The Eagle has landed!!!!!!!!!!

Jamie Palmer bought this last week from Steve (VZI username turbo-hippy) who has done some stirling work on it - if you want to see more details of the build have a look at his thread here...

http://www.volkszone.co.uk/VZi/showthread.php?t=579547

What Jamie has wisely purchased is exactly as Steve described.....a good solid '60 bug that has had a lot of work done to get it race ready. Call it fate but the main pull for Jamie purchasing the car is that they are 'friends of old' as its one of the very first bugs that he did any large amount of work on - it was then owned by a friend locally from Rugeley, Jamie and his bro Lee repainted it Red. fitted a 1914cc motor to it and a few other bits and bobs.
BUT the other big reason is that the car has been back-halved, with a rear cage and ladder bar conversion - this gets rid of the torsion bars and spring plates, and uses coil overs and ladder bars in their place. It all adds up to a better launch,
which is good, because LAUNCH IT HE SHALL!!!!!!!!

Here is a pic of the car safely parked up in its new home



Jamie's plans for the car are quite straightforward for the time being, he'll be putting in the 2276 draw through turbo that he was running his club iconic 54 Oval - although the engine is earmarked for some mods to try and get the turbo up above the gearbox instead of hanging out the back as it does now - main reason for this is Jamie intends to fit a decklid and run on the street.

Look out for changes in the wheel & tyre dept too when funds have recovered from the purchase of the bug. Other plans are firmly around weightsaving so he'll be looking to gradually change body panels for race weight 'glass, a change to Lexan in the windows and a few other changes here and there.

Hopefully with this chassis set up and a little less weight, and a lot more fine tuning of the engine Jamie is gunning for some solid 11 second passes with the car (exceeding his pb of 12.5 in the54). The club couldnt be any more made up for him