This beautiful — if a little damaged — 1966 Fiberfab Aztec flip-top is currently for sale by Keith (keithd—-@—-.com) in Kankakee, IL (near Chicago) for a scant $1,000. The thing I love about this car is how much it looks like a Hotwheels car, blown up to full scale! Keith has owned the car for eighteen years, during which time the car (mounted on a VW pan of course) has never run. So it’s going to be a fair amount of work for the person who takes over the project, but it has such incredible potential… The Aztec is one of my favorite classic kits and a very important part of US component car history.
PS. Wondering about the last photo? Keith explains, “I also included a photo of the car prior to spending $5 on a can of red spray paint…” Seriously though, this car could be amazing if someone wants to put in some real effort.
Andrew purchased this Fiberfab Valkyrie with I the intention of making an electric car. He doesn’t know much about its history other than that it’s been sitting for a very long time, and is looking to get in touch with other Valkyrie owners/builders — you can reach him at andrew@davincispocket.com.
The frame is the original Fiberfab Valkyrie frame, and the car originally had a Chevy small block, which has since been removed, along with the front and rear suspension to prepare the frame for a complete work-over. This has been started, and all the rust has been cut out and new metal has been welded in place. Andrew says that for all points and purpose this is a complete ground-up build, as he’s starting with just a frame and a body. It does have good front and rear glass at least!
Stay tuned for future updates on this build project and check out his blog at evmania.com for more indepth coverage of his project.
Jim’s (jameswlinck@hotmail.com) got an interesting first-generation Fiberfab Aztec for sale, with an asking price of $3,000. If you’re wondering why the wheel wells are filled in, he was prepping this car to compete in the automotive X Prize (building a high MPG production vehicle). He decided to drop out though, explaining,
This car is an early Aztec which claimed 100 mph on 40 bhp. It has a very low drag factor and with some extreme clean up is as good as anything entered in the Xprize with the same frontal area. It is well known that a conventional car that is very light and clean with a small motor will get over 100 miles per gallon. One established that at 114 miles per gallon in 1984 and is entered in the Xprize. I can’t decide to spend the time and money to enter since the rules are not established and they can easily favor hybrids or battery power cars, meaning you can not win with a conventional car, which makes the contest look foolish. I have an experimental water lubricated/cooled carbon motor concept I wanted to try and demonstrate in the contest, but its getting too late to throw all of this together without the formula. So I am thinking about selling the car and just making a proof of concept motor and letting it go to patents, which it has to at some point anyhow.
He’s located in Atlantic Beach, Florida. The car is on a VW pan with the Fiberfab subframe, but does not come with papers and is not currently running.
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.
Pierre, who lives just south of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, has this Aztec 7 up for sale, and is willing to throw in an unassembled dunebuggy as well (with all the pieces including engine and transmission) — $5,000 takes them both. He’s also open to any interesting trades. You can contact him at pierre.krstic@sympatico.ca. This is one of the few Aztec 7s in Canada (and they can’t be imported), so if you want one, write Pierre. It’s had a few modifications done including headlight relocation and the possibility of hood scoops.
Kevin in the Detroit area has got this interesting Fiberfab Aztec 7 (type B) project car — interesting because it’s built on a midengine V6 chassis, similar to what would be in a Valkyrie.
He’s got all the fiberglass (except the seats), and it’s in good shape except for a few chips underneath and no cracks. The louvres are sagging slightly. He has the side glass but not the front glass, and is asking $1,000 and can be reached at A_Z_T_E_C_7@hotmail.com. It’s going to take some work, but for the right person this car has a ton of potential.
A nice looking Fiberfab Aztec 7 with a great light treatment (redesigned front pods and an array of lights across the back) just got posted to eBay (#140255352417) in Marshall, Texas. The rear bumper/hatch is freshly repaired (as you can see in the pictures), so it will need to be repainted, the speedometer cable needs replacing, and a short somewhere in the electrical system is draining the battery, but other than that it’s said to be a solid car. It’s on a ‘71 VW pan with a Ghia motor (which they’d planned to convert to electric, but at 54mpg highway mileage, why bother?), but is currently registered as an ‘82 (presumably when the car was completed). One of the side windows has a crack in it, which the seller estimates as a $200 repair, but since it’s just flat plexi, it should actually cost quite a bit less than that — only the front windshield in an Aztec 7 is an expensive repair since it’s out of a Lamborghini Muira. The car comes with manuals and paperwork (receipts, letters, etc) and is up with a “buy it now” price of $4,800 which seems like about the right price for this car.
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