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Grant Wager spent 10 months building his custom Fiat 126p<\/a>. The little car features a 126p body over a VW Beetle chassis\/floorpan. Grant shortened the floorpan 16 inches to fit the Fiat body. In the back of the car is a 1800 cc VW Type 4<\/a> flat-four paired to a Beetle manual transaxle with VW Bus axles. The fully independent suspension features a widened track of four inches in front and two inches in back. Grant also installed custom skid plates, tubular bumpers, and arches over the offroad tires. <\/p>\n

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Grant Wager spent 10 months building his custom Fiat 126p. The little car features a 126p body over a VW Beetle chassis\/floorpan. Grant shortened the floorpan 16 inches to fit the Fiat body. In the back of the car is a 1800 cc VW Type 4 flat-four paired to a Beetle manual transaxle with VW… Read More »Custom Fiat 126p with a VW Type 4 Motor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":129166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-350"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7565,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=7565","url_meta":{"origin":129158,"position":0},"title":"Fiat 126P with a 2.3 L H4","author":"swaptastic","date":"September 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This Fiat 126p was built in Poland and features a VW 2.3 L H4 engine. 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