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Since my first Auto X-Prize build attempt was to use composite tubing for the frame, I did not go the VW pan route, even though I had a dead Baja at the time. Now I am going to try to build a car which will mate to the VW pan, and then lighten it once the "Bugs" are worked out. A streamlined body kit which adapts to a VW pan would be a good "Thing" I think.

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Here is the start of my thread on the car I "Wanted to build" for the Auto X-Prize competition several years ago, but was thwarted by lack of funding, and having to move. Since coming back to Ecomodder a while back, I am hooked again, and with my commenting on others conversations usually leading to my talking about MY project, I will take others advice and start my own thread. So here goes...

A little background,

My car idea just sprang from nothing, as I made a clay model of what I thought an Aero car should look like, and then set the lawn chairs on the floor of the shop. That lead to the Drafting board (no CAD then) and scale drawings. My head filled with ideas about everything; power train, composite frame structure, using the ICE waste heat to power an alternator. Everything on the car was new and untried, plus having to make a business plan and find production facilities with the ability to build hundreds of cars per year as required for the X-Prize. I was well on my way, but could not find funding and I lost access to the shop I had, so it didn't work out.

Today...After being in many different conversations here I have decide to try a different course, start my car based on an existing design, a VW Type 1 Beetle, and modify it to get to where I wish to be. I am going to use 1/24th scale models of a New Beetle rear body section for the front of my car, as it almost exactly fits the Template, and adapt that to the Type 1 Pan.

To be continued....