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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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Ohio Viper
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Viper by B&N Fiberglass - Ocean Blue metallic, mint condition.
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| Frame |
1969 VW pan shorted 14 1/2 inches
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| Engine |
1971 -1600cc stock all chrome
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| Status |
In storage the past 3 years, complete frame off restoration in 2000 with everything new or rebuilt. Only 2300 miles have been driven since restoration. - FOR SALE
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| Owner |
Bob Schaefer
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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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| Location |
Sandusky, Ohio
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| Contact |
Bob Schaefer
rwsdevel@bex.net
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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-14 on crager ss
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| Rear Tires/Wheels |
225/70R-15 on crager ss
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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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