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!
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!
Well, with the TVR in the shop getting a cage, chassis, and headers done, I …
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!
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.
Wow I would love to get my hands on that!!!!
With frog eyes, you need frog skin IMHO.
Never saw one before, but I like it. Any inside photos?
I also vote that you keep the paint. It's perfect.
This is awesome. Lovely proportioned little sports car! +4 for keep the green paint, but hell, it's your car.
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.
Well -- it's in the paint shop now -- when it comes out, it'll be red. Porsche Guards Red to be exact :-)
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