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B&N Fiberglass RegistryB&N Fiberglass of Springfield Ohio created several body styles during the dune buggy hay day.
For some reason unknown to us, they preferred to use the names of snakes for the buggies.
The most famous of their buggies was the Rattler. A unique detailed body kit with a classic structure but, very different in style and design.
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Rattler Registry
Rattler
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Gold metal flake...paint maroon in 1982.
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| Frame |
'67 pan
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| Engine |
'67 stock
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| Status |
My nephew has this car in Columbia Missouri. It was restored twice.
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| Front Tires/Wheels |
235 R 14 with chrome wheels
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| Rear Tires/Wheels |
265R15 with chrome wheels
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| Transaxle |
stock '67
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| Location |
Columbia Missouri
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| Contact |
scott@scottstearman.com
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| Story |
I built this car while in high school in Detroit. As a teenager I drove it to Maine and worked for the summer. Then took it to Oklahoma for college. I made several trips in this little car to Colorado and Southern Cal.
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Kentucky Rattler
| Body |
Layers of old paint, have spots of gold metal flake...
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| Frame |
1967 with new pans
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| Engine |
1971 1600 AE dual port, Weber carb,
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| Status |
Ugly, in process of restoring. Plans at this time is to stretch body to standard wheelbase and paint like Scooby Doo's Mystery Machine. My 9 y/o son's idea.
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| Owner |
Chuck and "Trey" Davis
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| Front Tires/Wheels |
Old...still trying to choose the right rims
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| Rear Tires/Wheels |
Old...still trying to choose the right rims
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| Transaxle |
Stock 1967
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| Location |
Prestonsburg, Kentucky
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| Contact |
majdavis226@hotmail.com
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| Story |
I've owned VWs on and off my whole life. Stock beetles, a couple of rail buggies. I always wanted to build a dune buggy, one day while at Advance Auto Parts an employee told me about one he saw for sale. I bought it that afternoon, it's cracked, faded, been cut on, and been repainted numerous times. It had all the signs of an orginal 60's buggy: 1964 Mustang tail lights, Dodge charger gas cap, metal flake base. Thanks to Dune Buggy.com I was able to ID it, " Thanks Guys". I bought a 1967 Baja Bug that has seen it's better days, rusted out, beat up and ugly. It had an valid title, good running. So after buying alot of manuals, countless hours on internet, and now knowing the UPS man by his first name it's taking shape. 67 pan looks new and after installing the new brake lines, it'll be time to tackle the body, more "How to books" this time on fiberglass repair, more UPS visits and telling my wife she'll have her carport, porch, and spare bedroom back soon, the body and pan will be united. I've made mistakes, got mad, but would do it again in a heartbeat.
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Rattler
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Green metel flake, now yellow paint
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| Frame |
68 beatle
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| Engine |
1600 dual port from a 72 suber beatle
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| Status |
Weekend driver
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| Owner |
Jim Guinnip
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| Front Tires/Wheels |
15x7 keystone classics
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| Rear Tires/Wheels |
15x10 keystone clasics
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| Transaxle |
68 IRS
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| Location |
Elmira NY
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| Contact |
budley2@hotmail.com
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| Story |
Found dead in a junk yard in Buffalo NY
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deadhead rattler
| Body |
Was a gold flake but now is silver
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| Frame |
65 beetle
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| Engine |
1600 dp for the time being...
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| Status |
nearly done ....
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| Transaxle |
old swing ...
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| Location |
Middletown Ohio
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| Story |
Bought it 7 years ago from a guy who owned a storage place. It was defaulted along with a 69 bug. Just started working on it in the last year or so. Hope to drive it soon.
