DAMN I was fooled by a VW RPU!

I've seen that one and it's a hot rod that's VW powered... a completly different deal. It looks pretty sweet and I'd park it in my garage. He's been at Donuts for the past few times I've been there.

 

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I agree, but why put a FORD tailgate on it?

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why do anything???

 

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it's like seeing a********** with a nice**** and when you get closer you figure out it's a rocker dude...

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Happen to me.... A few times...

 

That looks sweet!
Maybe spell out "Veedubbya" for a gate script?

VW's didn't have straight axles originally.
They had trailing links with crossed torsion bars. Considered hi-tech at the time and still radical if we weren't so damn used to bugs by now! Bugs are an enginneering marvel. I was totally blown away when I saw my first stripped down Bug chassis! Dr Porsche EARNED his reputation.

I like that little unchopped sedan...The dropped axle would make a SBC swap easy...'course you'd need to build a frame first!
Sorta like a Fiat Altered look.
Hey...If the Italians can give us a HOT ROD, why not the Germans too?

Bill

 

Just another trailer gueen? So you think anything that hits a trailer is a "queen"? Im sure that even you have had a car that hit the trailer a few times, right? All of my cars have seen trailers at one point or another. I towed my Pontiac from CA to TX, does that make it a queen? Nope, dont think so....

 

So, What kind of traditional diesel SUV were you driving when you spotted this trailer with the bug on it?

I caught a buddy with his Deuce HiBoy on a trailer comming back from Jackson last weekend. Now he's afraid I'll put pics of his trailer queen on the internet for all the world to see... I cut him some slack tho because I saw him driving around and burning up some rubber on that thing the week before. It hauls****, just not geared for the hiway.

 

This is no trailer queen boy, this is driven to work all the time to the shop he works for. Also for people giving greif about doing that to a model a bed, What the F**k are you doing on this website, have you seen all the modified cars, lowerred, chopped, channelled, blown, shaved, etc. Now all the sudden the hamb is some purist haven. Ha, Ha, Ha...Dont make me laugh...

 

I like it - It is kool - It is different - I would tow it, drive and park it in my garage. Just because it is on a trailer does not put it in the trailer queen. It is no different when running a SBC in a Ford. Plus there are more VW bodies out there to chop up then your original 20's and 30's bodies. It is kool.

 

I gotta find that old issue ('62?) of Hot Rod with the article on putting a Corvair engine into a Karmann Ghia.

I guess that wouldn't fly too well around here any more, huh? But it is "Old Skool"

 

Well, Well, Well.... I thought we all were "Open Minded", Custom-a-holics, I think it is Cool.
Shall we get off of our "slamming" horses and get on with HotRods?

 

I just looked at the pictures again real close, and notice the doors are welded shut. It could have been a real convertible, at least the windshield frame is geniune VW convertible. The front suspesion looks to be the stock VW stuff. The wheel base could have been stretched by reversing the front suspension links. I like it! I need one. The only problem is finding good VWs in Missouri. I don't care why it's on a trailer. There's lots of reasons to trailer a car. Dean

 

The reason its on a trailer is because will lives about 600 miles away from the vw classic, the show he and the car was at that weekend, and thats quite a ride to take in a volkswagen. I wouldn't trust mine on a roadtrip, I wouldn't trust anycar over 10 years old over 100 miles personally, I just dont feel like being stranded on I-5 with no reception on my cell phone.

 

That project costed a total of $3000 to build. I doubt someone would make a trailerqueen on such a lowbuck ride.

 

The owner of this car is a close friend of mine
who loves american cars as well as volkswagens.
Got the truck bed for free and the bug truck
was born. Im sure that some of you RAT ROD
police have mix match parts on your cars
honda/toyota/subaru/chevy/ford/vw/dodge what ever
WHO THE***** CARES have fun build what you want.
Ever thought he might have did it just to piss off some of
you.
"if people are talking about it you must be doing something right I see a lot of***** no one talks about"

 

