Parabéns! Aqui no Brasil temos muito orgulho desse período da nossa indústria! Infelizmente , Forças Ocultas do mercado mundial nos impede de termos um país industrializado. Todas tentativas e iniciativas de desenvolver nossos produtos são inexplicavelmete sufocados por algum motivo obscuro. Automóveis muito mais desenvolvidos com nossa própria tecnologia desapareceram ao longo dos anos.. Os anos 1980 foram os últimos capítulos de um povo orgulhoso e alegre que acreditava num futuro melhor para esta nação, que hoje está afundada em violência e escravizada pelo narco tráfico... Conheça a história das fabricas de automóveis Miura e Gurgel.
Temos muito orgulho desse período da nossa indústria! Infelizmente , Forças Ocultas do mercado mundial nos impede de termos um país industrializado. Todas tentativas e iniciativas de desenvolver nossos produtos são inexplicavelmete sufocados por algum motivo obscuro. Automóveis muito mais desenvolvidos com nossa própria tecnologia desapareceram ao longo dos anos.. Os anos 1980 foram os últimos capítulos de um povo orgulhoso e alegre que acreditava num futuro melhor para esta nação, que hoje está afundada em violência e escravizada pelo narco tráfico...
Parabéns! Aqui no Brasil temos muito orgulho desse período da nossa indústria! Infelizmente , Forças Ocultas do mercado mundial nos impede de termos um país industrializado. Todas tentativas e iniciativas de desenvolver nossos produtos são inexplicavelmete sufocados por algum motivo obscuro. Automóveis muito mais desenvolvidos com nossa própria tecnologia desapareceram ao longo dos anos.. Os anos 1980 foram os últimos capítulos de um povo orgulhoso e alegre que acreditava num futuro melhor para esta nação, que hoje está afundada em violência e escravizada pelo narco tráfico... Conheça a história das fabricas de automóveis Miura e Gurgel.
A couple of things about these cars. They are sometimes erroneously referred to as VWs outside of Brazil. But they are not. Puma was the brand. They just used VW mechanics. They were not related. VW just sold them the bits. But they also used Chevy. There is a larger front engine Puma model with a Chevy inline 6 and RWD. So calling it a VW Puma is wrong. 😉. Your car is a Puma GTI. Period. They are definitely not kit cars though. Even if they had to ship them to the U.S. in crates to go around legislation. They were a fully licensed manufacturer and the cars were made in assembly lines as any normal car. But they were hand made though. Limited production They are not supercars in Brazil. Sports cars. But definitely not supercars. You do find them as project cars. Not that hard actually. You find just the body shell, rolling chassis, beat up ones in need of restauration and LOTS of distastefully modified ones as well. The rare cars are the first generation ones, made between 1968-1975. With 1968-1970 being the most valuable. Followed by 71-72. And yet, the 1967 being very rare. But that is a different car. It has a front engine, FWD layout. They made it for only 1 year and then changed to the rear engine VW platform in 1968. The chassis is not just a straight VW chassis. They are shortened 25cm. From 1968-1975 it uses a shortened Karmann Ghia chassis. From 1976 on it uses the chassis of a VW air cooled hatchback produced only for the Brazilian market called Brasilia. This was a larger chassis, so the 1976 and on cars are wider because of that. Your car uses this chassis. As well as the taillights of the VW Brasilia. By the time your generation of Puma was made, the Puma GTI 1981-82, Puma was already in trouble. Recession in Brasil, plus the cars were losing any respect because of the archaic underpinnings. The VW underpinnings never earned them extra points and had always been a negative point since the beginning, with comments of underpowered. But what was at least adequate in the late 60s and 70s had become totally outdated by the late 70s and early 80s. The VW air cooled Pumas were getting humiliated at traffic lights by common front wheel drive hatchbacks and other simple cars. But the Pumas cost a lot more money in comparison. So Puma started looking at modernizing the car, and finally ditching the old VW bits and putting water cooled engines in the cars. But it was too late. The company got "sold" a couple of times and then in 1990, the Brazilian government finally made importing cars legal again in Brazil since the 50s. That finished the job of killing Puma. So the water cooled models are just the very last run from around 1988-1989 and very rare. Probably less than 30-40 cars all together were the new water cooled with larger and more modern bodies cars.
Parabéns! Aqui no Brasil temos muito orgulho desse período da nossa indústria! Infelizmente , Forças Ocultas do mercado mundial nos impede de termos um país industrializado. Todas tentativas e iniciativas de desenvolver nossos produtos são inexplicavelmete sufocados por algum motivo obscuro. Automóveis muito mais desenvolvidos com nossa própria tecnologia desapareceram ao longo dos anos.. Os anos 1980 foram os últimos capítulos de um povo orgulhoso e alegre que acreditava num futuro melhor para esta nação, que hoje está afundada em violência e escravizada pelo narco tráfico... (se vc não for brasileiro) Conheça a história das fabricas de automóveis Miura e Gurgel.
Parabéns! Aqui no Brasil temos muito orgulho desse período da nossa indústria! Infelizmente , Forças Ocultas do mercado mundial nos impede de termos um país industrializado. Todas tentativas e iniciativas de desenvolver nossos produtos são inexplicavelmete sufocados por algum motivo obscuro. Automóveis muito mais desenvolvidos com nossa própria tecnologia desapareceram ao longo dos anos.. Os anos 1980 foram os últimos capítulos de um povo orgulhoso e alegre que acreditava num futuro melhor para esta nação, que hoje está afundada em violência e escravizada pelo narco tráfico... Conheça a história das fabricas de automóveis Miura e Gurgel.
Lots in Canada (relatively). Canadian models were factory builds not kits.
