Hi everyone,
My name is Ryan as you can tell from my username, I'm 22, live in bolton and I have had my buggy project since I was 15. I'm a mechanic by trade, mainly repairing and MOT testing modern cars so it's always a nice change to work on older cars etc.
I've just recently signed up to the forum after having a couple of years away from the buggy scene. The purchase of my first home soaked up the buggy fund and I've had to spend all of my time fitting bathrooms, kitchens and doors rather than beach buggy bodies and parts! 

Anyway, My buggy has been virtually untouched for the last 3 years (time flies), but now I'm hoping to get back at it and order a body shell as soon as I recover from the cost of Christmas!
At the moment it's just a rolling chassis, 1971 from the frame head to the rear axle, 1973 beetle IRS rear end, and a 1954 king & linkpin front beam. A bit of a mixmatch but I'm told this delivers good handling?

I want to put a sidewinder body on, and keep it simple and classic with a 1600 twin port engine, original steering colour etc

I used to be on the old forum and had a lot of help from Krug and tucker217. I've also been to a few shows and seen some of your amazing buggies which inspired me a lot. Thanks again to krug and tucker123 who managed to put up with all my questions and queries when I knew nothing about building a buggy! Buggypete was a great help too by selling me his lovely wolf race slot mags that you can see below 

Here is where I am up to:





I also have a 1300 twin port engine that needs a rebuild and 1600 kit putting on

Thanks for reading, hopefully will see some of you at various shows next events this year!

Ps, anybody needing an mot in the north west area, give me a shout 

Welcome, welcome, welcome back to the fold, nice chassis looks like you got a great base to build on.

Cheers H

(For any other newbies looking in this is the perfect way to start your posts if you have piccys)

Welcome, looks like a really nice job on the chassis and well on the way to becoming a buggy. One piece of advise i must offer which I'm sure will be echoed by many other forum members. Before you go any further get rid of the red urethane steering coupling donut and use a genuine vw black one. The red ones split and break up, they are not safe. Once again welcome

Welcome back and it's really impressive where you have got to.

The Sidewinder is a good looking body - especially in yellow !

Welcome to the forum, great start with the pics and a bit of advice that might save your neck from a first post, impressive 

Well spotted Merscury
Here is the thread on those red steering couplings, only any good as coasters
http://www.beachbuggy.info/index.php/topic,3854.0.html

Welcome back to the scene, if you re upping your motor to 1600 you will need the heads machined to get them in or some 1600 heads.

Welcome aboard - and always great to see pictures on a first post   

Hello and welcome...

PM'd you

Welcome! Only 7 years - rapid by my standards  (a mere 33 years). Looking forward to seeing it done and on the road.

Thank you all for the warm welcome back!
Cheers for the tips too, il get a black steering donut on order asap, I had no idea the red ones had issues, in fact I thought they were the better ones 
Yep I knew about the heads, I briefly worked at Manchester air cooled so I've been around quite a few engine builds, but im sure il have plenty questions when I get around to building the engine. I'm actually thinking of getting the 1641 kit
I plan to get a blue metalflake body as my logbook says blue and I'm trying to avoid making any changes on the logbook 

welcome to the forum buddy glad you could catch up at last

Hello and welcome , nice looking project.