VW Bus road-racing

[StRacerDuke]

http://videos.streetfire.net/recentvideos/2/57f304eb-5a90-4188-a51f-98810103e543.htm

Check this out! How cool would it be to show up at your local track with this thing. It looks like he fab'ed up the suspension and drive train out of a Porsche 993 Turbo.

http://www.race-taxi.ch/

[73z-6sp]

MAN!!! That is the coolest race car (?) I have ever seen! I never dreamed a bus could go that fast! My first attempt (at age 14) at fixing up a car was a 62 VW bus that my parents drove for many years but had parked it when I was 10. We hauled wood in it for a while until I got it. I never did get to drive it but I sure had fun working on it! I have always had a soft spot for those big goofy things! Thanks for posting that video!

[StRacerDuke]

Here's another vid from the Swiss website:

http://www.race-taxi.ch/download/spa.avi

Makes me want to look for a wrecked 996 or 997...

[6'9"Witha69]

That was sweet! How would you like to be in the Audi TT, Imprezza WRX, Miata, etc. and get passed by a bus!! Too cool.

He must have some weight under the frame to give a better COG. That and a suspension from hell.

[PT_79_TA_461]

hey guys, im new to the website. i was watching a gumball 3000 episode on the net and thay showed this, a 65 VW samba with all porche drivetrain, 3 L turbo boxter engien

[73z-6sp]

Cool! That last pic...hes keeping some expensive company huh? I'd like to see video of it too. Thanks for posting that!

[ProdigyCustoms]

That movie makes me laugh! I like the other one on here somewhere when the bus passes the Porcshe

[Cometose]

Some time in the late 70's early 80's(?), a VW aftermarket shop called FAT(CA) put a Porsche 6 in a stock mid-70's VW bus.Featured in VW/Posche mag, showed it doing a wheelie and spoke of the suprised faces on trips going up mountain roads to the ski slopes,total sleeper.
Another early 80's VW/Porsche feature had another later 70's VW van some guy put a turbo Porsche in, lowered it, added flairs to cover the 16" BBS/Pirelli P7 combo. For the time it was tastefully done.
I grew up driving my parents bus and occasionally my brother's corvair powered VW camper, hard to imagine having a turbo anything in the back with suspension to match.Great vids!

[JEFFTATE]

Wow !
My first car was a '73 Super Beetle. It wouldn't do things like that.
That bus is cool !
Gotta' love those VWs.
Thanks for posting .

[TonyHuntimer]

That's funny! I bet there are some hard feelings around the track when you get beat by a VW bus. :hah:

Tony Huntimer
RaceHome.com

[justanova]

That's funny! I bet there are some hard feelings around the track when you get beat by a VW bus. :hah:

Tony Huntimer
RaceHome.com

yeah...I know if I got blasted by a VW bus I would be like:hmm:

[PT_79_TA_461]

hey guys, i found another VW porsched bus, check it out, its got ccd camras as side mirrors, the body has been shaved of all things not flat and has a nice paint job. the damn thing does 240 kph in 4th, and is up here in canada, there not all in europe. i think where gonna see more and more of these speed boxs, http://www.streetcars.nl/showthread.php?t=871

[PT_79_TA_461]

i got some links to the VW porsched buses, the first is of the one here in canada, and the 2nd is of the one i posted a little befor, now the movie of the second one is a little long, its gonna be about 15-20 mins in that your gonna be the bus, belive me its nice to see. enjoy

1.http://videos.streetfire.net/search/vw+bus/0/3cc9244e-4388-4314-9319-fae008871379.htm



2.http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-8992108345500353266&q=gumball+3000+2006

[Steve68]

I love #1, I had a bad ass bug, I'd love to build another!

[LMDGUY]

:hail: LOL