Who doesn’t love frozen Cars & Coffee?

chandler said:

I should drop down for one of these

Always welcome to join the party sir!  ~2hr drive if memory serves.  You'd be welcome to crash at the 84FSP pad if you like.

rslifkin said:

...I know a guy who has a 917 kit on a Beetle chassis.  Hasn't run in a while, but when it was last running, it had a Mazda 12A in the engine bay. 

Ugh, that's exactly why kit cars get such a bad name (at least in the past) due to the shotgun weddings forcing the ultimate car shapes to "hook up" with a Beetle chassis. Glad those days are gone (mostly)!

In this specific case of the Porsche, I found the pics in my old Kimini build diary, see below. Regarding the "crazy hot rods", I couldn't remember the one in mind but it was a Nash Metropolitan, seen side by side with Kimini.

kb58 said:

Ugh, that's exactly why kit cars get such a bad name (at least in the past) due to the shotgun weddings forcing the ultimate car shapes to "hook up" with a Beetle chassis. Glad those days are gone (mostly)!

Agreed.  In the case of the 917 kit, the chassis choice worked ok.  The whole thing isn't quite a dead ringer for a real 917 in a few ways (after digging up some pictures of it to confirm), but it's pretty close (to the original 917, not the 917K).  The Beetle chassis actually fits pretty well under that kit.  Wheelbase is about right for a 917, engine is in the correct place, etc.  Not like some kits where getting it to fit on a Beetle chassis was clearly a hack-job. 

It's that time of year again snow-belt gear heads!  A balmy 23drg Cars and Coffee this morning at the regular spot in Cincinnati.  Decent turnout.  Thank god they had the fire going for us.

Yikes, the cold isn't the hang up this morning-the wind is!

I did NOT remember Kimini's arches were that wide, tho I only saw it once.....