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CARLISLE
RATTLER
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ORIGINAL GREEN GEL COAT WITH NATURAL PATINA PERIOD CORRECT FORD GALAXY TAIL LIGHTS ORIGNAL CHROME ROLL BAR BUMPERS WINDSHIELD SKID PLATE FIBER GLASS SEATS DASH COMPONENTS
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| Frame |
1960 RESTORED PAINTED CHARCOAL METALLIC COMPONENTS DETAILED IN MATT NICKLE VERY DETAILED AND POLISHED TO SHINE
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| Engine |
1970 SINGLE PORT 1600 STOCK
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| Status |
CRUISE SHOWS FUN AT THE BEACH
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| Front Tires/Wheels |
GOODYEAR EAGLE P/195 ON AMERICAN RACING CHROME 15X6 RALLY'S
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| Rear Tires/Wheels |
GOODYEAR EAGLE P/295 ON AMERICAN RACING CHROME 15X10 RALLY'S
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| Transaxle |
1965 STOCK
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| Location |
STOWE PA SOMETIMES REHOBETH BEACH DE
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| Contact |
DUNERODDER@AOL.COM
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| Story |
BOUGHT BACK IN 2001 AS A DRIVER , RESTORED IN 2002 GREAT EFFORT WAS MADE TO STAY PERIOD CORRECT WITH ACCESSORIES HAS DONE QUITE WELL AT THE LOCAL VW SHOWS
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| Clubs |
MANX CLUB
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| Previous Owner |
SOME WHERE IN LEHIGHTON PA ONLY WISH I COULD HAVE BOUGHT IT FROM THE GUY BEFORE HIM, WHO BUILT AND GARAGED IT SINCE 1967
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niterambler rattler !
| Body |
not sure of year, needs a new paint job. but ok for now
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| Frame |
its a 1968 vw buggy shortened about 15in i think.
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| Engine |
got me a 1600 dual port in it. just chromed out the whole thing just about
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| Status |
weekend driver. but getting ready to pull the motor to put a nice new rebuilt trans in it. If i dont sell the buggy
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| Owner |
fred yarosz live in nj nevernasty@embarqmail.com give me a e mail
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| Front Tires/Wheels |
think they are american raceing rims with 14in 70s on the front
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| Rear Tires/Wheels |
american raceing rims with 15in 50s
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| Link |
e mail nevernasty@embarqmail.com
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| Transaxle |
4 speed vw not sure yet
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| Location |
sussex county nj
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| Contact |
nevernasty@embarqmail.com
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| Story |
i sold 3 buggies that i had before and wanted a another one after years went bye. i see this on e bay in ohio and like the body sytle. drove down and bought her!!
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| Clubs |
none yet looking
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Rattler
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B&N Rattler
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| Frame |
62 VW
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| Engine |
1966 VW 1300
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| Status |
Driving & loving it
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| Owner |
Tim Hamm
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| Link |
http://s1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb426/Hamm62/?action=view¤t=62VW-9.jpg
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| Location |
Aubrey, Texas
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| Contact |
thehamms@cebridge.net
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| Story |
I just purchased this buggy 10/16/10. Still learning about it, I do know it had a ground up restoration in 2007 & I have a cd of 180 pics to document. The mechanical is very good, but the paint is not! I plan on painting this winter and would like to add a snap on top soon after.
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Tarantula Registry
B&N Tarantula
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| Body |
B&N Tarantula shot in metalflake red and metalflake gunmetal grey striped
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| Frame |
Shortened VW with 3/16 steel plate welded in as floor and poured with roofing tar
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| Engine |
VW 40Hp with dual webbers
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| Status |
Unknown alst seen 1988 in San Diego
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| Owner |
I am the former owner who did a temp trade with a friend who sold her (sniff) before I had a chance to buy her back
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| Transaxle |
Swing Axle
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| Location |
Last known California
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| Contact |
miltuna@gmail.com
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| Story |
I bought her for $750 running with a slippery clutch in 1974 in South Carolina...my first car purchase. Drove her through college and met some nice ? girls as a result. Later tore her down and rebuilt her doing an extensive stripe job using multiple masks to shoot metalflake red and then fine flake gunmetal grey for the stripes... hours and hours.Clear coated the whole thing with about 14 layers of clear acrylic and a couple of years later had some blisters form on the forward fender fronts. Sandblasted the pan welded in plate in place of the rusted floor pans...then had a layer of roofing tar poured into the pans to seal everything watertight. Ultimately she ended up being a bit heavy...better for street...offroad not so much. I welded reinforcements on many suspension parts and created tranny straps.
