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Official baja bug thread, lets talk bajas

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Hey guys im interested in getting my hands on a baja bug, rolling chassis, engine gearbox, with papers, doesnt have to be a pretty creature but with little or no cancer would b good, want to make a toy i can throw around in the mud, anyone got bits or one lyin around. Who here drives one, how much abuse can they take, what styles u into etc?
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Hey Tristram, check out the Junk Mail, there are plenty of good bargains.
I recently picked up a rolling chassis with baja body and some parts for R600.
In the meantime if I see something I will let you know.
Baja's are great fun. I once attended a 4WD obstacle day and on the one particularly difficult obstacle only a Baja got through. Jeeps, Landys, you name it, they got stuck but the Baja went through. :hangloose:
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I say this with all the respect in the world, however, WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT A BAJA?
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Hey! Baja's are cool.
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BUGGOFF wrote:Hey! Baja's are cool.

Give me some meat :!:
"Volkswagen customers want a relationship with their cars. Names like The Thing, Beetle, Fox, and Rabbit support this" - Kerri Martin
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I believe Vader can offer you one :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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Bajas? I luuuuuuuuuuuuv Bajas! Especially the early US-spec 'bug eye' kits, as the pics below. I have one of those kits that I have treasured for many years till that 'some day'...

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BUGGOFF wrote:Hey! Baja's are cool.
No...

Bajas are SUPER COOL!!

....well, at least most of the time

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HR a problem.....he said little or no rust, not little or no metal! :lol:
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Shockingly Pine didn't mention anything about Oval window Bajas! :shock:
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It is because I got some terrible news on Sunday...

The Oval Baja I had, which was bought by Flatfourfan, and sold to Kobus, who re-sold it again....

...was turned into a stock-standard normal Oval Beetle again :(

I am a broken man :( :( :(
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Baja's are too plastic for my liking :twisted:
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Uhm... you take your toebroodjies to work in plastic, dammit!

REAL Bajas have fibreglass curves. LOTS of fibreglass curves :flash: :flash: :flash:
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Just yanking your fanbelt cover.

Wouldn't mind a (wait for it, wait for it !!!) OVAL baja myself. There is just something so wrong it makes it feel right (Did I "say" that out loud :oops:)

BIG wheels, flat black or camo paint, ready to @#$#@$ up the landy's and cruisers :hangloose:

Any reason why someone would not be able to fit reduction boxes in a baja ?
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Eazie now boyz, l doubt when Herr Hitler said "Volkswagen", he was thinking of saving the planet! "Use as little metal as you can, and if you can't find enough, make the wagen half plastic (half archer, boot & bonnet) and half metal".
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