I've put this in the tech section but I'll whack it here too.
Having got a good look at the garage sale beetle, the rust between body & roof is irepairable.
So I must build a hot axe convertable. I've never really had time for the fakes, but, if I lose the roof I lose 60% of the rust. Common sense says this is the way to go.
Therefore, I need the wisdom of anyone who has done it, & importantly, I need to hear from those who have fucked it up!
Especially if you know where you went wrong.
I need to know all the ins & outs.
I imagine you only get one shot, so I need to get it right.
Means the roof rack I have had in the shed for 8 months, stay there a bit longer......😎
[Edited on 13-11-2004 by Spook]
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
Hell yeah...go the Gas-axe:thumb
Thats just plain bad news... :duh
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Hey spook did you buy a beetle at a garage sale?
Mitchell
23 windows ...8 too many!
Yes, I got it at a garage sale.
As for it being bad news. Are you talking about the car or the roof rack?
I, personally, don't care for the axe jobs. But in the end it won't be my car & the boy seems stoked that it will be topless.
I just don't want it to end up a hit & miss affair.
[Edited on 14-11-2004 by Spook]
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
do a hot rod chopped front windscreen and semi cover in the back seats like the hebmuller and smooth it all out. kinda means u cant even have a vinyl roof either though but will look shit hotter then a sardine can........
fun !
I know I've mentioned this idea before but if you successfully cut off the roof and the body is sufficiently strengthened, cut down the windscreen and somehow fit a chopped roof- it could even be made to be removable
Bazza
what about a carson style roof?
there's a how to on them on the
www.volksrods.com website
seen it done before and it looked trick
😉They got some beasts on that site Pete & that roof idea seems like a good one.
But still no one's told me if there's a right or wrong way to go about this.
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
try and find out what extra panels they put in karmahn ragtops. that might help.
Alternatively, if you're feeling real brave. Separate the pan from the body. Cut the heating ducts out from under the car. Replace them with thick wall square steel tube and put diagonal braces around the bottom edges of the doors. Should be stiff as all hell then. The tube can double as roll bar mounting points as well.
While you are there you could remove an inch or two from the bottom of the body or even channel the pan. Then dump the suspension and the seats. As for the windscreen frame, make up something like a factory convertable frame but cut is down an inch or two. 😎
that plus a carson style roof would be awesome. :thumb
Talk to an engineer first but it all should be legal.
[Edited on 14-11-2004 by pete wood]
give it some of this style. 😉
that thing is beautiful!!!!
frenzix might have a point :o
im doing a body change at the moment cause my bug was not well
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Certainly fucking cheaper than what's being suggested........😠
I'm helping my son build his first car, not going for best of show first time out.
And there's also the minor point that what is legal overseas, will never see the road in NSW.
[Edited on 14-11-2004 by Spook]
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
http://www.aussieveedubbers.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=25214
this is mine its not quite up to body swap yet but is getting there
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
the chaos project - click me
That's a tad more ratshit than what I've got.
The body I've got, for the most part, is straight & in reasonable condition.
The problem is that the rust in what used to be the gutter has got to the point where the roof is seperate from the body above the right rear side window. Then goes in toward the centre of the car so that there is not enough of the roof to weld it back together. So a chop is the go.
I've tried to post a pic but it's too big.
May have to get onto the RTA to find out what's what.
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
Spook wrote:Certainly $%*
@ing cheaper than what's being suggested........
😠
[Edited on 14-11-2004 by Spook]
sorry to be the one to tell you spook, but anything requiring a engineer's certificate is gonna cost something.
🙁
having said that, if you do all the work yourself, you will cut the cost down by heaps.
😉
p.s. don't use a gas axe to cut the roof off, they make a real mess. :puke
use the really thin grinder cutting wheels or an electric hacksaw. Both of these are heaps more precise.
a body swap doesnt require a engineers if its the same year model so all it will cost you is another body
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
the chaos project - click me
any other photos !
choose your colour.
[Edited on 16-11-2004 by vwtyp2]
where'd you find those pics?
It is the same car before he sprayed it green!
Keeping it real !
Nah, you don't say :P
looks better black 😎
Never was using an oxy, that's just a phrase.
Electic hack saw. Is that one of them things looks like a jigsaw mated with a jack hammer? They look like good fun.
Everything will be done in the shed so the cost will stay down. The cutting I'll do myself & a mate of mine welds by the tinny, so I see a major consumption of alcohol........😉
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
Never was using an oxy, that's just a phrase.
Electric hack saw. Is that one of them things looks like a jigsaw mated with a jack hammer? They look like good fun.
Everything will be done in the shed so the cost will stay down. The cutting I'll do myself & a mate of mine welds by the tinny, so I see a major consumption of alcohol........😉
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
😎 you'll be fine, just talk to an engineer first 😉