I went into this project knowing very little and learned a lot. Should have done more with the engine but she was strong and pretty being well chromed out. I had a book 'Building Your VW Based Dune Buggy' and kept Bug Pack in business for a few years.
Details: Put in dual independent hand brakes for spin arounds. Glassed in the area under the sides to collect less mud under the arm rest area. Never did get away from the original 6v system so a did lot of push starts over the years (dum dum dum dum dum).
Later I moved her to AZ then to CA where I went sailing and temp traded her to a friend who sold her. Lost track afterwards.
I just found what I am convinced to be her ID as the B&N 'Tarantula' from the rear deck over the engine and rear fender curves and height/width. The two hood bumps would confirm better but they aren't visible in the archive B&Ws. All the visible body shapes match up with my former baby.
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| Previous Owner |
Milton Sanders, Kurt Vrosh
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CinCity Tarantula
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Soon to be a long body. Original blue metalflake, then black then purple then oversprayed with primer and some sand textured yellow...all will be sanded down to blue gel coat. There are Bondo plugs an inch thick filling up the hole where the gas filler tube penetrated the center of the hood. Some nice work by the previous owner(s).
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| Frame |
69 Karmann-Ghia, Needs a custom floor pan and 3 inch lift to clear the brake lines and IRS suspension
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| Engine |
1600 Dual Port
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| Status |
Just beginning this project
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| Owner |
Moon Dawg
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| Front Tires/Wheels |
Stock rollers
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| Rear Tires/Wheels |
Stock rollers
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| Location |
Cincinnati, OH
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| Contact |
gscurtis@yahoo
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| Story |
Taken in trade at a body shop in Lexington KY, Then put up for sale on eBay...Looks like it had a full life and needs some work to get it back into shape.
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| Previous Owner |
Unknown
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Tarantula
Viper RegistryAnother of the bodies B&N made was called the Viper. The Viper at first glance was very manx like. There were two raised long features in the hood. Like 3D stripes I guess. Very distinct, no other body copied these hood details. The other very distinct and individual treatment was the headlight mounting, or really the lack there of. This body is the only one I know of that used standard round buckets with sealed beam but, made a semi circular recess to mount them low into the hood. No pedestals for the chrome buckets to stand on. The tail was a semi standard mild flip, with a license box raised. I am not sure if there were indentions around the lights or not. Our photos are not that clear. The only documentation from B&N is a photo copy of a mimeographed single sheet with a front view of the buggy body, circa 1969.
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| Body |
Viper body, nice condition
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| Frame |
complete tube chassis
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| Engine |
1776, dual port, pic 34 tri-mill exhaust
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| Status |
currently stored for winter, in good running condition, and a blast to drive.
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| Owner |
Darren and LeAnn Blair
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| Front Tires/Wheels |
7.00x15's on centerlines
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| Rear Tires/Wheels |
31x10.50x15's on centerlines
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| Transaxle |
stock swing
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| Location |
Spokane,WA
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| Contact |
roddin49@comcast.net
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west virginia viper
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Viper by B&N Fiberglass orange pearl
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| Frame |
1970 VW, SHORTENED 14 1/2 INCHES
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| Engine |
1974 1600 DUAL PORT, STOCK ALL CHROMED
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| Status |
JUST FINISHED RESTORATION APRIL 2008, WORKED ON IT FOR 18 MONTHS
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| Owner |
JEFF JOHNSON
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| Front Tires/Wheels |
P215/60R14
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| Rear Tires/Wheels |
P295/50R15
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| Transaxle |
4 SPEED, REVERSE DOESNT WORK
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| Location |
PETERSTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA
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| Contact |
whitetoy_01@hotmail.com
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Chillicothe ohio viper
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viper
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| Frame |
1966 pan shorten 14 1/2"
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| Engine |
1641
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| Owner |
Patrick Riley
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| Front Tires/Wheels |
195/70R-15 on chrome wide 5
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| Rear Tires/Wheels |
225/70R-15 on chrome wide 5
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| Transaxle |
stock 66
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| Location |
Chillicothe Ohio
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| Contact |
goodguy925905@yahoo.com
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| Story |
my father bilt it in 68&69 he sold it in 71 and it had many owners. then i found it in 2006 and but it back on the road.
