This looks like an interesting site for frankenbuggy builds.
http://www.protodie.com/930-cv-live-...lete_p_47.html This is only $775. But I may be able to do it for a couple hundred in materials. I saw someone build a box to hold the center section of a rear end, (Suburu?).
The price might be doable as long as the rest of the items left to do aren't crazy expensive, (like the engine). I'd love to spend 5k and get the whole rear end with reverse, but then I might as well build a sand rail.