11-24-2018, 04:41 PM
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11-26-2018, 08:34 PM
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12-24-2018, 09:06 PM
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12-25-2018, 06:19 PM
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Yesterday while walking the dog, I saw a 4WD sand-rail with a VW EA827 engine mounted at the rear. Well, now that idea of (re)building a Beetle on solid axles doesn't seem so pointless at all...
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12-26-2018, 11:24 AM
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You could take the powertrain from a 4wd waterboxer westie but I'm not sure why.
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12-27-2018, 06:20 PM
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12-27-2018, 08:26 PM
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Provenance? It looks like a Brazilian roof on a German body. Maybe [copy]cRiPpLe_rOoStEr[paste] will chime in.
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01-05-2019, 03:37 AM
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You could take the powertrain from a 4wd waterboxer westie but I'm not sure why.
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It's nearly unobtainium here. Maybe a Subaru 5-speed transmission could be reverted in order to provide the same effect anyway...
https://engineeringworkarounds.blogs...ail-buggy.html
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01-07-2019, 09:56 PM
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VW powered Giletti leopard 8X8
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01-07-2019, 10:44 PM
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https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifi...php?id=2242157
In case, you know, anyone wants to buy it!
Nowadays one of those would have four close-coupled big flotation tires like the Sherpa 4x4 or/else tracks like the Ripsaw tracked vehicle.
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