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Mountain Viper
| Body |
B & N Viper body in excellent condition. New paint all over.
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| Frame |
1963 beetle swing axle of course shortened the usual 14.5 inches.
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| Engine |
Original engine torn down and found to be a excellent condition 40 horse case with 85.5mm pistons. Case has been machined for 94mm, reassembled with a 74 mm crank, 5.4" h beam rods, cb performance Los panchitos heads, kadron dual carbs, full flowed, VZ15 camshaft, new lifters, CSP pressure relief pump cover, eliminated stock relief valve, remote filter screen, remote oil cooler and fan assembly with thermostat control.
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| Status |
Restoration completed. Removed the body from the pan and formed a game plan on the sequence and procedures to restore. Repaired body damage. Replaced pans and restored remaining chassis with new bushings, seals etc. New disc brakes on all wheels. All new instrumentation (except speedometer) and wiring. Every last part of this buggy was taken apart, cleaned, restored and painted or replaced. New front seats and seat belts. Fabricated a front roll over structure tied to the rear.
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| Owner |
Wayne Clagg
Milton, Wv
rclaggf4u@yahoo.com
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| Front Tires/Wheels |
14" ET Mag slotted mags, couldn't get the pits and corrosion out so I sand blasted them and painted them the same color as the body. New Mastercraft 225/60 all season radials.
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| Rear Tires/Wheels |
15" ET mag slotted mags, same as the front, painted. Mastercraft 255/60 radials.
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| Transaxle |
1963 swingaxle gone through and reassembled with new gaskets, seals, beef a diff, aluminum side cover. Original 4.37 ring gear and gear ratio's were retained for maximum performance on country roads, hills and red light to red light.
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| Location |
Milton, West Virginia
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| Contact |
rclaggf4u@yahoo.com
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| Story |
My family owned this buggy in the middle 70's. It was sold to a friend of the family, actually my bus driver. He kept it for sometime then sold it to a fellow driver. This owner put a top on it and drove all over like a daily driver. I kept track of it's location then one day it disappeared. Approx. 15 years later I was talking to the guy we sold it to and he told me the second owner still had it. I expressed disbelief but he said the guys daughter had moved it away but he had retaken possession of it, that's why it had disappeared suddenly. I sent word that I was VERY interested in it if he ever sold it fully expecting that I would never see it. A few months later he walked in my office and asked me to make an offer on it.......and now it's in my garage undergoing restoration!!! I just can't beleive it! The man asked I not disclose what I paid for it and I will respect his wishes, but I will say there were three digits in the price with the decimal point in the usual place.
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| Previous Owner |
undisclosed
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Ohio Viper
| Body |
Viper by B&N Fiberglass - Ocean Blue metallic, mint condition.
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| Frame |
1969 VW pan shortened 14 1/2 inches
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| Engine |
1971 -1600cc stock all chrome
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| Front Tires/Wheels |
26 x 8.50 - 15 LT Mickey Thompson Sportsman's on Centerline rims with spinners
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| Rear Tires/Wheels |
29 x 12.50 - 15 LT Mickey Thompson Sportsman's on Centerline rims with spinners
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| Transaxle |
IRS Swing axle
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