Thread: VW rat rods? whats up?

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Here's a picture of our 63 VW with a ford straight axle in it.

Sorry about the size, not sure how to make it smaller!

Originally Posted by special-k

Sorry about the size, not sure how to make it smaller!

Assuming you use Windows you can use Microsoft Paint, it's a standard accessory program.

Open Paint
Click file, choose open, double click the picture you want to resize.
Click Image, choose Resize, then reduce by percentage, save.

Not sure if this would qualify as a rat rod but it sur is one chopped up VW.

your right, once you have owned a souped up bug it is hard to get away from. Which brings me to my next comment. See what you think. A front engined air cooled 31 Ford Five Window Coupe, using a 3444cc air cooled vw engine mated to a chevy tranny. The car would run on E85 or Methanol so I dont have to run cooling tin, also it would be turbo charged. This is a project I've been kicking around in my head for some time now, funds aren't there to start on car yet. Tell me what you think, good or bad, I can take it. By the way this engine will be capable of well over 500hp, and street driven!

This is what I built back in the eighties down here in Florida. It was a fun car and hopefully somebody has seen her. Locating her is more difficult than I thought.

Originally Posted by drec

I have to agree with you. What's really cool is that these cars give some of the younger guys a chance to build something nice and fairly inexpensive to boot.

New around here....

I totally agree.

I like the VolksRod for this reason.

They're cheap and fun.

Granted, I would much rather have a chopped fenderless 5 window Ford, but I haven't embraced the fiberglass body option nor do I have the deep pockets to afford a steel body...not yet. But I still hope to discover an old '32 body someday!

BTW: common misnomer - Hilter did not invent the bug. Porsche did in 1931, long before Hilter "asked" him to make a car for the German people. Hilter approached Porsche in 1934 concerning a car project (as a German business owner, it wasn't wise to say no to Hitler) Porsche offered the Kafer or "KdFWagen" as Hilter renamed it.

Following the War, Porsche served 2 years in a French prison for not saying no.

* Funny side note: In 1948, Henry Ford considered buying VW for $5 million but then retracted his offer after saying no one would buy the funny little car...(The Beetle would easily go on to out sell the Ford Model T.)

Just built a VW with a 2.2 ecotec power king coils and the offroad works

wouldn't mind a VW rat with the ecotec motor.

After some reconfiguring, my 2.1L turbo engine is just about reinstalled in my 64 notchback and my 2.3L carb'd engine is almost ready for fuel in my topless, mid-engine 64 notchback.



Finally