Dollar Gasser

[41chevy]

We used to run these at Islip Speedway and at NY National Speedway in the early 70's as a throw away gasser. Usually pick up a old bug for a few hundred, sell the bumpers and engine and get most or all of the cost back. Adjust the front torsion bars for altitude,Aluminum 4 gallon boat tank, flip the cluster over in the transaxle, add a Corvair and engine adapter, and a rear tire and wheel change and run I/gas. Break the transaxle, no problem, strip out the "race" parts, sell the shell to the dune buggy crowd and start over. Back in the day this set up would win all day long and would tie up maybe $500 in the car.

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[another rick]

Really cool build. I love Bug racers, they have that mad bumblebee sound when they go ripping down the strip. VW's used to be cheap to buy and to build, now like everything else they are way over priced. Anyway, I really like this one.

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I seen one at the track one weekend and it had a rotary engine in it and was turning 10's which at the time was remarkable, I thinkit was around 1970 or so.

As far as bugs, I owned a 1960 that got 30mpg which as a high school student, was great, fill an empty tank up for about $3.50 which I made my buddies pay for half of it.

[41chevy]

I had a '71 Type III, my pop and I stuffed in a Porsche 911E engine and transaxle in it. Used to challenge any V-8 Muscle with it in 1976 usually for a $100.00 Lost once to a Motion V8 Vega. Got some pics of it some where. A side from the flared rear wheel openings and the 15x8 Chevy Rally rear wheels it looked pretty normal.