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).
Carl in Tijeras, New Mexico, is the third owner of this Fiberfab Valkyrie GT-X but has lost interest in the project and has put it up for sale on eBay (#110274594321). He has all the receipts from the purchase in 1967 onward. He completed the car mechanically and has driven it about twenty miles in testing, but it’s unfinished — it needs paint, interior, inner fenders, side glass, door handles (the doors are hung though), mirrors, and so on.
The gauges and electrical and driveline all work. The engine is a 327 V8 out of a ‘67 Camaro, mated to a 4-speed Corvair transmission. Both are rebuilt with low miles. Radiator and steering are out of a Corvette, and the wheels are American Racing. Carl says it handles great and has driven it over 60mph in his testing (4500RPM in 2nd), and says it handles better than his ‘88 Lotus did.
Especially because the Valkyrie is back in production by Fiberfab.us, this is very much a project that someone could take over. The car is currently at $5,600 and was listed without a reserve. It comes with all the manuals.
This beautiful second-generation Fiberfab Aztec 7, built exactly as it was designed to be built with a clean and original look, is currently up on eBay (#260266224423) in Kingman, Arizona. It’s barely been driven, and has a dual carb 1835cc engine (which is good, since it’s had an A/C system added, a rarity in VW-based kit cars). The body and interior both look solid, and it comes with all the manuals and every receipt since 1978… For anyone looking for a classic Aztec 7, this is one of the nicest ones you’ll see.
The Fiberfab Banshee (later renamed the Fiberfab Caribee after Fiberfab sold the Banshee name to GM in 1966) is one of their earliest and most beautiful cars, with long sleek lines highly reminiscent of the Daytona Cobra, with a more steeply raked windshield (out of a Corvette of the time) making it only 46″ high (and that’s with 6″ of ground clearance). Entry to the “spacious” cabin was through a pair of slightly small gullwing doors, and the car was first designed to fit an MGA, Austin Healy 6, or a Triumph TR-3 (and the TR-4 with slight modifications).
Michael bought a Caribee/Banshee that some numskull had mounted to a jacked up truck chassis (the fourth picture is as he bought it). He promptly removed it, with the intent of mounting it on a Corvette, but hasn’t got around to it and decided to put this rare body — only a dozen were made — up on eBay (#160261291277). Where he’s asking only $1,000 or best offer. Personally I think it’s worth this in a heartbeat, even for just the body — it’s a stunning vehicle when complete as you can see from the factory demo model photos and the pictures from Michael Luongo’s example. He’s located in Warren, MI — hurry and make your offer, because there are only six days left on the auction as I post this.
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.
The folks at Freddie’s Transmission in Dallas, who have quite a few neat old cars for sale (including a VW Trike) have a first-generation FiberFab Aztec (being sold for a customer) — which I prefer to the later slew of GT40-knockoffs that later dominated the exotic kitcar market — with the flip-top for sale for one of their customers. It’s definitely a project with a lot of work, and hasn’t run in years. “Make an offer”, they say. In my opinion it’s worth in the realm of $500… hope you have plenty of time on your hands. Love the paint job it used to have. Very Austin Powers.
…but does it come with the ketchup bottle?
Mike is selling a completely untouched Fiberfab Jamaican body — never had any holes drilled, never had the windows cut, nothing — sitting waiting for someone to install it onto a VW chassis. He’s located in Mentone, California, and is asking $1,900 or best offer (you’ll have to ask him why the windshield says $500). You can write him at the_potatoking@hotmail.com.
If you’re interested in putting this together, here’s the assembly manual for this version of the Fiberfab Jamaican (mirrored from the excellent FiberFab.us resource).
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