This extremely rare 1971 Roamer SportsVan is likely one of the finest examples on the road today, but it won't come cheap car auto cars
Unfortunately, VW pulled out at the last minute, citing liability issues, leading Brubaker to call it quits after trying to buy complete Beetles and tearing them down.
He only ever built three, but one of his investors, Mike Hansen, thought that the model could work as a kit, trading on the popularity of vans in the ’70s. They are officially known as the Automecca Roamer SportsVans, and appeared in TV shows like Ark II and movies like Soylent Green, but everyone continued to call them Brubaker Boxes.Although this is one of those later Roamer SportsVans, it remains quite rare.
Repainted in the original Jungle Green Metallic, it has a period-correct green shag carpet inside, brown vinyl lounge seating, an 8 track player, an Empi steering wheel, a barefoot throttle pedal, period-correct US Indy 4 lug slot mags, and more. Moreover, it is the only known example to have the optional in-dash ice chest/storage box.
At the rear, the SportsVan is powered by a new 1600 cc dual port flat-four engine with a new AS-41 engine case, a single-barrel carb, and a used four-speed manual transmission. One of a very small number of these in existence, it is riding a wave of renewed interest as, in 2019, a couple of entrepreneurs were looking to put these back into limited production .
This, then, is your opportunity to surf that wave of interest with an original example. For sale in California, you can track the restoration process on the Carcheology YouTube channel.
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