Love it or hate it, this is my pride and joy!!
1969 VW Beetle
Paint - Commodore VE Red Hot and House of Kolour Silver/White marble.
Front Bumper - Customized VX Commodore with mesh and inserts.
Front Gaurds - Steel with custom headlight assembly.
Bonnet - Steel with custom vent, alloy hinges with gas struts, handle removed.
Doors - Modified for 1 piece window, BMW mirrors with indicators.
Skirts - Carrera fibreglass skirts-shaved,narrowed and extended with checkerplate tops.
Rear Gaurds - Steel, widened 1 inch, clear tailights with led bulbs.
Rear Bumper - Carrera fibreglass, smoothed.
Rear Boot - Fibreglass aero tail with bi-level wing and brakelight, venting and mesh.
Interior
Autotechnica Monza Bucket seats and 4 point harness.
Custom Rear single seat designed for baby seat.
Isotta Evoluzion steering wheel.
Custom stell dash with Billet alloy speedo and gauge cluster - fuel, tacho, oil temp.
Custom door cards with billet handle and winders.
Full re-trim in black carpet.
Autotechnica gear knob, handbrake and pedals.
Stainless Scuff Plates.
Custom billet rear vision mirror.
Sound System
Pioneer DEH P1Y head unit
Pioneer 12 disc stacker
2 x Rockford Fosgate amplifiers on custom 'Rear door' cards.
Focal 3 way splits in custom kick panels with tweeters in alloy housing on A pillar.
2 x 12" Boston Pro Series Subwoofers inverted in sealed enclosures with 4 ga power wire (good for 137 db).
Optima Blue Battery with Rockford terminals and fuses.
Car totally rewired using a "Painless" wiring kit.
Engine
1835cc Type 1
Twinport heads, ported and polished
Mild cam
Stainless valves and hardened seats
Twin Dellorto Carbs
Electronic Fuel Pump
Porsch alternator and fan assy, fibreglass engine shroud.
External oil filter and cooler.
Bosch 009 dizzy with compufire electronic ignition, bosch solid coil, translucent red dist cap, top gun leads.
Billet alloy pulleys with tensioner.
Billet alloy oil filler.
Truehaft alloy rocker covers.
Urethane engine and g/box mounts.
S/S firewall.
Monza thunderbird exhaust.
Lightened flywheel.
Suspension
Torsion bar front end, narrowed 2 inches, height adjusters fitted.
IRS rear end.
KYB gas Shocks.
Whiteline 16mm front swaybar.
Slotted VW Front disc rotors with Type 3 callipers, EBC greenstuff pads.
Slotted custom 1 piece rear rotors with Porsch 914 callipers.
Stud pattern 5 x 114.3 (Ford)
Wheels - Vault Krystal 17 x 6.5 - 205/45 tyres on front. 18 x 7.5 - 245/40 tyres on rear.
I finsihed the car late 2007, so far the tally is 19 trophies from 7 shows! I am proud as punch as I have done 90% of the work myself and absolutely love how it's turned out. I realize it is not to everyones liking and everyone is entitled to their opinion. But I do hope these pics and stats help out anyone looking for ideas or inspiration. Thanks.
well executed.
Any plains on some more HP? That way you can justify the look a little more.
that is shit hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well done
Fucking AWESOME
Click the Beetle
Inspirational
1959 Mercedes Benz 190
1963 Chevrolet Corvair
1969 BMW 2002 Auto
1973 Mercedes Benz 230.6
welcome to the forum,
must say the work you have out into your car is fantastic
I saw your car at jamboree in 2007 must of been soon after you finished your car.
love the pictures of your car near the beach, great work
jess
Well Done !
Keeping it real !
Yep - not 100% my choice but 11/10
I like what you have done
Nice to see some one do some thing different
👍
Futue te ipsum!!!
RBS79 wrote:I finsihed the car late 2007, so far the tally is 19 trophies from 7 shows! I am proud as punch as I have done 90% of the work myself and absolutely love how it's turned out. I realize it is not to everyones liking and everyone is entitled to their opinion. But I do hope these pics and stats help out anyone looking for ideas or inspiration. Thanks.
Mate you should be very proud of your efforts, an exceptional job.
It is great to see people still going in their own direction and not dioing a run of the mill strip and paint.
Some great ideas and the front bumper looks like it was meant to be there.
Hope to see it in the flesh some day
Brad
Why copy when you can own an original ?
Meyers Manx AustraliaWell done mate, excellent job!
Different styles are what make the scene interesting! Sweet ride. Keep us updated.
woah! are you sure thats a bug under there and not Darth vaders transformer cousin?🥷😂
but yeah looks fantastic man, totally agree with Brad ^^ 👍
WoW!
Awesome effort to build a car that is so unique,and such a high build quality.
Thats what makes Volksys so good, you can make them any style you want.
westi wrote:That's mad Alan.
now if that were a real intercooler up front that would be something 🙂
top job
It looks great, it reminds me of those tuff little Aussie Racing cars.
Does it go as good as it looks????
Well done.
😂🤪😂🤪😂
car forums. where a lot of peoples good intentions end up taking a good old car off the road forever never ever to see the road again. 🥲
Thank you so much everyone!!! And thank you Jess for the photos from Jambo 2007. Yes it was finished off only the week before, gotta love late nights. LOL. Took out "Top Body Kit" that day so very pleased. Photos you mentioned by the beach were part of a "Hot 4's and performance cars" magazine shoot. It featured in issue 168.
Hoping to meet you all at Dubs by the Pub.
makes my effort on the 56 look half assed
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
great work 👍
Lovely! I really look forward to seeing it at dubs at the pub.
Crazy, I like it for some reason.
So the rear seat setup is for the baby seat.mmmmmm
Hope the baby has earplugs with that soundsystem.lol
Luv it..
not my usual choice, but what you have done really works for some reason
congratulations
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love it or hate it,you would have to be an idiot not to appreciate the hours that have been put in.
as long as your happy who cares about everyone else,thanks for sharing.great work.
down sharon.
yeah, it's not to everyones taste, but the quality of what you have done looks excellent. You obviosly have good fabricating / metalworking skills.... Well done.
good to see new ideas so well executed -the front treatment of the headlights & bumper looks great - & certainly threatening in anybodys rear vision mirror - well done
Please, I need drivers side window regulator (winder mechanism) for my '54
