lou0060 wrote:haha getting too old to drive that far in the old girl, plus my other old girl is coming with me so she insists on flying....
funny enough my Ghia has been to DOVW in 88, 89, 90 and 91 before we moved back to Sydney..
will have owned her for 30 years in January 2016.....
I'll be hanging around the VWDub stand with Boris and Michael just ask for me there..... or around the swap area.....
Cool car to have had that long!
I will come to the show for a look and learn. I don't know anyone from on here, so look for the guy in a Subaru hat with his son with him! haha!
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So I spent today in the garage removing the driveshafts from the spare gearboxes. I still have one that I can not get the driveshaft nut loose as the gearbox is not in the car so no real helpful weight on my side! ggrr!!!. Will have to work on that one. Pretty cool setup on how the shafts stay in the gearbox and all that. I have had a good look at the 2 front suspensions and can see why the ball joint setup wont work. Are the calipers for the brakes any use when I put discs on it? I was reading the owners instruction manual and found out my VW is a delux model. my wife thought that was funny as it has no features, how rude. She did like the fact it should have snow flake tail lights as we ski as much as we can, so gives us a link to the car with that too! My son later on when he was in the car, asked if it had air conditioning! haha
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aircon is the qtr windows harasn
deluxe did have special seat covers, 2 inside sun visors, self cancelling blinkers and a windscreen washer system with 2 speed wipers
that's deluxe for 1960 !!
oh and wheel trims called beauty rings !!
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Snowflakes often come up cheaper in the USA so keep an eye out on thesamba.com !
🙅 plus 30% now due to low Aussie $$
plus postage
plus waiting 🙄
is not cheaper this year...👍
want any vw bits old but like me, Made in Germany!!!
adlbeetle66 wrote:Snowflakes often come up cheaper in the USA so keep an eye out on thesamba.com !
Even just looking on the different versions of ebay, I am amazed at all the stuff you can still get for the vw. My car has come with a steel sun visor over the windscreen. Was this an option? I have only seen mesh ones previously!
I am on holidays for 6 weeks next year in the usa and Canada. Might have a look around at what I can post back!!! Any suggestions?
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1500 vw stores in Cali
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bushed wrote:1500 vw stores in Cali
wow! Any suggestions of the 1 or 2 I check out?
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notbeen there yet
have my own stash...avail to you now. lol
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You'll pick up a few things on Sunday I am sure!
yep the sun visor was a dealer option. I actually have a mesh one still in the plastic bag and with the VW label and part number.....
see you on Sunday...
1971 karmann ghia Cabrio - Cruising 👍
1963 beetle Sunroof - gathering dust 🥲
1968 race beetle - twin turbo Subaru - stress relief 😁
1960 beetle - old school low & slow 😏
So I went to the DoVW. Was very interesting. My son and I spent a couple of hours walking around and talking to a few people that jumped on us as soon as we were looking at their cars! haha! I did not find where you guys were all hanging out, as I was to busy looking at everything! I have never been much of a car show guy, but it certainly is different when you own one of what your looking at! I was surprised at the amount of not restored or deliberately aged cars! It has certainly helped us decide what we want to do with our car.
Can someone tell me what the big barrels are on the side doors, some sort of heater accessory? Cant see out the door window with it on! I don't want one, just want to know what they are.
So the plan is to restore the car mostly by our selves as best we can. Keep it looking as original as possible, without being silly. I will upgrade the brakes to discs all round, engine to be a basically standard but rebuilt 1600tp motor and put a small turbo on it. Was originally thinking a bigger sized engine without a turbo, but gets a bit expensive in parts when not standard pistons etc. I have been reading so much on these cars its not funny, Wife thinks I am obsessed! haha! want to make the right decisions!
One concern I have is the seats. As you can see from the photos the tops are a green/blue colour with white/cream on the sides, with the door cards matching. I have checked the TMI website and any other web site that I can find, to see if I can get replacement covers, I have not seen anything the same. Is it because its an Australian built one? I saw 2 cars at the show with the same seats as mine, one was in worse condition than mine, the other looked like new but the door cards were a different colour to mine. Any suggestions? I deal with blackmans leather through work, so I could get them to make some up, but that would cost heaps more! So much to learn!!
One last thing, where is the best place to get a workshop manual for my car, will it be the same as the overseas manuals?
Sorry for the long post, but this is fun and I have not even touched the car yet! haha!
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The window thing is probably a Thermador Car Cooler. They were a US accessory for cooling cars without any power input. They used a mesh cloth and a water bath. As the airflow mooved through the cooler at speed, the wet cloth would evaporate and cool the air, which was then directed into the car.
The Aussie 1960 model is practically identical, mechanically, to the Euro/US model, so any Bentley/Haynes/Clymer manual will be fine. Only from 1965-68 were there significant differences. The Aussie manuals were published by Scientific Publications / Gregory's - these often come up on Ebay. Here's a new one, but sometimes older (cheaper) ones are also listed:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Gregorys-Owners-Service-Repair-Manual-Volkswagen-Beetle-1100-1500-1954-1971-/201127026706?hash=item2ed41ae012:m:mpuPNdiqXhGOQQ7DWaQUEBgPhil74Camper wrote:The window thing is probably a Thermador Car Cooler. They were a US accessory for cooling cars without any power input. They used a mesh cloth and a water bath. As the airflow mooved through the cooler at speed, the wet cloth would evaporate and cool the air, which was then directed into the car.
The Aussie 1960 model is practically identical, mechanically, to the Euro/US model, so any Bentley/Haynes/Clymer manual will be fine. Only from 1965-68 were there significant differences. The Aussie manuals were published by Scientific Publications / Gregory's - these often come up on Ebay. Here's a new one, but sometimes older (cheaper) ones are also listed:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Gregorys-Owners-Service-Repair-Manual-Volkswagen-Beetle-1100-1500-1954-1971-/201127026706?hash=item2ed41ae012:m:mpuPNdiqXhGOQQ7DWaQUEBg
So like an evaporative cooler like we have on houses these days.
Thanks for the info on the owners manual!
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Yes, or you may hear the term 'Swamp Cooler' made in the brand KoolAir
adlbeetle66 wrote:Yes, or you may hear the term 'Swamp Cooler' made in the brand KoolAir
Swamp Cooler just sounds healthy doesn't it! haha! Did a search and there are heaps of them you can get from the olden days! I am amazed I had never seen one!
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