The 412 Clone: THE VW BRASILIA!!!!

DeathBus · Post by **DeathBus** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 6:41 am

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

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

ecdez · Post by **ecdez** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 9:32 am

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

DeathBus · Post by **DeathBus** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 10:39 am

WOW, is that thing air or water cooled?

sacem1 · Post by **sacem1** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 4:30 pm

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

ecdez · Post by **ecdez** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 4:32 am

Type 3 setup

DeathBus · Post by **DeathBus** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 4:49 am

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

ecdez · Post by **ecdez** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 5:38 am

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

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 10:27 am

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.