Sand Tiger

I got my buggy in 1983 and it needed to be rewired, new floor pans and a few other things to be fixed. I had it rewired and ran it 1 time (unregistered) on the road to check it out. But I was 17 at the time and started working part time and in high school, it sat in the back yard with a tarp on it. Well time passed (very fast I might say) and I went back to work on it. When I took the tarp off I was amazed as to what had happened. The seats were on the ground and the floor was a pile of rust! It was sitting for about 4 years. SO…. I went on the hunt for another bug for the chassis. I got a 68 bug for $100 bucks and stripped it down to the bare chassis, removed the buggy body and put it on the new chassis, to my surprise it didn’t fit… the chassis was longer then the body. So I rolled the old chassis next to the new one and found out the hard way that buggy’s are shorter. At this point I was aggravated to the point I rolled the new chassis with the buggy body on it back to its resting spot and put the tarp back on it, stripped the old chassis of anything I could use and then had it towed to the junk yard. Years later… I got married and moved out but the buggy was left behind. My dad was cleaning the yard and told me to come get it. Again…. Took the tarp off to find I had a Flinstone mobile again! And the body was warped, dull and pitted. It then sat in my back yard for 9 years till I got “THE ITCH” and started working on it again.

I’ve done more work on it in the past year (2002-2003) then I have since I’ve owned it!