
Pay for a chassis, then fit the fiberglass frame over. Some companies sell pre-made dune buggies. For a classic dune buggy, you’re going to have to shorten the chassis by 14.5 inches. Purchase a buggy kit to reduce the amount of assembly required. DIY dune buggy kits can cost at least 2,000 and will typically include a chassis and a body frame. You’re looking for an affordable chassis with engine, suspension, and brakes. With all that power available at your disposal, you know this buggy was designed with. So keep in mind that the body will get junked.
Build your own dune buggy kits series#
The Stark made a bit of a splash back around 2013, when Smisek seems to have finished the first one, with plans to sell these as kits by 2014, plans that don’t seem to have actually come to fruition. Grab a friend and create your own Short Course Truck Racing Series CR12. Chirco has put together some package deals. The packaging is clever in a practical way, too: there’s storage up front, under the hood, and there also appears to be a rear compartment over the transaxle, as well as what looks like an actually useable back seat – something not common at all in most fiberglass dune buggy kits. If you have a good engine block, but everything else is not in the best shape, you have come to the right place.

Build your own dune buggy kits registration#
The very open and flared wheelarches evoke classic fiberglass dune buggy shapes, the door hand’s hemispherical indentation somehow reads very Volkswagen, the grille-less front end with the vaguely U-shaped indentation ever so slightly suggests a Baja Beetle’s blunt nose and hoodline, and yet the whole shape reads more pickup truck-like. At the bottom of this page you can click onto the link showing all the build kits required to self build the Vigilante SKX buggy, including registration for the road.

It feels modern, but has certain cues that still have a bit of old-school dune buggy/VW-ness, all without being even remotely retro. The final design is very clever and sleek, I think.
