what are the options as far as a second hand or new long wheel base basic buggy body are concerned.
i love the red buggy being done up in hotVWs by so cal imports.
can u get these in OZ? i suppose not.
Beachbuggys australia have one, As do sharpbuilt. WHM has them too but I think he's out of the buggy game now.
http://www.beachbuggy.com.au/body.asp
http://www.sharpbuilt.com.au/dunebug.htm
http://www.whm.com.au/bodykits1.htm
Second handies would be few and far between, most of the buggies made were SWB. You could buy an old SWB bady and lengthen it but it's most likely
cheaper and easier to buy a new one, and that's coming from someone who actully modded his own SWB body.
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http://www.rhinobuggies.com.au (they got a vw buggy body coming out, best
thing, is that they are like 2 mins drive from me 
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As for the ones Wood mentioned, their pretty kool too. I like the bodies on the beachbuggy.com.au ones, the turn keys are superb, saw one at 2005 vw
klub fest show, and talked to the company representative who brought it down. Looked very modern, and well finished, especially in the interior.
As for sharpbuilt, around the same price, from memory a lil' cheaper in $$$ with alot of different things they sell, plus they have a new release out
now, and are more popular and from a technological aspect, seem to have more options.
Beachbuggy.com.au is bringing in a new buggy body in soon too. They aren't bad at all, They just don't advertise many technological aspects/options.
But i love the finishes on their turnkeys.
Their all good, with a lil' difference here and there. Just talk to em, see their web sites, and choose what eva takes ur aspirations.
custom off road
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not really after a ute.....well im after anything really.....cheapest lwb buggy body i can find i spose.
will check out those sites pete.
Why do you want a LWB one?
Extra seating, or QLD rego laws?
Coz if you wanted to do something real different, you could put an SWB body on a LWB chassis. The way to do it would be to have the front of the
chassis sticking out further and the front seats mounted further back. You have to shorten the gear shift and the cable tubes in the tunnel and mod
the pan a bit, but you'd need to do that anyway. It could look very hot rod and extra cool if you found a old looking shell and made the car a rat of
sorts. You could even put a spun Ali fuel tank up front like a gasser. :thumb
i want LWB for simplicity (no cutting up of the pan) and because i dont want hassles if i went to rego it.
im thinking about a SWB body on a standard pan and in my head it just looks all wrong lengthening a body might be the go but only if i can get a cheap
second hand SWb body otherwise id just get a MAXFX kit.
The long wheelbase Rat buggies look good Nick and I believe they're still available in Oz.
fibrefab, in Vic I think
Yeah http://www.fibrefab.com.au/
I heard from them about 12months ago and they were still doing them.
just checked out the website.
does the maxFX kit come with rollbar and all that jazz? cause the ratbuggy seems to be a more complete kit for your money.
I think that the Max kit is just the tub!!
You need to 'add-on' things like bar work ect. BBA can supply all this though
mat
The big advantage with the rat is that if you want to go watercooled later on, you a have a ready made grill cut out for a radiator. Might be worth
messaging Ratbug (I think that's his name anyway), coz he has one and could give you the heads up on it.
As for buying the rat based on rollbars, I'm guessing you'll probably need something a little more substantial than a single rollover hoop for
serious offroad anyway, so better getting that made up for the car once you have the body.
The other thing I should mention is, LWB pans need strenghening just like SWB pans. You will need to factor this into your budget, but if you can buy
a cheap mig (NOT gasless) and teach yourself to weld, you'll save yourself heaps...and learn heaps too.
ive no intention of going water cooled so thats not really an issue right now.
by strengthening you mean with a lift kit style thing? there are manxs getting around without lift kits though?
i know id need more than a roll over hoop but if it comes with something thats better than nothing considering the kits are similarly priced and the
rat bug kit appears to come with a lot more goodies.
does anyonw have a pic of a LWB rat buggie in its standard or more or less standard form?
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