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  • 01-03-2009 11:00pm
    #1
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭


    according to the ad, this "beauty" actually was road legal at some stage, apparantly it's a "labour of love" of a panelbeater *cough*

    Anyway ...what bits have gone into it? (PS: I don't know all of it either)

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  • #2
    CharlieCroker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,451 ✭✭✭CharlieCroker


    Looks like a Skoda underneath. a Rapide, maybe? one of the rear engined ones anyway from the early 80's


  • #3
    2cv
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭2cv


    i recognised the VW badge...
    what do i win?:D:D:D


  • #4
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Good god...Is the original car a manta?

    is it an early chop shop!lol!

    Looking again,is it built on a VW beetle chassis i wonder


  • #5
    Whosbetter?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭Whosbetter?


    Looks like a rear engined Skoda.
    Are those Mk1b Capri rear lights?


  • #6
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Nope, not a Skoda, that VW badge is genuine, that much I know

    Although some parts look like they might have come from a Skoda


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  • #7
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Must be a beetle or a ghia 'pan,any interior shots?


  • #8
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    All I know for sure is that this is the base:

    pic6.jpg

    VW 412

    The rest smacks a lot of Opel Manta and a little of Skoda something or other ...in my opinion, anyway


  • #9
    Abelloid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Abelloid


    I recognise the wheels, head lamps and maybe a Type4 motor as all VW but not the body...


  • #10
    Abelloid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Abelloid


    peasant wrote: »
    All I know for sure is that this is the base:

    pic6.jpg

    VW 412

    The rest smacks a lot of Opel Manta and a little of Skoda something or other ...in my opinion, anyway

    I'm sure I know who owns that. :D


  • #11
    DaveCol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭DaveCol


    GT badges on the rear pillars are BMC ones


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  • #12
    Whosbetter?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭Whosbetter?


    DaveCol wrote: »
    GT badges on the rear pillars are BMC ones

    Yer dead right! They were on the Austin 1300s.
    Had been thinkin they were Capri badges...


  • #13
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    pic6.jpg
    Thats a million times better looking,and 2 door too...is that a rare body style?


  • #14
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    well if you took the "body kit" bits off and imoprived the paint scheme, it would nt look so bad as it does now....


  • #15
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    carchaeologist wrote: »
    Thats a million times better looking,and 2 door too...is that a rare body style?

    That's a rare car in any style. They sold very few of them and those that did sell saw their second hand value plummet to nothing, so very few got the attention they needed and they were just let to rot.

    The 411 / 412 series nearly killed VW. Too expensive with antiquated technology. Only for buying NSU/Audi and pilfering their FWD/watercooled technology they wouldn't have made it past the 70's.


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