Nos Brasileiros somos apaixonados por carro,igual ao futebol!❤
Temos muito orgulho desse período da nossa indústria! Infelizmente , Forças Ocultas do mercado mundial nos impede de termos um país industrializado. Todas tentativas e iniciativas de desenvolver nossos produtos são inexplicavelmete sufocados por algum motivo obscuro. Automóveis muito mais desenvolvidos com nossa própria tecnologia desapareceram ao longo dos anos.. Os anos 1980 foram os últimos capítulos de um povo orgulhoso e alegre que acreditava num futuro melhor para esta nação, que hoje está afundada em violência e escravizada pelo narco tráfico...
Great presentation of the history and your own car 👍. Kudos for keeping these alive outside Brazil!
My buddy has 2 of them both working and driveable hes got one hardtop one soft top.
lucky guy!
Hi I have a puma just as yours. I would like to know how to get the floor pans or at least the dimensions to reproduce them Thanks.
jose.vincenzo@hotmail.com
this is the guy in brazil that supplies all the puma parts
I have a GTC that is in full restoration. It is in a thousand pieces right now. If you get out to East Tennessee you will have to look me up.
Parabéns! Aqui no Brasil temos muito orgulho desse período da nossa indústria! Infelizmente , Forças Ocultas do mercado mundial nos impede de termos um país industrializado. Todas tentativas e iniciativas de desenvolver nossos produtos são inexplicavelmete sufocados por algum motivo obscuro. Automóveis muito mais desenvolvidos com nossa própria tecnologia desapareceram ao longo dos anos.. Os anos 1980 foram os últimos capítulos de um povo orgulhoso e alegre que acreditava num futuro melhor para esta nação, que hoje está afundada em violência e escravizada pelo narco tráfico... Conheça a história das fabricas de automóveis Miura e Gurgel.
22/5 22 Did Ford buy the Puma name used 25 years ago on their original Fiesta variant & latterly on their current European models ?
Slam it. Then stance it!! You know it'll look crazy badass!
Just do it and don't look back!
Lame
A couple of things about these cars. They are sometimes erroneously referred to as VWs outside of Brazil. But they are not. Puma was the brand. They just used VW mechanics. They were not related. VW just sold them the bits. But they also used Chevy. There is a larger front engine Puma model with a Chevy inline 6 and RWD. So calling it a VW Puma is wrong. 😉. Your car is a Puma GTI. Period.
They are definitely not kit cars though. Even if they had to ship them to the U.S. in crates to go around legislation. They were a fully licensed manufacturer and the cars were made in assembly lines as any normal car. But they were hand made though. Limited production
They are not supercars in Brazil. Sports cars. But definitely not supercars.
You do find them as project cars. Not that hard actually. You find just the body shell, rolling chassis, beat up ones in need of restauration and LOTS of distastefully modified ones as well. The rare cars are the first generation ones, made between 1968-1975. With 1968-1970 being the most valuable. Followed by 71-72. And yet, the 1967 being very rare. But that is a different car. It has a front engine, FWD layout. They made it for only 1 year and then changed to the rear engine VW platform in 1968.
The chassis is not just a straight VW chassis. They are shortened 25cm. From 1968-1975 it uses a shortened Karmann Ghia chassis. From 1976 on it uses the chassis of a VW air cooled hatchback produced only for the Brazilian market called Brasilia. This was a larger chassis, so the 1976 and on cars are wider because of that. Your car uses this chassis. As well as the taillights of the VW Brasilia.
By the time your generation of Puma was made, the Puma GTI 1981-82, Puma was already in trouble. Recession in Brasil, plus the cars were losing any respect because of the archaic underpinnings. The VW underpinnings never earned them extra points and had always been a negative point since the beginning, with comments of underpowered. But what was at least adequate in the late 60s and 70s had become totally outdated by the late 70s and early 80s. The VW air cooled Pumas were getting humiliated at traffic lights by common front wheel drive hatchbacks and other simple cars. But the Pumas cost a lot more money in comparison. So Puma started looking at modernizing the car, and finally ditching the old VW bits and putting water cooled engines in the cars. But it was too late. The company got "sold" a couple of times and then in 1990, the Brazilian government finally made importing cars legal again in Brazil since the 50s. That finished the job of killing Puma. So the water cooled models are just the very last run from around 1988-1989 and very rare. Probably less than 30-40 cars all together were the new water cooled with larger and more modern bodies cars.
well said and we’ll written it’s a lot like the coach built VWS in the fifties
we call them by the manufacture (hebmuller) not VW.
Parabéns! Aqui no Brasil temos muito orgulho desse período da nossa indústria! Infelizmente , Forças Ocultas do mercado mundial nos impede de termos um país industrializado. Todas tentativas e iniciativas de desenvolver nossos produtos são inexplicavelmete sufocados por algum motivo obscuro. Automóveis muito mais desenvolvidos com nossa própria tecnologia desapareceram ao longo dos anos.. Os anos 1980 foram os últimos capítulos de um povo orgulhoso e alegre que acreditava num futuro melhor para esta nação, que hoje está afundada em violência e escravizada pelo narco tráfico... (se vc não for brasileiro) Conheça a história das fabricas de automóveis Miura e Gurgel.
I just picked one up was wondering where you get parts
X2
@@jeffreyrodriguez8604 what’s x2??
You still need contacts for parts?
Does anybody make pumas body kits ?
Not as far as I'm aware
@@GTE_Channel thanks 👍🏻
@@antoniobadel4576 do you have a Puma?
1500 or 1600 Duel or single?
It's a single port mystery motor..
@@philatv supercar! Lol well it looks fast lol
Original they where all dualport double carbs. Early early cars where 1500, the rest 1600.