Today's dumb question

Can you autocross a VW based dune buggy/ sand rail/ whatever you want to call it?

We had one run in the Atlanta region a couple years ago. I do remember it had camber gain in the wrong direction big time. If it was lowered then it would do better, this one wasn't. Luckily it was on crappy tires so it didn't try and flip.

Had one show up to one of our autocrosses once, I don't remember what his time was like but it was fun to watch

Our hosts restored a Meyers Manx some years ago, I don't know if they ever autocrossed it but they can probably give some advice: http://classicmotorsports.net/project-cars/1967-meyers-manx/

I remember back in the early '80s there was a Meyers Manx that would autocross in Sioux Falls S.D. Very well set up with slicks and suspension. Might have been from Minnesota but it's been 30 yrs ago so...?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U12K9VByD8A

http://www.blackhawkengr.com/Deserter%20GS%20Build%20and%20Development.htm (worth looking at)

IIRC it would be EM (maybe DM)

Yeah, there is some verbage on swing axle camber compensators in the rulebook thats worth looking up.

Could be fun.

I was thinking something like this. I have seen several on the road around here and for cheap on CL.

wish something like that as road legal... I would rock one all summer as a dd

They can be road legal in Ohio, there are quite a few running around.

You just need a Z-bar on the rear to control the poor camber gain during cornering. I had one on an old Formula Vee I autocrossed years ago. 35 horsepower was actually quite entertaining in that thing.

I'd love to have one of those as a dd on the side....especially in central FL...cept when it pours like all hell with a 5 minute monsoon!

In my club,AMEC, there is a fellow with a vey old home built buggy. It now has a turbocharged type 1 engine, disp.uknown. Much horsepower. He ice races it, autocrosses it, sometimes on the street. It is fast.

They can be legal in a lot of places if you add all the lights, seatbelts, instruments (speedo) and a windshield. Plexiglass on the roll cage. Know some guys that do have these street legal, still not comfortable to drive. Meet a guy that drove one 4 hours one-way from GA to North Central AL, said it beat him up and was kinda scary when being passed or passing a big truck.

Road legal in MN, guy has one of those, plates and all, right down the road from me.

93EXCivic wrote: I was thinking something like this. I have seen several on the road around here and for cheap on CL.

If you have a VW Beetle title and put the street legal components on a Berrien frame; you can get plates for them. I too have seen them on the street. The hard part is picking up a cheap Beetle. These are the guys to get the frame from: http://www.berrienbuggy.com/

I have a sales meeting in Denver on 8/27.

I believe I could flat tow this back using my Honda Accord? Just need that tow bar sold at JC Whitney and a hitch and some tow lights from HF Tools and........

http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/3206543143.html

yes, we had one run locally. It was in A Mod, but with no other A mod cars local, he did fine and had a ton of fun.

Yeah, they have classes for "kit and custom" cars. I've been reading up on the rules for Locosts. D-mod is where mine will sit when finished. Just grab the SCCA pdf and take a look at the mod classes overview.