It's a 1964 Beetle.
mechanical:
- 1500 single port, stock.
- front lowered w/ drop spindles, 3.5" narrowed beam,
- rear lowered 2/2 splines at the rear, notched spring plates
exterior:
- painted satin black, with custom mix red sides with fire red metal flake over the top. satin white scallops.
- britax ragtop
- whitewalls w/ hankooks on standard rims
interior:
- jvc hu with a pair of phoenix gold 4", a kicker amp and 10" sub
- ratty original interior.
- fuzzy dice!
lots of other little details, but that's the basics.
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Hey i'm Dan. Just realised i didn't have a thread in here 😉
Mine is a 64 Beetle. Pretty much stock apart from a 1500, and whitewalls. Oh, and the ragtop that's in it now.
edit - and the new paint!
it's a Britax one from the 70's apparently. I would've loved a weld-in one, but that's more effort and $$ that i cbf with - let alone tackle myself. And this is just a bolt in - nice and easy...well, 6 hrs easy.
cutting a hole is hard.
and pics of it installed.
and a few pics i took today.
and yes, i know - it needs to be slammed, let alone painted!
not a bad weekends' work - especially whenh it's coming up to summer
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64 Beetle. Like a beaten up 70's speedboat.
looks good mate, dont worry about the paint 😉 just slam that baby 😀😀😀 :bounce
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Looks great. What colour do plan to paint it? Did a good job on the sunroof. Are they hard to find?
Brendan.
I drive past it today... maaaaaaaaaaan, you gotta go the slaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamm!
...and Robert's ya father's brother...
Slaaaam slaaaaam - slamslamslam.
Good to see you followed my directions for fitting the roof.
Forgot to give you your free sunscreen with the clip! LOL:thumb
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This is the plan:
LOL @ sunscreen. The jigsaw idea was a very good one. i had to hack a bit more from a couple of spots at the front with an angle grinder, but apart from that was all good. Cheers again 🙂
And yeah, i know it needs to be lower. Just have do decide how to do it (adj beam/drop spindles/both) and have the money!
64 Beetle. Like a beaten up 70's speedboat.
Looks sweet mate. Thanks for the install pics.
where do u get these rag top kits from? can u still get em brand new? who supplies em? how much $?
especially a bolt in kit...
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i got it from BUGBOY - it's a 70's Britax one - who don't exist anymore apparently. But that's the reason i got it - it was bolt-in 🙂
64 Beetle. Like a beaten up 70's speedboat.
love the mockup - esp the white highlight on the door.. DO IT. All you need is an adj beam, or just a beam that has had it's torsoni bar mounts turned the right amount for a ... hmmmm 3.5 inch drop by the looks of your bug.. then you just take the rear torsion bars out of the back and install them again a couple splines down! Viola! slamm city!
...and Robert's ya father's brother...
Ok, who's the poor sucker that's going to help me do it while i watch? 😉
Seriously, soon though. When i stop spending money on my other car. *rollseyes*
64 Beetle. Like a beaten up 70's speedboat.
the roof looks great and your colour sceam with those scollops on the side will look #1:thumb
I'll supervise.
Click the Beetle
a few new pics. thought i'd better paint it as i'm taking it interstate this weekend and wanted a little less attraction from the locals up there. new parcel shelf is visible in one of them.
actually looks a lot better now it's almost one color lol
64 Beetle. Like a beaten up 70's speedboat.
certainly looks less ratty.. I saw you turn into Orban Rd - i was at the servo in my invisible Civic, otherwise, you probably would've seen me if I had the bug... looking good man..
...and Robert's ya father's brother...
Will be wicked when it's painted the red and black! :P
new pic:
trip to canberra and back, stopping along the way
Then my t-bar bumpers arrived, so had to wash all the bugs off the car...you've no idea how weird it felt to wash primer LOL
And finally have made a numberplate bracket so that it's not held on with a bumper bracket stuffed throught the horn grille and held on with green tie wire hehe
64 Beetle. Like a beaten up 70's speedboat.
Saw you today. Had to give a 'punch-buggy' to the wife, she was too slow.
The sun roof looks hot.
Love one for my beetle.
Also that colour plan look sweet can't wait to see the final job. 🙂
Richard
Looks great as is, but love the plan.
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Nice lowering job. I really need to get around to doing that.
And i must've missed the Helbus! But i keep seeing bay windows everywhere.
64 Beetle. Like a beaten up 70's speedboat.
We were in the KOC beetle 🙂
yeah stick to that plan ,its perfect
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saw it in the flesh today looking good nice to meet you:thumb
A candy coloured clown they called the sandman tip toes through my room every night just to sprinkle stardust on my pillow go to sleep everything will be allright
1967 Type 3 square
1956 double door panel
1968 single cab kombi
Hey Dan, forget the paint, just dump it and be done! Looks great in grey primer, and the ragtop is sweet.
i'm actually thinking of raising it even higher now :p
64 Beetle. Like a beaten up 70's speedboat.
what kind of mirrors are those? I've never seen 'em...dont tell me theyre another cool Aussie Only item we in the States cant get
they're actually for a motorbike!
Wanted a pair of something in that sort of style, and ended up getting them off ebay
64 Beetle. Like a beaten up 70's speedboat.
Hey Voodoo, what are you doin posting over here in these parts mate.
