south african sp1600

[kevin sp1600]

I Am slowly restoring one of these if any one has any south african beetle spares available especialy the rear light spacers and front reflectors on the wings would be good :thumbs:
fortunatly the five speed box and twin carb engine fitted in the factory are still intact .
any other info on these unusual and rare cars so far i have found 2 others .one in a museum in japan and one owned by a gent in SA
And information from vw is ,what car , did we make that ??? . Not one of out chassis numbers pmsl . mind you the car is enough to confuse anyone as they seem to make it out of what they had in the factory at the time and played about and made a few cars out of them odd though the castings for the carb manifolds are audi !!! or at least are cast with there logo

any help please
kevin

[ray356]

nice one m8, lets see some pics of it, there was one on vzi for sale a while back, they do use all sorts on there cars, the T-25 have up 2 a 2.8 motor in the also Audi, i worked out there a few years back, and have some good friends out there ill see if i can find out some info for ya

[kevin sp1600]

wonder what he sold it for lol
i know it wasnt this one as this one was was brought from the son of the origininal driver who drove it in the top of the world rally in south africa (hence the 5speed box ) 1st is below normal 1st and fith sort of 4th and 1/2 . . car was shipped over 15 years ago on open deck you dont want to know what the salt has done suffice to say im putting another body shell on there is a pic of my car on sebeetles website just after my father brought it 15 years ago http://www.sebeetles.com/sp_bug.htm mine is the white one at the bottom the yellow one is the one is the one is the one in japan.

[ray356]

looks a nice bug there m8, the one vzi i looked like a 1303 but still had the torsion bar front beam, think it was up for £900 :eek:

[kevin sp1600]

they all have king and link pin front end the info i have so far from SA is the standard SP model used normal brakes mine is fitted with 356 frond drums and 5 stud van rears to give it more breaking this is possible wilth not much more than bearing changes (thanks to skf bearings for sourcing replacements ) the rear lights are round like 1303 but use spacers to allow them to be fitted on std 1200 style wings . dash should be fully fitted with factory with vdo gauges . and if it went for 900 quid and it was genuine what a bargain the guy in south africa paid the equivilent of 19 grand for his

[ray356]

it was a 1600s here the link
http://www.volkszone.com/VZi/showthread.php?t=511748&highlight=south+african+bug

[kevin sp1600]

thought so not an sp . and not even any good for spares the 1600s was a factory production model available from all dealers based on a 1302 but with an early frame head as they stayed on 5 stud wheels . mind you whoever brought it can i have the twin carb linkage please lol .and at one point they even dabbled with voice recognition geaboxes !!!!(only spoke 4 undestood 4 langauges all african ) i have the tech spec on paper here for those not that i will ever see one lol::D