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1977 Other Puma GTE
Added on Aug. 28 by orphancars

Puma is a Brazilian sports car. Don’t know what happened, but one day I woke up and decided I wanted, no, needed an aircooled car. After getting discouraged by the high prices of pre-57 beetles with more rust than I wanted to deal with, I added the Puma as the third car in the Orphancar garage. It is all VW underneath — modified Brasilia pan, Ghia front brakes, and currently a 1776 out back.

Plans for the Puma are to get rid of the 70’s era Kermit the Frog green paint, replace the swing axle suspension with bits from a Porsche 944, Fuchs wheels , and a 2110 or larger motor……maybe swap in a Type IV if I can find one already built!

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Tim Baxter:: Personally, I would HAVE to keep the 70s green paint, and I would probably keep those wheels, too. Fuchs are nice, but those look pretty right, too. Cool car!
Aug 28, 2009 9:53 a.m.
orphancars:: Thanks Tim! What you can't quite see in the pics are the dark blue hood and roof. That makes the car look a little odd. It did give me the idea of painting the car black roof/red sides though. Aw hell, the missus actually came up with the color scheme :-) Actually I do think of keeping the wheels sometimes — would just have to redrill the 944 hubs with the right bolt pattern (4 lug instead of 5.
Aug 28, 2009 9:58 a.m.
Volksrodden:: Wow I would love to get my hands on that!!!!
Aug 28, 2009 5:02 p.m.
pinchvalve:: With frog eyes, you need frog skin IMHO.
Aug 31, 2009 7:05 p.m.
Woody:: Never saw one before, but I like it. Any inside photos?
Sep 17, 2009 8:06 p.m.
David S. Wallens:: I also vote that you keep the paint. It's perfect.
Oct 17, 2009 3:10 p.m.
Luke:: This is awesome. Lovely proportioned little sports car! +4 for keep the green paint, but hell, it's your car.
Nov 10, 2009 2:01 a.m.
Treb:: Keep the paint. It looks great — plus it's got the whole brazillian-flag thing going. I'm trying to figure out how to add white/yellow accents… White roundels, yellow numbers outlined in black? Cool car.
Nov 26, 2009 8:40 a.m.