As I am unable to find out the actual name of this body I have
decided that since the finished car is composed of a
Manx style body, a Volkswagen chassis and a T4 Porsche engine
it would be called
PHOENEX
Manx/Porsche/Volkswagen
Phoenix was the Greek name for the mythological bird that was sacred
to the sun-god in ancient Egypt. The phoenix lived in Arabia (read
lots of sand) and had a 500-year life span. At the end of that period the
bird built its own funeral pyre, on which it was consumed to ashes (what
I am starting with). Out of the ashes a new phoenix arose.
Last summer I found an old Manx clone body and it was too good a deal
to pass up
so home it came with no real plans to do anything with it. After seeing
this Hustler
in James Hale's Dunebuggy
Handbook I started to come up with some ideas
as to what mine would become.
I have reversed the image as it is a right hand drive car from England
I have also removed the Manx type headlights to get the idea of
what my front end might look like.
This is what I had to start with. Just this beat up, abused, body.
No chassis, nothing.
xxxxx These interior shots show the mess of my other
pride and joy. All wiring had to go as did the steering column,
dash and all the gauges.
The picture on the left shows the body on top
of an old bush buggy chassis {2 steering wheels}
xxxxx On the left we have the telltale sign that it
is not a true Manx. The "license plate holder" goes out too far.
From the front one cannot tell that it is not
the real thing.
danmac@bigfoot.com
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