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posted on January 15th, 2006 at 11:45 AM
REALLY a shame to see it like THAT...!!!
That car was beautiful not so long ago...
I still remember the magazine shoot on it...
Some nice shots on the beach...
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posted on January 15th, 2006 at 12:04 PM
I think you have the wrong Baja there .... this is not the one you are thinking off built by Volksrestore way back then, this is a different one that
looks similiar. This one was converted by Custom Offroad in 1991
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posted on January 15th, 2006 at 12:19 PM
Looks the same to me....right down to the stickers on the side and the rego plates
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posted on January 15th, 2006 at 06:00 PM
mmmm
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Looks the same to me....right down to the stickers on the side and the rego plates
Wow looks like I am wrong .. I asked the guy I got it off and he said it was different. Very weird since he has had it since 93 and paperwork to
support it...
That picture pretty much proves him wrong though, hey does the article say who ownes it ??
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posted on January 15th, 2006 at 06:09 PM
It says it was owned by Mark & Cherie, also says it owed them $10K to build it to what it was.
Scott Turnham built the motor & Volksrestore did the bodywork
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posted on January 15th, 2006 at 06:15 PM
This is the first one I found it in. Its a yearbook, but I'm sure it was in another one of the editions as well.
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posted on January 15th, 2006 at 06:23 PM
wow that is funny .. Mark and Cherie ar the couple I got it off and the old engine was built by Scott, I asked Mark if it was the one in the Mag and
he said no ... heheh oh well I will drop him a copy of the mag .. hehe
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posted on January 15th, 2006 at 06:34 PM
I rekon that baja one looks dam awesome, but the prob i ahve with the chop tops is that the finish around the front windscreen looks as though it has
been chopped, rather than a convert. hmm, would it be possible to cut off the wind screen to and somehow fit a buggy windscreen. I wonder how it would
look, but then you wouldn't have those lil' side windows.
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posted on January 15th, 2006 at 06:44 PM
The magazine i have it in is Best Volkswagens No 3 and the cover of that issue is a orange 76 Karmen con,v Beetle , must be early 97 as there is a
program for the nationals posted inthe same issue and thats at easter anyway Brad i hope your not going to cut it up. It would make a good project for
your apprentices to cut there teeth on All right mabey subi power!!!!!
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posted on January 16th, 2006 at 08:36 AM
Similar to mine.
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posted on January 16th, 2006 at 09:40 AM
Baja's never seem to live a long happy life.
I first saw it pretty soon after the Volksrestore did the paint job. I always wondered where he got the bullbar because it looks very similar to mine.
Back then (even when it was in the magazine) it was a very rough car with a good paint job. The lift kit was really bad and you could see the ground
from the inside in many places.
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posted on January 16th, 2006 at 09:50 PM
The lift kit has been redone. when baja was first built it never had a lift kit. Got the lift kit in about 2001 before that it only had the
convertible kit which sits UNDER the floor pan .
anyone who says it's bad to put subaru motors in vw's.....
hasnt got a clue about smoooooooooth
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posted on January 19th, 2006 at 02:37 AM
Get that subaru shit off there...
Hey I read all the way through, and I'll be Darned,
Couldn't see the words, "I'm Sorry, I stand Corrected",
ANYWHERE....
pppffftttt... Go figure.. Better get me eyez checked ta-morra aaayyyee...
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posted on January 19th, 2006 at 09:12 AM
Every so often terry is right on the money!
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posted on January 19th, 2006 at 09:17 AM
Whats this stuff you guys say is usually under a vert baja?
Mines just a flat pan mad of 3mm steel and is re-enforced with 100x100 box steel that runs the width of the pan (on the top), and that what my seats
ended up mounted to.
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posted on January 19th, 2006 at 10:54 AM
I remember first seeing this car back in 92 or 93. Mark used to bring it into the servo
I worked at. It was red all over and he said he bought it for his girlfriend as he still had
a pretty wild looking white baja. Then the white one dissapeared and I think this one
got a lot of its parts and got this paint job around 95 or 96 I think. It would dissapear for ages while
he was doing something to it, then you'd see it around, then it would dissapear again
etc, until I saw a for sale ad for it last year. Now I know what happened to it.
And I don't know about it being beautiful, it was certainly very well used!!
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posted on January 19th, 2006 at 10:38 PM
mmmm
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Originally
posted by WA Volksrodder
Get that subaru shit off there...
Hey I read all the way through, and I'll be Darned,
Couldn't see the words, "I'm Sorry, I stand Corrected",
ANYWHERE....
pppffftttt... Go figure.. Better get me eyez checked ta-morra aaayyyee...
mm yeah better go with the eye thing ...... then you can let me know which part of "Looks Like I am wrong" you don't seem to understand .....
As I said the guy who I bought it off, which was mark said straight up it wasn't worked on at Volksrestore and it was a different baja, I didn't
bother checking the magazine cause unlike 11CAB I have no idea what is where.
