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Black Betty - updated thurs 4th August

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Che Castro ankle straps

1,945 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#190416
Hey here's my new mini project. I bought it as an incomplete project. Just needs an interior and some assembly.

Its a 1960 body - resprayed in black. Its currently sitting on a semi auto pan which has been converted to manual. This will be soon be moving onto another pan which came with the project - its been blasted, resprayed, forks welded, manualised, front end rebuilt etc. Pics soon when i pick it up 😀

This is the interior, full of boxes of parts which i have to sort.

I will be selling a lot of this stuff soon.

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Che Castro ankle straps

1,945 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#190417
Got some Porsche telephone dials with it too!

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Che Castro ankle straps

1,945 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#190419
in the boot - has the latch style hood, with the early large gas cap with the Hump style tank

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twoguns simply aircooled

4,275 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#190423
some one lost interest, hey?
Simply Cruzin'...

Che Castro ankle straps

1,945 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#190424
My current ride - original stock '63.

He'll have to sit in the cold this winter whilst betty gets fixed 🙁

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Oasis Going alone...

1,806 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#190427
Where in Five dock are you?? You probably live next door...
"Tell him 'We've already got one'"

Che Castro ankle straps

1,945 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#190428
Here's a pic of the pan that came with the project

Its got a rebuilt front end, welded forks, stock disc front, EA falcon rear. Koni reds all round 🙂

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Che Castro ankle straps

1,945 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#190429
I'm just near barnwell golf course, down the road from Five dock leisure centre. Where are you abouts? What do u drive, probably seen u around a few times!
Jon

Oasis Going alone...

1,806 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#190432
I'm in Barnstaple rd near the main road, White Beetle in the Avatar
<<<<<<I usually park out the back of the house though... I'll look out for you
"Tell him 'We've already got one'"

tracash242 Officially Full-On Dubber

261 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#190441
im a type 2 kinda guy,but i would love to see more pics of this as it comes along,

Dannyboy half man , half horse

2,306 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·

#190703
Jon your Garage is a disgrace. Clean it up and you'll fit your other car in!!! Looks like a swap meet!!!

Dan🙂
"If i had to explain you wouldnt understand"

The Lower Class

Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,789 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#190853
Danny

He cleaned it up to get this in there
Futue te ipsum!!!

Alex Holzl 2332cc of pure BALLZ!!

1,550 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·

#190857
lol

ducky Believer in Buggyism

1,238 posts · joined Aug 2003 ·

#191497
sweeeeet ride keep us up to date
Baby Loves to Mumbo

wacked1 Custom Title Time!

1,508 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#191806
i like black betty:thumb
YOU HAVE JUST BEEN DAKED
don't worry it's a VW thing

Che Castro ankle straps

1,945 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#191927
Hehe, last night i attempted a clean up. But the garage still looks as dirty!!!except everything is sorted and i chucked out everything i dont want. Will be posting a few things for sale soon.

Hopefully should be able to get the good pan in sometime this week/end and swap the body over. There should be a Manualised semi-auto pan up for sale - its the one its sitting on now.

There's actually three cars now, my dad's Honda prelude (u can sorta see it in one of teh pics on the corner) will be parked outside to make way for the good pan 😀 hehe

Trying to organise and decide on an interior. Right now I am thinking of recovering the seats in VW brick red, to match new TMI doorpanels in brick red/ cream. Beige cloth headliner, no carpet (weighs too much!) - hope to get the front jap seats recovered in brick red vinyl to match as well.

I'm going to try to make my own rubber floor mats, unless i can source a good used set.
Jon

Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,789 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#192101
Jon

what about the other pan??????
Futue te ipsum!!!

Che Castro ankle straps

1,945 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#192445
Which one? 🙂

The one I was building up has been manualised and dipped and painted. Will be selling that.

The one it is sitting on in the photos will be for sale as soon as i swap the black body onto the good pan. It has been manualised too
Jon

Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,789 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#192767
s'cool

just had sherberts with Rich

got the story :beer
Futue te ipsum!!!

Bug_Crazed Grl Casual Dubber

47 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#193298
i like you're stock '63 😉

Che Castro ankle straps

1,945 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#193410
woo hoo

picked up the other pan this morning. also picked up the rear disc rotors that the previous owner had intended to put on the pan, they were 2 new DBA rotors in boxes still 🙂

Also picked up bundles of other stuff, 36hp generator and fan, old bits and pieces.

Anyway here's some slightly older pics of my Blue '63 - im actually off my P's now, was on them for 3 years 😀

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Che Castro ankle straps

1,945 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#203822
Last few weeks i've have gotten a few things done recently. Front end has had shock towers extended, upper arms bent, repainted and ready to rock. Rear end is setup

Last night was trying to get the doors off so i could drop them off at VVDS to get the hinge pins replaced with new threaded ones for the mirror (there are no threads in either existing one)

Here's some pics

Damn phillips screws got stuck, after about 44 years they rusted into their threads. at this point i swear i wanted to kill mr phillips! Lots of whacking and WD40'ing with a big no4 phillips and vice grips worked except on the LHS bottom. All four were stuck! The RHS only 2 were stuck. Damn phillips heads always round out too easily!



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