cobra kit based on vw

[YerDugliness]

Originally Posted by DougD

Seriously, didn't someone offer a VW-based Cobra kit in the US many years ago?

I have been following the kit car industry since the days where the only ads were in Popular Mechanics magazines. Many of the kits were VW based back then, and IIRC there WAS one Cobra kit based on a VW chassis.

Admittedly it's been MANY years since then...it was back in the late 1960s...but if my memory serves me correctly the kit was an Arntz product.

I could be totally wrong about it being an Arntz product...you know what they say, the memory is the second thing to go!

I do specifically recall a VW based Cobra replica, though...mixed in with those Bradleys and Fiberfab/Kelmark Dino replicas and the neo-classics and Brittish MG replicas...there were even VW based MG replicas.

Hope you can find one...but I agree with the recommendation that the OP consider a 356 "bathtub" Porsche replica or a Porsche 550 Spyder replica if he wants a rear-engined replicar. The kits are engineered for that application and fitting a current Cobra body to a VW pan would seem like too much trouble and expense for what you'd end up with.

Good luck to the OP, though.

Cheers!

Dugly