Terry just sold off his VW-based Avenger kit for $1,500 after sitting for twenty years. He thinks the interesting tail lights are out of an old Firebird but he’s not sure.
Not that it makes a big difference, but this Fiberfab Avenger GT-12 Kit is mounted on a 1971 VW Karmann Ghia pan with an 1835cc engine. It has the tilt front and rear (which can be completely removed in about ten minutes for maintenance), front disk brakes, roll up windows, full gauges, and CD stereo. On the whole everything works, although it could use some touches like proper weatherstripping, inner fenders, more sound insulation, and tweaking of a couple of the senders. The current owner is 6′2″, so drop-floors were added. The trunk stores tools, a floor jack and a high pressure compact spare mounted on a VW rim.
The car is located near Disneyland in California and is currently on eBay (#280250061617).
Speaking of classic exotic kit cars up for sale in Canada — a relative rarity — also on the market is this Fiberfab Avenger. Red with pinstripes and presumably on a VW pan, although it’s listed as a five-speed with a Porsche 914 engine and Magnaflow exhaust, it’s got an Alpine stereo, Riken rims, and has never seen winter. It’s up for sale in Orono, Ontario (near Oshawa and Toronto). Rob is asking $10,000 and you can reach him via email at rice-rob@hotmail.com.
Tim Drager, an electrical engineer from Pottstown, PA, spent about $20,000 and 200 hours — a remarkably fast built on some levels — converting his 1971 Fiberfab Avenger into a plug-in electric vehicle. He’s driven it about 5,000 miles so far, and is selling it to support his new habit, a 1967 Cessna Turbo 210 aircraft.
With electricity at $.08 per KWH he figures it gets the equivalent of about 120mpg. It’ll do over 80mph (100-200hp equivalent — an ADVANCED DC #FB1-4001A — mated to the standard 4-speed VW transmission), and 0-60 in about 10 seconds. Range is between 100 miles and 30 miles depending on your driving habits, and it takes four to ten hours to charge on household voltage (Rudman PFC-20B system). Accessories are standard 12V, and the driveline is 144V DC at 500 amps. It’s got four-wheel disc brakes, door poppers, gauges, two sets of tires, and more.
Minor work is needed, including an oil change, dealing with some rattling, the interior, paint, corrosion treatment, sealing (you can run it in light precipitation, but for all-weather use some work needs to be done), and the headlight switch should be replaced. Minor trim should be fixed (as you can see in the picture of the headlight covers and steering wheel), but all-in-all, this has the potential to be an award winning vehicle. It also comes with the development laptop that interfaces to the vehicle. Tim describes it at present as an “amateur-built engineering prototype in drivable condition.”
If you’re interested in the car, it’s up on eBay right now (#140248875246) with an asking opening bid of $14,950, and Tim can be reached by email at tdrager@yahoo.com (tech support comes with the car of course). The car is currently located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
Well this is an odd project! This Fiberfab Avenger started life as the version that they offered for the Corvair driveline, but one of the recent owners cut all that out and grafted in the front and rear from a Jaguar XJ6 (and cut out the floor), with the intention of running a 500 CI Caddilac V8 up front… Doesn’t seem like a good idea to me, nor did it seem like a good idea to Eugene, who bought the project as you see it now.
His plan was to use the XJ6 components as a fasttrack to setting up an electric vehicle, but he hasn’t had time to work on it and has decided to sell it. It’s essentially a rolling body right now. He’s located in Goldsboro, North Carolina and you can reach him at partsfreak125@yahoo.com. He’s asking $2,000 or “interesting trades”.
Dave recently sold his Aztec GT (to a guy that builds tube racing chassis, so maybe we’ll see something exciting), and sent in some pictures of his other projects, including his blue Avenger that he drove from TN to Carlisle for the annual kit car show, and his white Aztec 7 that he drove to Indy for the kit car Run and Gun — perfectly capable of keeping up with the Cobras. He’s now putting together another Aztec 7, which he may build around a VW fuel injection system of his own design — 50+ mpg with any luck.
I just realized that I have a ton of photos that were on this site before I converted to a blog setup, and will try and get those re-added over the next couple weeks. For starters here’s the collection of Avengers that were at Carlisle in 1999.
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