A rare find!

[healeyboz]

A rare find in deed!! 1968 Bugeye. Wow, I bet this is the only one every made in 68.
I wonder why there is no title?
https://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1968-AUST...sspagenameZWDVW

 

[aeronca65t]

Yeah...it's got the rare, Bugeye "high back" seat option too! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif

 

[racingenglishcars]

That's cause they came that way in 68. I see they taped off the side lights too.

 

[healeyboz]

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[AngliaGT]

I think Doc needs to buy that.It's in his neck of the woods.

- Doug

 

[Branson]

heh. I thought my '65 was one of the last bugeye's /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thirsty.gif

 

[healeyboz]

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[blkcorvair]

That's cause they came that way in 68. I see they taped off the side lights too.

Isn't that what all the vintage racers are doing... aerodynamics! Take off the grill to allow for more air, bolt on a long chrome ballast and add high back seats to prevent whiplash. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif

 

[bugimike]

You guys laugh, but you know what, whatever the year, that does look to be a fair example of a real BE, mis-identified as a 68, with nasty seats added, the wrong tach, etc. but that is not just a BE hood on a newer car, that looks like a pretty complete, original 948 to me!! (humm, I have a title /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cowboy.gif !!) Doc. It's right in your 'hood! You should check that out! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

 

[racingenglishcars]

Yeah, also with original replacement flat-metal floors and repair patches on the rear bulkhead
It'll need a complete rust rebuild. But the bonnet and other sheet metal are ok.
Certainly worth putting together again (like mine) /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

 

[DrEntropy]

I'd need to be 25 yers younger and dumber to go after that poor thing. It likely can be brought back from the dead but not by me. I still have the "Super Spridget" to pull back from the precipice.

 

[racingenglishcars]

Exactly the point. Mine's only going back together for sentemental reasons. (I've had it since I was 13) Otherwise it would be a lot easier to buy one in better condition.
But, they aren't making too many new ones, and certainly not for the price of rebuilding a reasonable example.