New 1973 Scca Rally Bug! Scott Got It Subsequently It Had Been Sitting Inwards The Woods For Twenty Years, Precisely Correct Subsequently Acquiring It, Life Got Inwards The Way, It Ended Upwards Going To California As Well As Therefore To The Grunderman Museum Inwards Germany.

from his starting fourth dimension post on the Samba, dorsum inward 2008:

"I posted something along the lines of 'looking for projection VW to travel on amongst son' as well as got an interesting reply. H5N1 human being a few towns away from me had a 73 Super that used to endure a rally auto as well as wanted it out of his yard. We communicated dorsum as well as forth a few times as well as I made the trip to come across it.

The auto didn't belong to him, he used to endure a crew fellow member on the squad as well as was storing it inward his yard for the possessor who had retired to NJ as well as at i time he was looking to larn it out of his yard. Sitting nether a tree was this orangish as well as dark Super amongst OLD OLD OLD SCCA as well as Uniroyal logos on it (and this foreign crazed duck sticker too). Closer inspection showed this wasn't only an whatever onetime VW but was truly a contest car. It had rally gauges, total cage, contest seats as well as harness, etc.

The man, Bill, as well as his married adult woman Stef were wonderful as well as I truly enjoyed talking to them. They told me unopen to history most this car, how it was campaigned inward the early on 70s inward the USA as well as worldwide inward professional person rally racing amongst a crew as well as driver of VW as well as Porsche staff as well as was fifty-fifty photographed as well as discussed inward an article inward Popular Mechanics.

Since they didn't truly ain the car, they couldn't sell it to me straight but they idea the possessor would create as well as hence inexpensively as well as hence they set me inward touching on amongst him. He was a wonderful grapheme as well as spent several hours on the telephone amongst me detailing the history addition the cache of parts he had stored. He wanted it to all become every bit a bundle for most $2500, to a greater extent than than I had or was willing to pass at the fourth dimension as well as hence I had to exceed on the deal.

Yesterday (11 years later) I'm online when I come upwardly across a post for complimentary firewood amongst an e-mail address that looked familiar. I took a peril as well as shot an e-mail to them bespeak if they were perchance the same people from xi years ago, as well as if they were, whatever happened to the car. Well, if yous couldn't guess past times this point, they are the same people. The auto is nonetheless there.

The possessor passed most vi months agone as well as only this past times weekend they were talking to his widow as well as she only wanted them to larn rid of it.

He picked it upwardly for free

Bill told a few stories most running inward the Alcan amongst this auto as well as a rally inward South Africa. The auto was photographed for an article on the Alcan inward Road & Track, I believe unopen to fourth dimension inward 1992.

Bill did advert the brakes were upgraded, I looked as well as could come across disks on the front end amongst Porsche on the calipers. Under the hood (getting crumbly along the bottom edge, after releasing the condom clamps, is a custom strut bar as well as connections for the calibrated odometer. The auto has a dainty heavy front end slip plate as well as mounts for a tow bar addition difficult points for driving lights. Inside are 2 old-school (but pretty nice) racing buckets, several custom gauges (couldn't come across what they were inward the fading light, whorl cage,no dorsum seat, racing harnesses, as well as surprisingly company floors.