That RPU gets the **** driven out of it.I know the guy real well, he lives in the Sacramento area, and drives it every chance he gets. He was down at the largest VW show in the U.S., as his family is the promoters of the show, in Irvine over the weekend of 6-13, and he didn't really have time to drive it areound much. Believe me, that RPU is about as far from being a trailer queen as it can be...
The copper-colored T-bucket that was in Huntington Beach is an original Volksrod (like the Tom Medley/Rod & Custom Magazine ones from the early '70's), owned by another friend of mine. They were made by Kent Fuller, Andy Brizio, and later, Speedway Motors bought out Kent Fuller and made their own "VX-23" kit. If you stick a somewhat mild, let's say, 175-180 horse VW engine into an 1,100 pound car, you do the math...I know you guys won't like it, but the guy with the chop-top primer black Bug with the red early Ford wire wheels has made an adapter that bolts onto the stock VW pan, becomes the spring perch and upper shock mounts for an early Ford front end. I've got one going together right now, with a Magnum 5 inch dropped I-beam, Posie's Super Slider, Wilwood discs, and 10 inch extended wheelbase, so it will look somewhat like the old Fiat Altereds. Yes, I know all that stuff is too high-tech, but I plan of driving the snot out of it when done, and I don't especially like being broke down on the side of the Interstate. If you want to see the adapter for the early Ford front end, go to www.socalook.com.

 

Well I really like it...got me thinking about a cheap car for my daughter when shes old enough !!

Moving the body back on the floorpan is very clever , like it !!
I agree with the Toppolino comment , there are similarities.

FORD on the Tailgate?.....why not change it to FRAUD !!

 

Coupla things-

I think that RPU actually started out as a Bug Sedan. If you look at the very top of the windshield, it is curved, whereas a VW convertible is flat across the top...
Yeah, Will MIGHT have all of $3k in that car. Its a cheap way to get into hotrodding, if you don't have the $$ to get a "T", "A", Deuce, or "34" or whatever. Sure, I'd prefer a '34 3 window, with an injected Ardun engine, but that ain't gonna happen...
And don't underestimate the performance of a hotrodded VW... Any of you that have seen the street legal, licensed, registered, door slammer red VW convertible @ Carlsbad Raceway run in the low low 9's at 140 mph in the 1/4 mile, and then drive it home, know what I mean...stick that same engine/trans combo into something that weighs 400 pounds less, and you are going to have a handful of a car...
I like the idea of "Fraud" on the tailgate, that's funny as hell !!
Volksrods may not be "mainstream", but remember, neither was hot rodding when it started...

 

It's cool. Take a look at the windshield area of an early bug and then look at the same area of a 34 ford , there are a lot of design similarities. It may not be american made but it is a part of america's car culture. I know when I first saw Fred's bug at Muroc several years ago I could not beleive how cool it was, and Fred is a total hot rod guy. He had the vision to build something that was cool out of a little bug. Have a great fathers day everyone.
Chuck

 

<font color="red"> Wow if he has $3k in that************** he should have spent another $800 and built this........
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I wouldn't trust anycar over 10 years old over 100 miles personally

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Why the heck are you here then?

 

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I wouldn't trust anycar over 10 years old over 100 miles personally

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yeah, that was a wierd comment. you should trust your building skills more than that, or test them harder with real driving so that they get better.

 

I trust my skills but***** happens and until you go through the whole freakin car,***** can still happen and I dont want it happening 200 miles from my house. That is one hell of a tow bill. Another thing If you have a motor that is machined to its limits, you don't want to drive it on a long distance trip. I couldnt handle hearing open headers screaming and a blower whining for 600 miles, could you? It would be the worst headache than than a really bad hang over.

 

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I trust my skills but***** happens and until you go through the whole freakin car,***** can still happen and I dont want it happening 200 miles from my house. That is one hell of a tow bill. Another thing If you have a motor that is machined to its limits, you don't want to drive it on a long distance trip. I couldnt handle hearing open headers screaming and a blower whining for 600 miles, could you? It would be the worst headache than than a really bad hang over.

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sounds like you are trying to convince us that driving your own work long distances is a fools errand. ever heard of Murphys Law? i can understand some of the concern... but...

haring asked:

"Why the heck are you here then?"

you here to preach********* opinion, or learn like you said in your intro?

 

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Those exhaust tips do look like they belong on a new suburban or pickup

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They look like bug pack scrambler exhausts...two into one headers for off-roading. The typical Cal-look beetles I've seen all seem to have stingers on 'em

The used to be a kit in JC Whitney to put a nose on a bug that looked like a '40 Ford (OK, not exactly like one, but not like that bulbous VW nose) - put that on with the tailgate &amp; you'd fool even more folks...

