Location: Melbourne
Year: 1974
Make: Volkswagen
Model: Kalita
Engine Type: 4 Cylinder
Transmission: Manual
Odometer Reading: 56393 Miles Showing
Body Type: Buggy
VIN / Chassis: V810890P Unsighted
Engine Number: D0269018
Exterior Colour: Red
Interior Colour: Black
Tightly held and rarely offered for sale.
Single family ownership for 50 years.
Well loved and maintained. Driven regularly on full Victorian registration (sold unregistered).
Fun car perfect for a Sunday drive or down the beach.
Good luck finding another one.
Devised in the early/mid ‘70s by J & S Fibre Glass in Sydney where period producers of Volkswagen Beetle based beach buggies. The Kalita was designed to be an affordable and practical road-going sports car by company boss Jeff Simmonds. Based on J & S’ beach buggy, the Kalita sports car used a full-length (rather than shortened) Beetle mechanical platform, on which was attached a neat fibreglass body that incorporated a Triumph Stag like T-top roof hiding a built-in steel rollbar. Along with side intrusion bars and integrated bumpers front and rear, the Kalita was both stronger and with more room on the longer wheel base, more spacious and better equipped than your regular beach buggy. Unlike beach buggies too, the rear-mounted engine was hidden by full bodywork with the exhaust exiting through the rear bumper, giving the Kalita a more sporty, stylish, integrated appearance, though there was no hiding its origins. Kalitas generally used 1200 or 1300cc flat four engines and other standard VW mechanicals, with upgrades to engines, suspension and brakes, according to owner preferences and budgets. Reports are contradictory about the Kalita’s availability, some claiming that J & S would only build complete cars, others that it was available in kit form in two levels, the basic “Constructa” or the more advanced “Assembler.” Either way, it is not known how many were produced.
This vehicle is located in our facility in Melbourne, for further information please contact Dave Hosking 0474 182 002 or Jason Todd 0400 321 919.
To protect your investment vehicle bidders should consider at a minimum replacement of fuel, oil, fluids, filters and thorough brake inspection as vehicles may have been stationary for some time. Vehicles are sold as is off the floor – unregistered. Please check photos carefully for vehicle condition. No warranty expressed or implied, sold with all or any faults, and where applicable sold with Australian Government Import Approval. NC14
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