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This was my first car that I received for my 20th Birthday, but it wasn't always like this though. It used to be babyshit brown (honey brown ed.) so all my mates used to call it 'Poobug'. It has only come back into my care after a 4 year absence when I sold it to my neighbour with the condition that if he was to ever sell it I was to have first option. So recently I received a phone call from the owner saying that after 25 years he was quitting the bank & buying a lawn mowing business & 'Poobug had to go. I immediately felt like I was a contestant on 'The Price is right" & made him an offer. So 'Poobug' was mine again. It was exactly how I had sold it to him. It had never even been off the Central Coast in all that time, as it was used only as transport to & from the station. It isn't exactly in the condition in which I had sold it to put it nicely, I've had 2 guards reprayed but eventually I think that the whole car will be done again. The interior is still immaculate & the little 1640cc (the first motor that I ever built) still purr's perfectly & never been touched since I sold it. So it was 3 weeks before the VW Nationals & I decided to go for it & try & get it there. But there was a slight obstacle. I had to swap over everything from my white 72 Superbug. So the race was on everything had to be swapped over, wheels, brakes, gearbox, suspension, interior gauges etc. I was also building a brand new stroker motor at the same time. I would have got it to the drags on Saturday at Oran Park but my wife gave birth to Dominic on Good Friday 4 weeks ahead of schedule.

So it was a good weekend after all..

The car Is now almost finished & it's first outing onto the track will be the 9th of July at Eastern Creek. Can't wait to wind it up down that long straight, I'll also have an Aero Wing to keep it on the ground as well by then.

Can't Wait.

Here are the specs of my car.

1971 Superbug S (1302)
Painted Quartz metallic (Purple)
16 x 6 & 16 x7 polished Fusch's
Standard disk's up front but cross-drilled
Type 3 rear drums
Ferrodo anti-fade pads all round (brilliant)
Fully adjustable struts up front with 2.5 inch spring, Koni inserts, 22mm swaybar
KYB adjustables out back with adjustable swaybar
Polyurethane bushes throughout
2.5 degrees camber front
3.0 degrees camber rear
1880cc engine
73mm hand welded crank
Chevy rods
90.5mm 'b' pistons
9.0 compression
standard heads full port & polish
45mm dells with match ported manifolds
1.5 inch merged header
fully balanced & blueprinted
Berg single springs & chromoly pushrods
revs to 7500rpm & pulls from 3000rpm
Autometer tacho oil pressure & temp & head temp
car is raced in supersprint & hillclimbs, all work done by me myself & I

Stay cool

JAK RIZZO