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carbaholic
May 25th, 2007, 08:09
I'm new to the forum and new to baja, but my car's been around for a while. Here's a picture of my car in its glory days:
http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/352898.jpg

Here it is as it stands today:
http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/303341.jpg
As you can see it's not quite what it used to be, but I like it.

I'm a poor college stodent who's addicted to racing, and I can only afford to own one car. Here it is. I plan to get it one some wheels with some power behind it soon. It'll probably be very funny looking since all I can afford at the moment are stock parts. Then I'll do homegrown upgrades and buy parts as I get time and money.

Right now I'm off in China studying Chinese, so I can't actually work on it for another month. But, out here in China I have a lot of free time, so I spend a lot of planning the build.

You can see my plan here. (http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pT_U7CTEGkaROdtfS3a9aQA)

That's all the progress I've made so far. I'll post pictures as soon as I start building, until then look for me in the tech areas and take a look at my spreadsheet if you want to see my progress.

Carbo

Michael Pee
May 26th, 2007, 16:48
It looks like a very nice start!

mrmatt
June 8th, 2007, 15:06
Best of luck to ya! HOpe to see you at the races soon.

Mr. Matt

Sparky
June 9th, 2007, 09:11
Looks close to the same thing I am starting with on my Class 10 build. I remember seeing pictures of that car a long, long, long time ago. Very cool!