answer the engine questons, but it sounds like a good project.

 

[Inked Monkey]

I've always wanted one of these things. There is a couple insane ones driving around here. One has a supercharged 3800 out of a GTP and the other is running a souped up VW w/ nitrous. I ran into the nitrous one a while back. I noticed the wheelie bars sticking out the back so I took a closer look. The guy had me follow him onto the highway, when we were going about 60 he grinned at me, hit the switch, the front wheels came off the ground and he was gone.

I knew from that day that I had to own one!

 

[hillbillychopper]

VW

They are easy to rebuild
You can get rebuild kits cheep
Here in Arkansas I built one for the road
Were the front two bars came up on the cage I put an old rear glass from a dodge truck for my windsheild
I put pipe insulation the kind that is split on one side around the glass then put a bunge cord on it to hold the glass to the frame worked great
turn signals were off a Honda motorcylce
My head lights were Model A Ford
Was titled as 72 VW that the motor came out of

 

[Tripper]

Easy!

They are easy to rebuild
You can get rebuild kits cheep

Inked,
I agree with HBC. My Dad loved to rebuild motors & even worked in a rebuild shop as a young man. He thought the VW was one of the easiest motors to rebuild. The kits are cheap & my Dad could usually pull the motor, rebuild it & stick it back in in a day.

BoB

 

[timbo]

They are easy to build. Watch out for cheapie/junk parts(empi). CB performance has all kinds of good parts. Check out their web site cbperformance.com, they even have a buggy/sand rail section. You could build a stroker engine with deacent heads and carbs and have a blast driving it. I have a 2332cc in my 60 drag bug and run 6.80s in the 1/8 with out nos/turbo and drive it to work sometimes.
Tim

 

[luckyfasteddie]

Check out this site www.hoodride.com LFE

 

[timbo]

Hoodride is gone. The guy that ran it took off with a lot of peoples money(what i read on other vw fourms). Check out thesamba.com, volksrods.com, runtrod.com a lot of pics on there, cal-look.com. Theres a lot more.
Tim