Big Yella. Home built VW Trike and Plans

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Since Sept 2006

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Build a VW trike like Big Yella.

How many times have you dreamt of owning and riding a custom made VW trike? A machine that stops people in their tracks. I had that dream.

It took a few months, a bit of determination, a lot of planning and some grease and dirt on the hands, but it's finished. And cost a lot less than a mass produced machine.

Phil Parry is my name and I'm a Technical Illustrator (with a Mech. Design background). After replacing the engine in my daughters '65 Beetle, I pondered what to do with the old *VW 1200 engine sitting on the garage floor. "A VW trike I'll build" thought I......so I did.

Using basic handyman tools in my home garage, the project involved frame construction, front-end design, hydraulics, fibre-glassing, painting, electrics, an engine rebuild, wrought iron and wood work, but the transformation of an old 1971 VW Beetle into a stunning VW trike was completed.

Anyhow, browse through the site and I hope you enjoy the pics. Hopefully you'll get some ideas and be inspired to build your own custom trike. Click here for 'A Serious Guide to Building a VW Trike'.

The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.....Thomas Alva Edison.

Classic VW 1600 engine

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*The irony is...the original 1200 engine was sold to a sheep shearer in the great Aussie outback and was never used in my VW trike.