Topic: Looking to Start, weighing options
A friend and I are looking in to starting a Lemons team to run a race in lower Michigan. We can get the hookups for most of the safety gear, transportation, lodging, and the like. We're currently weighing our vehicle options.
I've owned Subarus for four years, he's had Volkswagens. We've found two cars that look promising, so I'm looking in to what it would take to get each one running amd keeping it alive.
2000 Volkswagen Golf GL 5 speed
This one apparently needs a cam sensor, but the guy has a spare one and my friend knows how to fix that easily. For the list price, we could easily invest in cooling and longevity parts within the $500 limit. It's a ways away, but we wouldn't have an issue going to get it.
1969 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia 5 speed
The ad for this one says it runs great, but needs metalwork like floor pans and rockers. I know it shares a platform with the Beetle, so parts can be brought over from that. It's a lot older than the Golf, so everything should be a lot simpler. It's local to us, too, so we wouldn't have to spend a whole weekend getting it. It's priced right at the $500 limit and I'm not sure how much we could get back from it in order to fix the metal and add longevity mods.
Also with the air cooled motor, how does that perform and what are people's experience with them? How hard is it to find parts for?