I got some hemi valve covers for my SBC &amp; an aircleaner cover that looks like fuel injection stacks too....

 

<font color="green">Now I have NEVER been a bug fan.

I am a closet Ghia fan though.

But that's just personal opinion, I don't even mind looking at them.

The problem as I see it has more to do with your attitude PAPASMURF.

I have been to the VolksRodder site and looked around.

I am willing to bet there are more than a few people on there who would agree that you are a punk.

The trailer queen comment only came up because you started spouting about how driven that car is.

For those who don't live near you, (thank god) it seems odd that a vehicle that is driven so often would be on a trailer to a show.

I think you made the comment bigger than it was meant to be.

Another thing you may notice is that there have been quite a few VW posts on the board. Some very well received. But, typically by long standing members who have interest in VW's and old U.S. tin.

Try improving your attitude and hang around a bit instead of just spouting off about things that this board is clearly not about.

I would hazard a guess that if I came onto the VW board with a*****head attitude, talking about nothing but my cars, that I would not be well received either.

http://volksrods.com/forums/index.php?s=a07bd00983395a436e193b3cb4c05900&amp;showtopic=5709

And, in case you think you are the first guy smart enough to carry the drama from one board to another you are wrong.

We had a real good one a few years back with the RRT.

You are going to blow it for anybody on the VolksRodder forum who actually has something to add.

All I've seen from you on that board is posting links to good tech on the HAMB.

RASHY
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compare and contrasst...

 

Those two cars were shot right in front of the owner's driveway. He got the 331 inch hemi-powered Road Duster back in the late 60's/early 70's, and has kept it old school, resisting the temptation to "update" it with stuff like disc brakes, Boyd this and Billet that, etc etc. But you will see the explanation for the VW if you go to his website www.socalook.com . He understands that not everyone in this day and age can afford some nice Vintage Tin, and a lot of people don't care for fiberglass copies. So, he and his sons built the chop-top VW, and made a front crossmember that adapts the early Ford transverse leaf spring and hairpin setup to the VW floorpan. It's actually a well-engineered piece, too. Just like the hotrodders back in "ye olde days" that took a car that nobody else wanted, and made something out of it, he has done the same thing, just with a less-traditional piece of sheet metal..It's still 1930's technology and styling..Again, NOT trying to convert anyone, just an explanation...

 

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wow!

I geuss they are BOTH 1932 Fords after all!

the one on the left has earned it's heritage with what looks like fifty years of hot rod history.

the one on the right is a poor attempt to share that same history.

Paul

 

I'm totally against what PuppetSmurf has to offer in any of his posts, here or in his intro. Sounds like he's just trying to start***** to me. Esp if you read that VW forum link. That being said.....

VW's are just as much a hot rod as anything else. One guy here caught***** for rodding an old Jeep becuz "it wasn't a hot rod"- yea, right. In my humble opinion, there is one reason &amp; one reason only why VWs didn't get rodded like other old tin- becuz it was German. All the boys that returned home from WWII are the ones given the credit for starting the "hot rod" era. They prolly weren't real keen on modifying a car produced by the nation they had just fought. Had WWII never happened &amp; American boys got hold of Bugs back in the late '40s, I'll bet there'd have been just as many rodded VWs as there were old Model Ts. I think the Smith VW (thats the one in the pic w/ the '32) is just as much a rod as my Studebaker. As long as a VW is done in the traditional style, I'm all for it being on this site. That RPU that this thread was started over is just neat. I'd be proud to drive it.

 

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more likely because the yards were full of cars with frames and bodies more suited to the larger front motor rear drive design.

The early Fords being the more popular choice because they were so common the cost was low and their design was about as simple as it could get.

By comparison the bug must have been a rare bird, and with stacks of the domestics available for little cash the choice was obvious.

I personally don’t have anything against the little air cooled cars, I’ve owned a couple myself.

I don’t mind seeing one now and again here either, but like said before there seem to be an awful lot of them right now and the arrogance of some of the posters is not exactly worthy of welcome.

My cars are not 100% pure traditional survivors or recreations even,

but they are both real hot rods with no pretensions, no excuses and no apologies.

Paul