Subaru Dune Buggy

Frankfurt: VW Buggy Up! Concept revealed

According to the manufacturer, the Buggy Up! concept vehicle is a correct range, the interior is completely waterproof, and 3584 mm long, 1,672 mm wide and 1288 mm high if it enters production, which does not seem possible now, it will definitely be a success If Volkswagen keeps its price.

Volkswagen says its buggy Up! Concept offers the feeling of driving a kart with some interesting gadgets, such as a removable iPod / iPhone Speaker Dock for easy transport.

"To ensure that everything makes sense ergonomically for the driver, engineers reduced the angle of the height adjustable steering wheel 4 degrees at an angle of 21 degrees. The result is a sense of go-kart. A sturdy handle is installed on the dashboard for the front passenger - as it once was in the Beetle - because you never know what's next on the dune, "as it is written in the same official statement VW .

Sears Rascal - the Dune Buggy Archives

So where are the rascal owners...................Just an update I've spent the last couple of weekends taking off the engine and cleaning up everything in back of the buggy ,from spraying it black, cleaning up all the amatuer wiring,  correct size battery and tiedown for the torsion box and chroming out and cleaning up the engine.   Next is a new set of wheels and seats and mybe installing my flat side panels thou I really want some bubble pods but one step at a time first time car has been this far apart in 8 years and the weather is perfect for the buggy so gotta put it back together.     I'm trying to figure out if my Manx clone is a late tail Sears or a Glitterbug or Terra maybe. Mine is a full length four seat uncut pan. The tail has a large box in center, though my air filter on single carb is a tight squeeze and sticks out a bit... too much to mount tag there. The left side of dash (just right of steering wheel) is about an inch bigger I suppose for more space for speedo. But there is not a passenger side dash molding for a radio. Hood has single ridge down center but there is no bump of any kind where a decal may have been. Molded in battery box under right rear seat, other side smooth. Outside it has flat bolt on side panels with a sort of mud flap molded in just behind the front tire. The original finish seems to be red paint on white fiberglass (no gelcoat or metal flake). Dash seems to have been glassed onto hood after molding. Ok now i'm really confused as to what kind of buggy i have. everyone keeps telling me it is a rascal, but I keep arguing with them because the rascal shown in the Buggy ID section shows the headlights mounted on the fenders,not on the small (pods for lack of a better word) on the inside of the fender. The car in that picture doesn" even have those little "pods" molded into the fenders. Then looking at the picture out of the sears catalog here all i see is a purple meyers manx. It even has the manx badge on it.No hint of the ridge in the center of the hood? Help!!! Sears has always had lawyers. That ad is from back before America got stupid. C'mon a lady sued McD's because her coffee was hot. And won. How did anyone born before 1970 survive childhood. We had no airbags, slept in the back window on long trips without seatbelts, and jumped bicycles off homemade ramps without helmets. Maybe thats why kids play video games instead of outside.

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