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It's not quite the same car but doesnt it look familiar???

http://www.oldbug.com/brasilia.htm

Those are sweet and I wouldn't mind having one. I believe they have a type 1 engine with a wierd looking upright fan shroud.




Now, I'd really like to have one of these babys.



Heres some more if you're interested.

http://www.biavilela.com/vwsp2/English/ ... nglish.htm

WOW, is that thing air or water cooled?

Air cooled, 1584 cc engine, twin carb, made in Brazil called the Model SP could be for Sao Paulo or Sport Prototype or whatever.

The nicest VW ever made you fitted inside and felt in a real sports car, its a shame it never went into real mass production and export to other countries.

I drove a yellow one and in tyhose days, early 70's it was my dream car.

Cheers

SACEM1

Type 3 setup

man that is sweet, I wonder if modified that thing would scream with a big type 4 or even a 911 engine......

I don't know, but I would love to find out.

The Brasilia was a Type 1 all the way. The SP-1 and SP-2 were Type III-based.

sacem1 wrote:The nicest VW ever made you fitted inside and felt in a real sports car, its a shame it never went into real mass production and export to other countries.

They were originally intended to be exported for the North American market. Trouble was the headlights were too low for US-specs. Rather than raise the car like MG did with the exported Midget in the latter-1970s or redesign with flip-up hideaway headlamps like the VW-Porsche 914, Volkswagen kept the SPs for South America only. Pity indeed.