{"id":2195,"date":"2015-04-09T14:10:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T18:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2017-01-11T12:43:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T17:43:08","slug":"race-taxi-update-a-vw-bus-with-a-porsche-tt-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=2195","title":{"rendered":"Race Taxi Update: A VW Bus With A Porsche TT Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After doing some spring cleaning on the site I ran across an old article<\/a> we did on the 1962 VW Bus with a 420 horsepower Porsche 993 twin-turbo engine. I wondered if it was still around since a lot of projects are sold or worse are wrecked and you never hear from them again. After visiting their Facebook page I was please to see the VW Bus is still doing well and still races. Its most recent being some laps around Lydden Hill Race Circuit in early February.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong> 4-26-15: I found a Speedhunters article<\/a> with a lot of details and photos published in 2013<\/p>\n

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Source: FB1 Race-Taxi Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After doing some spring cleaning on the site I ran across an old article we did on the 1962 VW Bus with a 420 horsepower Porsche 993 twin-turbo engine. I wondered if it was still around since a lot of projects are sold or worse are wrecked and you never hear from them again. After… Read More »Race Taxi Update: A VW Bus With A Porsche TT Engine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bus"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130504,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=130504","url_meta":{"origin":2195,"position":0},"title":"1966 VW Bus with a 509 ci Cadillac V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"April 16, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Bodo Reichert spent 10 years building a custom 1966 Volkswagen Bus called the \"Rocket Bus\". 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