---
title: "For Sale: Mini ‘Funtastik’ Chevy Camaro Built on a Shorty VW Frame"
description: "There are kit cars, and then there's this."
date: "2020-05-07"
modified: "2020-05-07"
authors:
  - name: "James Gilboy"
    job_title: "Contributing Writer"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/james-gilboy"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/33341/for-sale-mini-funtastik-chevy-camaro-built-on-a-shorty-vw-frame"
categories:
  - "Builds"
  - "Culture"
  - "For Sale"
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Chevrolet"
  - "vintage"
---

# For Sale: Mini ‘Funtastik’ Chevy Camaro Built on a Shorty VW Frame

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Part of the appeal of muscle cars can be summed up in a single, simple word: *Big*. There's just something about a colossal V8, a supercharger protruding up from the hood, and tires wider than [your tush](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/16008/robotic-butt-built-by-ford-europe-to-test-fiesta-seat-wear>) that satisfies the four-year-old in all of us. Accordingly, their extreme proportions make them prime candidates for caricatures, be they cartoony self-portraits airbrushed under the hood, or actual, pint-sized pony cars, like the Chevrolet Camaro-inspired "Funtastik" kit car you see here.

![message-editor%2F1588863224463-00p0p\_dtjnsd1fvyg\_1200x900.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1588863224463-00p0p_dtjnsd1fvyg_1200x900.jpg>)
*Funtastik Camaro Kit Car, *Craigslist**

Briefly produced in the early 1970s by a company called KAR Manufacturing, the Funtastik was a kit car based on the pan of [a Volkswagen Type 1 Beetle](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/28956/que-sera-sera-on-site-in-mexico-for-the-vw-beetles-final-goodbye>). It had a fiberglass, Camaro-lookalike body, and according to a sales brochure, fully removable doors. The example you see here, which is currently listed for sale on [Craigslist](<https://web.archive.org/save/https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/d/otis-orchards-vw-mini-camaro-project-car/7111971140.html>) in Seattle, lacks those, presumably due to its shortened frame—note how much stouter this car looks compared to the Funtastik in the brochure below.

![message-editor%2F1588864464254-custom-1972-kar-camaro-z28-mini-replica-dune-buggy-other-13.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1588864464254-custom-1972-kar-camaro-z28-mini-replica-dune-buggy-other-13.jpg>)
*Funtastik Camaro Kit Car, *TopClassicCarsForSale**

Said frame is advertised as being rusty, potentially signaling a need for replacement. [Cutting a second Beetle pan](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/32079/turn-your-vw-beetle-into-an-adorable-pickup-truck-with-this-3000-kit>) down to fit this modified kit car body would take a lot of effort, but it'd let you move the body over to a Beetle frame with a registered VIN, as this car is being sold without a title, and may not be street-legal. Foregoing manual labor and just puttering around private property isn't an option, either, as this car's seller says it doesn't run, meaning your $3,200 (or best offer!) is buying you [a project car](<https://www.thedrive.com/tech/32834/now-is-the-time-to-finish-your-project-car>).

![message-editor%2F1588865018050-00e0e\_ckkobg8z0q9\_1200x900.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1588865018050-00e0e_ckkobg8z0q9_1200x900.jpg>)
*Funtastik Camaro Kit Car, *Craigslist**

And if you're going in on a project, you may as well go ham by jamming the turbo flat-four from a Subaru WRX STI into it, as [people often do with Beetle resto-mods](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/27036/fall-in-love-with-this-volkswagen-super-beetle-with-a-377-hp-subaru-boxer-engine>). Sure, a car this small with this short of a wheelbase, so much weight out back, and 300-some horsepower would need a wheelie bar not to buck it occupants out on a hard launch, but is there a funnier mental image than this shrimp Camaro popping a comical wheelie? You know, aside from Hulk Hogan [on a draisine](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/33326/show-us-a-more-dangerous-vehicle-than-this-motorized-railroad-chair>)? Didn't think so.

![Funtastik Camaro Kit Car](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1588865037566-00e0e_2dpspvrhwvl_1200x900.jpg>)
*Funtastik Camaro Kit Car*

*, *Craigslist**

![Funtastik Camaro Kit Car](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1588865045224-00w0w_cpf0hwxjst4_1200x900.jpg>)
*Funtastik Camaro Kit Car*

*, *Craigslist**

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h/t: [*Barn Finds*](<https://barnfinds.com/quirky-kit-car-funtastik-vw-mini-camaro/>)

## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/jamesgilboy>)