NoFrills and No Worries. A projct coming together. I doubt it will ever be finished.

Drop Bear the 71 Baja is a wild weekender set up for offroad, long distance weekends and night driving.

All electricals, braking and suspension has been upgrarded with mild mechanical modification to the stock 1600tp mill for reliability. With only extractors, a 4-2-1 exhaust and a 32PICT-2 breathing through an industrial donaldson airfilter.

A regular throughout central NSW and Stockton Beach near Newcastle. It will get to as many VW events over the coming months as time and money become more available.








Check back again soon as i will have Video footage hosted on YouTube and a dedicated website just for the Drop Bear.

Please post and let me know what you think.

The Bronze.
PS- I'm chasing a cheap 2nd hand motor if you have a spare one.

love it, specially the pic with the wheel dangling in the air.

Looks a bit different to the last time I saw it Bronze.

hey hey long live th dog o war..... oops, the drop bear

Great work bronze, looks exactly like a baja should - no frills and very functional. Love the photos, especially the ones showing how great a departure angle you have and the aritculation on the front end (ie wheel dangling in space...)

Good stuff

that looks great ,,,,hope mine turns out just as good

It's only really half done. I haven't put the scratches down the sides, roo blood and guts all over the front, mud on the roof and Garret Turbo pokeing out the top of the engine bay. All still yet to come in the months and years ahead.

Drop Bear the ongoing project.

This weekend we are doind some filming and taking some action shots. What we need is a drought so we can have plenty of dust and dead grass flicking up from the surface of the Earth as it scratches it's marks here, there and everywhere. Oh hang on, were in a drought. Oh, Ok, plans are still on for this weekend then. Unless it rains - Then I can add the mud to the roof.

Bronze.

Hey Bronze, good to see the old girl back. make sure you repost your last back at stockton when you where defiriing gravity.:thumb

I'm into tyres at the moment...can you tell me the sizes on your baja...it looks great!

Just about to go to bed - I'll write the brand and size down tomorrow for you. Remind me if I forget..

These are good tyres as the walls arn't to thick and they buldge nicely in the sand. I can go as low as 5psi and they stick tight. No herd turns though just in case. Don't want to peel them off the bead out there.

B.

Really looks great....

Lee

Thanks Lee.

My tyres are all redial "Kelly Safari AWR" with 30x9.5 (4 ply) on the rear and P205/75R15's (2ply) on the front.

Although I can fit slightly bigger these came with the car (6 years ago) and have been faultless. They are 30% worn. They stick like poo to a doonah, never had a puncture (Touch wood), never peeled off the bead and squash down nicely on the walls for driving in the sand.

I have seen other brands where buggies just do not have enough weight to get their tyre walls to fold down. When I buy my next tyres in about 10 years at the rate these are wearing I will be looking closely at the walls and then the tread pattern.

Here is the vid we made today. It's only short as we were running out of light. I have never done one of these before so it was a learning experience. Might have another go tomorrow with a little more footage and time.

Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C6-6EN53S8  (Quick View)
Manx Club - http://www.manxgallery.org/gallery/Buggy-Photos/Drop_Bear_Baja  (Clearer view to Download - 14.9mb)

Special thanks to The Manx Club (Brad) for hosting the clearer version.

Stay Tuned!

[ Edited on 28-10-2006 by The_Bronze. ]

the full size version on the manxclub gallery is cool

Looks like to test properly these days you just have to hit a tree!!! (Brad hit a sapling with mine) Looks great.Nice exhaust note!! Get into it!!!:thumb

love it, but bronze are these "baja kits" a meyers manx design i thought i saw that somewhere and there was local copys made ?? im looking at uying a kit and wandering if there is a way to identify them?

geez what size exhaust pipes does it have? Do you have a close up pic of the engine/exhaust?

I saw this bug come up for sale a few years back but didn't have any cash. Does anyone know where it ended up? Bronze?