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Body
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Classic
The body and hood are two seperate fiberglass parts bolted together. The dash may or may not be bonded to the hood.
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Non-Fiberglass
Some of the earliest body kits and designs were built from steel or wood instead of fiberglass.
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One Piece
This style of dune buggy has a molded hood, dash, and body all formed as one complete part. Nothing seperates the hood from the fenders. These buggies were nornally cheaper to produce because the molds were less complicated.
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T-Buggy
T-Buggies resemble the front of an old Model T Ford. They often have running boards. The seats and peddles may be moved from the stock Beetle location.
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Towd
The Towd body style resembles the original Meyers Towd design having no covering over the engine and a very minimal hood.
Dash
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ABS Plastic
A light weight molded plastic with an immitation style leather finish and always molded in black.
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Joined to the Hood
The dash was molded as a separate piece and joined to the hood. There is a seam under the windshield.
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Molded with hood
The dash and hood are molded as one piece of fiberglass
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Steel Support
If you look behind the dash, it may have a steel frame behind it that supports the dash and windshield.
Fender
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Clamshell
These fenders look like a claim shell pointing up - its rounded with a sharp ridge running along the top - Corvette style.
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Doors
It has working doors.
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Flat
If you can set a beverage on the fender and not worry about it falling off, the fenders are flat.
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Headlight Buckets in Fender
The fender has buckets built in for headlights
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No Fenders
The buggy does not have fenders - leaving the front wheels fully exposed.
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Round Fender
The front fender is round, but not to be confused with a clam shell fender which is also round but has a ridge on the top.
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Running Boards
The fender slopes down low into running boards along the side of the buggy.
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Square
Similar to flat with sharp angles, but there is no surface parallel with the ground.
Hood
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Bump
A hood with a bump for an emblem. These come in many different shapes. They are typically the small logo places that were molded into a dune buggy hood for the maker to place a small sticker or badge on.
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Headlight Buckets in Hood
A hood with buckets molded in for built-in headlights. If the buckets are over the wheels and not in the hood, they you have "Headlight Buckets Fender" instead.
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Model T
A Model T hood resembles the hoods of an old Model T Ford. It typically is shaped like a radiator.
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Recess
A hood with a recess for a manufacturer's emblem.
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Ridge
This hood has one or more raised ridges that run from the front of the hood to the windshield. It may vary in width from a sharp edge up to a couple inches in width.
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Scallop
A scalloped hood has a recessed portion running from front to back - the opposite of a ridge.
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Scoop
This hood has one or more wide raised (or recessed) areas not the full length of the hood.
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Smooth
This hood is smooth on top - no ridges, scoops, bumps, headlight buckets or recesses.
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V-Scoop
Similar to a scoop, but looks like a V from the front
Tail
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Box
A box tail is characterized by a simple box on the back that could be rectangular or trapziodal in shape in the middle of the tail.
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Built in Taillights
The tail has molded in areas to hold specific tail lights.
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Chopped
The fenders swoop back toward the rear of the buggy, but then it looks like someone took a clever to the rear section - chopped off. Resembles some of the older Ferrari tails
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Double Box
Not only is there a box out the back to cover the engine, but another box extends out of the first box - yes, a double box.
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Flat
The rear is basically flat, sloping downward at an angle. No box over the engine.
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FlipUp
Has a small spoiler on the top edge.
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Hatchback
An enclosed tail resembling a modern hatch back. The tail section opens upward for storage.
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Lid
A flip up lid over the engine area.
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No Tail
There really is no tail leaving the engine hanging out in the open.
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Pickup
A rear storage area resembling a pick-up truck. Possibly with a tail gate.
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Ridgeline
The fenders peak up into a pair of ridges on eitther side of the tail.
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Round
The rear area is rounded with no other distictive features
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Squared off License Plate
The tail swoops back to a section the size of a US where its then squared off.
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Wing
A large wing molded into the tail.
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