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In a related "fun" idea, I watched a Faster With Finnegan episode on Motortrend where they "upgraded" a Scamborghini (80s Fiero w/ Countach body kit).  Too funny.  Dropped a 350 V8 into it, so that was fun, but couldn't push the hp too much since they didn't upgrade anything else in the trans, or brakes, or suspension, or really anything.  That's for a future episode.

 

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2 hours ago, Razors Edge said:

(80s Fiero w/ Countach body kit). 

Years ago my buddy & I were eating dinner at a bar, and seen white Countauch next door at the cell phone place. We walked over to take a look. As I was looking at the body gaps, I thought:scratchhead: this looks like crappy manufacturing for a Lamborghini. Then looked inside and seen a GM turn indicator, which is the same one I had in my Grand Prix.   :facepalm: Its a kit car :D

I've been next to a couple countach's...they are really nice cars.

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9 hours ago, Thaddeus Kosciuszko said:

I saw a documentary series on those...

 

Loved that show. I seen a KITT car in person aboot 20 years ago in a parking lot. I chatted w/ the dude for a minute. There is a company that sold all the bits & pieces :) cool as heck.

 

I sat in one, in 1982 at Autorama in Detroit :D

 

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6 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said:

I had no idea. Should then be the Trailmaster

I bet, though, that somewhere in the GM skunkworks area, there is something like these ideas.  Sadly, they seemed to destroy a lot of their wild ideas, but maybe, at least, the sketches or design docs still exist?

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18 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said:

I had no idea. Should then be the Trailmaster

I am a little curious on how most people do it?  Body swap the Buick onto a truck frame with the running gear already in place?  Use existing Buick motor, frame and transmission and add in a transfer case, 4x4 front axle and beef up the suspension?  Curious. 

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16 minutes ago, Parr8hed said:

I am a little curious on how most people do it?  Body swap the Buick onto a truck frame with the running gear already in place?  Use existing Buick motor, frame and transmission and add in a transfer case, 4x4 front axle and beef up the suspension?  Curious. 

If the buick is a body on frame, then it relatively easy (for someone, not me). Not sure which body line its from.

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