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Found a rare car for possible project..

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:27 am
by Slinky
I wanted something unusual for a project and found out my friend was selling this, a 70's Bradley GT II. Its a kit car, a fiberglass body on a 1969 volkswagon chassis, i did not go look at it but he said the finberglass is mint and was just repainted and has no chassis rust.. He also said it has a dual port 1776cc engine with headers (57 hp) with low miles..

I do not know much about VW Cars or these cars at all, has anyone had any experience with these ect?
I havent driven it yet but 57hp dosent sound like very much power..
BTW he wants $4500 for it, it needs new door seals and some interior he said, reasonable?

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Re: Found a rare car for possible project..

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:07 pm
by Money pit Beretta
WOW, WOW,WOW!

Re: Found a rare car for possible project..

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:50 pm
by scd88ga
You can't really get much more simple than an air cooled VW engine! The aftermarket for them is huge, and it's not hard or too expensive to build or swap the engine for more power! With some modern updating, offset wheels/tires, window tint, etc. it will be a neat little car!

Re: Found a rare car for possible project..

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:13 pm
by Rodville
Very nice!

Re: Found a rare car for possible project..

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:28 pm
by Alxsmt
never heard of that before. looks pretty cool tho! some guys are swaping sti engines in bugs, and porsche engines
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Re: Found a rare car for possible project..

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:56 pm
by berettaboi
pretty neat! yeah it might be a really light car, and may go pretty good with that 57 hp... you never know. there's a cult following to the vw air cooled stuff

Re: Found a rare car for possible project..

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:06 pm
by Slinky
anyone know values for these cars?
Im going to look myself tomarrow..

Re: Found a rare car for possible project..

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:02 am
by scd88ga
This is the ONLY one that came up in the US on Craigslist... http://sacramento.craigslist.org/cto/2777953888.html

Is your buddies worth $4,500... Heck no! It's still cool though!!!

It's hard to put a value on a kit car because every one is different depending on what the builder spent on it...

Re: Found a rare car for possible project..

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:32 pm
by Berettas#1
Theres about 5 of them in my town, one is even at a dealership. There asking 2500 for it and the others I have seen are really cheap on c-list 900-1500 so I wouldent pay that much for it there cool looking but that price is pretty high.

Re: Found a rare car for possible project..

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:58 pm
by Slinky
Talked to him today, its a collectors car, matching everything rebuilt original engine, and numbers say one of the first ever produced, i am no longer interested because of the price..

Re: Found a rare car for possible project..

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:08 am
by MY91GT(Z)
as long as he has documentation to prove what he says the car may be worth it