Post by Brandon on Sept 10, 2008 21:56:28 GMT -6
So my buddy drives by this old building and spies these "things" sitting out side. Stops and the guy tells him that he's "a day late."
The shop closed down 30 years ago, he bought the property and has been cleaning it out to store his airplane and some other stuff.
Says they used to make these dunebuggies or something and has these that are too big to chuck. He says that the big, BFI roll-back dumpster left YESTERDAY with all of the smaller things that they could pick up and throw away. Hoods, side panels, trim stuff.... says it was full of crap.
My buddy ends up with what is left....
Apparently they had these "Barris Sport Centers" in the late '60's and closed them in '71. They were scattered about the country and made dunebuggies. People had to go to a Barris Training course or whatever.... we are not sure if the building was one of those, or just the remnants of what somebody still had, but here's what we got:
About 50 of these flyers....
A complete, unmounted Fun Buggy body, and the rear mold..
Going by the rounded fenders, this is a mold for the C-Cab delivery truck, and it has a red metalflake body still in it, unhatched.
The square fenders make this a T-buggy mold, and again, it has a body unhatched and still in it...
They both have small bumps near the gas tank to clear an early, link pin front axle and require shortened pans...
I'm wondering if anyone has any hoods or tops or side panels that we could pop another mold from and make a few of these? How cool would it be to drive the Fun Buggy???
The shop closed down 30 years ago, he bought the property and has been cleaning it out to store his airplane and some other stuff.
Says they used to make these dunebuggies or something and has these that are too big to chuck. He says that the big, BFI roll-back dumpster left YESTERDAY with all of the smaller things that they could pick up and throw away. Hoods, side panels, trim stuff.... says it was full of crap.
My buddy ends up with what is left....
Apparently they had these "Barris Sport Centers" in the late '60's and closed them in '71. They were scattered about the country and made dunebuggies. People had to go to a Barris Training course or whatever.... we are not sure if the building was one of those, or just the remnants of what somebody still had, but here's what we got:
About 50 of these flyers....
A complete, unmounted Fun Buggy body, and the rear mold..
Going by the rounded fenders, this is a mold for the C-Cab delivery truck, and it has a red metalflake body still in it, unhatched.
The square fenders make this a T-buggy mold, and again, it has a body unhatched and still in it...
They both have small bumps near the gas tank to clear an early, link pin front axle and require shortened pans...
I'm wondering if anyone has any hoods or tops or side panels that we could pop another mold from and make a few of these? How cool would it be to drive the Fun Buggy???
