VW IRS Chassis KitCar,DRB Sabre Mk1 Ferrari 250,Ford GT40 Replica

Condition:	Used
Date of Manufacture:	01/1979
Kilometres:	9,999,999
For Sale by:	Private Seller
Type of Title:	Clear (most titles)
Transmission:	Manual
Manufacturer:	Vw
Fuel Type:	Petrol
Model:	Camaro
Doors:	2
Colour:	Orange
Body Type:	Coupe
Car Type:	Passenger Vehicles
Price:	AU $2,750.00
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VW Volkswagon Fiberglass FERRARI/SABRE Kit Car with suitable
VW Type IRS Chassis for Porsche, Ferrari, Eureka, DRB Sabre Mk1, Ferrari 250-Ford GT40 replica's. Selling due to illness, all reasonable offers considered, no swaps thanks Finish it off or use the chassis and motor and roll cage/frame of this Sabre body for great start to your Replica or Dune Buggy OFFROAD/TRACK Racer or Hill Climber. Make great head turning burnout or dragster. Getting harder to find good classic kit car from 30 years ago,
Cash Only. Features: VW type chassis
Subaru 1800 motor fitted (untested)
Ford pattern wheel disc brakes fitted
VW gearbox
Fiberglass Ferrari body style
Subaru electric Fuel Pump
Petrol tank
Doors and other parts included Kit cars have flexibility that isn't available to showroom cars. This Sabre is Sabre but with few differences. Ref from KIT CAR AUSTRALIA MAGAZINE (1986/7) JOHN EDEN represents the clearest picture ever seen of the typical kit builder. He has considerable mechanical skills and long running love affair with cars. Tired of modifying cars made by faceless factories, John decided the time had come to give in to build himself something different.
His search didn't go past Sabre manufacturer Dennis Bed-ford
on Queensland's south coast. John liked the car's use of VW Type Three floor pan, stronger than the beetle, and its adjustable suspension and front disc brakes. To make it stronger (far stronger than it needs to be) designer Dennis has come up with an add-on chassis.
The history of this chassis goes back to the Queensland Government's stringent kit car requirements. The car must have bumper bar front and rear before it can be registered in the sunshine state.
Fitting bumper bar to the average kit car would not only be herculean task, it would destroy the rakish lines of almost every one of them. Dennis Bedford solved the problem by using stroke of lateral genius the bumper bars are inside the car, behind the fiberglass. They form the end pieces of add-on chassis. Finding the kit to build was than finding the chassis to build it on.
Finally John bought 1972 Type Three wagon that had been involved "in slow roll ". It was disc-braked VW with 1600 engine and only 46,000 km on the clock. Building the Sabre wasn't piece of cake. It's good kit with the flexibility to be further customized by dedicated builder. It was the first Sabre to be made with the deeper doors, giving it easier access. Fitting the roof proved more difficult than John had anticipated. Letting one fiberglass molding into another takes skill with the pot mix and the mat. John pointed out the joins but they were visible only to his fastidious eye. The same applies to the side scoops. There's no CADCAM computer available to do photo-image top of various components which are mirror images of each other on either side of the car. For the kit car builder, correct positioning of final parts is very much in the skill of the builder's hands. The scoops took more than 40 hours. Rubbing the car back took similar amount of time. John chose Porsche Guards Red originally. But the spray painter, in his wisdom, created colour which is almost identical, but uses mixture of stock colours. His reasoning was that some of the special colours used to make Guards Red might, one day, be unavailable. It took time to build the Sabre correctly, and John Eden's Sabre is correctly built. The interior has been fitted with trim and carpet that has been professionally cut and edged. The difference is dramatic and brings up one important point about building kit car. The whole concept of kit car is that you do it yourself. But there are items of final detailing which are best left to professionals. Leaving the interior trim to trim specialist not only makes the car look like professionally made product but it adds value to it. The Sabre is no lightweight. It tips the scales at more than 800 kg............ please see photo's for condition or make an appointment to see it.



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