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Post by Chris K. Hale on Apr 12, 2018 5:49:20 GMT -8
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Post by Chris K. Hale on Apr 12, 2018 5:51:42 GMT -8
April Fools from Sports Car Digest!!....
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Post by checkeredflagdetails on Apr 12, 2018 8:54:28 GMT -8
Ha, Ha, Ha, love it!!   Next thing you'll tell me there was a 6 wheel Indy car!  oh wait.......... P.S. love the dune buggy |
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Post by Chris K. Hale on Apr 12, 2018 12:11:43 GMT -8
Yeah I was thinking the Dune Buggy might make a interesting project.. maybe install a twin turbo V6 or Corvair 6 midships... really there are a lot of open ideas to do that one.. and you have a pic to prove it ran.. well at least make a few people wonder!! Lol.. Chris
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Post by dustymojave on Apr 16, 2018 18:52:48 GMT -8
That buggy WAS a Deserter GS by Autodynamics. Mid engine Corvair on a tube frame. I believe it had Weber carbs, but was not turboed. Autodynamics built a lot of Formula Vees and even a couple of Can am cars. But even though the Deserter GS was a pretty good performing car in slaloms and other pavement sports car adventures, racing Daytona in the Prototype class was a bit above it's class.
The body was originally the "Bounty Hunter", for VW Bug chassis, like a Meyers' Manx. The Bounty Hunter was designed and manufactured by a friend and neighbor of my cousin in Burbank California. Brian started out repairing surf boards and worked his way up to quite a fiberglass business. He even made molds to make a Lola T70 Coupe body about 1970. Autodynamics had bought the molds to the Bounty Hunter by about 1969, and re-named it the Deserter, then developed the mid-engine Corvair power GS chassis for it.
Definitely an interesting photo.
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Post by Oldtimer on Apr 17, 2018 4:57:01 GMT -8
That buggy WAS a Deserter GS by Autodynamics. Mid engine Corvair on a tube frame. I believe it had Weber carbs, but was not turboed. Autodynamics built a lot of Formula Vees and even a couple of Can am cars. But even though the Deserter GS was a pretty good performing car in slaloms and other pavement sports car adventures, racing Daytona in the Prototype class was a bit above it's class. The body was originally the "Bounty Hunter", for VW Bug chassis, like a Meyers' Manx. The Bounty Hunter was designed and manufactured by a friend and neighbor of my cousin in Burbank California. Brian started out repairing surf boards and worked his way up to quite a fiberglass business. He even made molds to make a Lola T70 Coupe body about 1970. Autodynamics had bought the molds to the Bounty Hunter by about 1969, and re-named it the Deserter, then developed the mid-engine Corvair power GS chassis for it. Definitely an interesting photo. If you look through my videos posted elsewhere, you can see a dune buggy racing at Green Valley Raceway in 1967. |
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Attached are the pics of a Prototype 6 wheel 917, Its appears to be Daytona? but the story says the Dune buggy/race car took out the 917? What The F&%&#....Chris
