Hello NG! Happy New Year. The rustoration of my 1303 is still going strong. Got technical inspection today :-) Take a look at
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from Denmark....MichaelProgress for my 1303
Jan 02, 2005
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lookin' good
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">Den's> 1977 Puma Nice car. Did you built the kitkar by yourselv? Must have taken alot of time for all the details... bye MIC
The Puma was built in Brazil. About 20,000 were manufactured over the years using VW parts although they also used Chevrolet and Audi engines and built trucks also. They were first introduced in the 1964 paris Auto show. A couple of hundred were brought into this country semi-disassembled and sold as kit cars. Mine is a 1977. The VW wolfsburg museum in Germany has a gold one on display. The Puma factory was one of the few companies in the world that VW ever provided chassis and power trains to and warranted them to their final customers. When the company was sold for the second time and dissolved in the early
90's, Ford purchased the name and produced a front wheel , metal bodied, sporty car with the Puma name tag for a couple of years. I could write pages but I guess you get the idea. It is the sports car VW never built but liked a lot.href="
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Oh, I never realised there was a connection between the VW Puma and the Ford Puma! Ford also own the Ghia name.
Yes, the Ford connection goes back to the 60's when Ford brought legal action against the name" Puma" being used as they claimed it was theirs because "Puma" and "Cougar" are translated as the same word in Portuguese which is the language of Brazil. Ford lost, however, they did get their revenge 30 years later. Dennis
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