bugking wrote:Yeah camo thats cool. maybe abit lower.
this is the look im after, with empi 5 spokes. does any one know the owner? - they read my mind!
hey thats my beetle,i lowered it even more
Painted the 58 in the garage on the weekend, and i'm very happy with the result. So much so that i'm not going to recycle the old nuts and bolts! a call to Vintage will fix that issue. The next step is to put in a new beam and reassemble the jigsaw asap, without a careless srcewdriver causing any damage!
Excuse the rubbish quality of the photos but you get the idea. I'll take some in the daylight on the weekend.
and then..
Hey Trickysimon, small world! seems everyone i talk to lately has a beetle! turns out even my boss at work has one. Love to go for a cruise when shes done. Is there a vw club in wagga?
Yeh there is a local club. I keep forgetting to join it though
😂
http://www.geocities.com/riverina_vwclub/
Car looks great btw!
👍well after many late nights the front end is together, with new beam, steering arms and tierods. just need to sort out the wheel alignment and bonnet geometry, it doesn't quite lock.
but here's the pictures we all want to see.
looks great man that beam looks good enough to eat! 😎
i wouldnt suggest doing that...
just wondering, how much paint did you end up using and what was the cost? i had thought of painting mine in the same colour but the cost of 4 litres of the platinum grey was close to $700
I used Debeers paints/Octoral ( from Holland ) from the local ford dealer.
Octoral primer 3ltr $70.
Code D7X / 2R2R, 4ltr base colour $258
hardener 1ltr $29.
Octoral clear coat 5ltr $90
Octoral clear hardener 2.5ltr $48
All up including sandpaper and plastic etc cost around $650
Still got about 1 ltr of base coat left and 2ltr of clear. Hindsight would tell me to use another litre of primer and not have large sections of old red oxide primer, because it had a bad reaction in places, which had to be resanded. Overall it is a really good garage job, which is what i wanted for a daily, but it wont win any prizes at a show!.
It was a great learning experience for next time.....oval!
thats interesting, the price i got was for the 4L of base coat only, no clear which was another $200+
car looks the goods too, its such a nice colour on an old beetle
hey kingsley, from one backyard spray painter to another....nice job!
yes there is a small but keen local club, mainly social outings on a sunday plus the odd cruise to nationals or DOVW etc
http://www.vdubber.com/groups/orca/topic/--2009-06-08.htm
contact me if you want details
phil
ps that colour is saying nice wheels and slam me.
vwrallycar wrote:thats interesting, the price i got was for the 4L of base coat only, no clear which was another $200+
car looks the goods too, its such a nice colour on an old beetle
yeah paint prices can be extreme. glasurit quoted me $2000 for primer, base and clear! which is fine if you have a show car. i guess debeers isn't considered a high quality paint, but it was easy to apply and nice and shiny.
It took an hour to get out, only 10mins to put back in!
The 58 went to the mechanic today to get a roadworthy done. Hopefully there aren't and dramas and i can finally take her for a drive in a week or two.
here are some of the latest pics
not sure if i want to put the over riders on....
Can't wait to see this around town 👍
Betty the beetle, as she has become known, got her number plates today.
I have to relearn how to drive a manual again, and how to drive a beetle aswell !
Im guessing it's normal to have such along time between changing gears, it's been awhile since I have driven one.
otherwise it is a pleasure to drive, for a car that hasn't been driven for 15 years.....
Ill post some better pics later on
Nice work mate.....that is really looking the goods!! Well done!
that is very cool man congrats!
paint looks schwwwwwweeeeet! 👍
I recently moved house to Nowra, so it was a perfect chance to take Betty for a roadtrip. I only planned to nurse her along at 80kmph since she hasn't been driven for years. But she wanted to sit happilly on 100! Until a slight upwards gradient that is, 90-80-70-60, then back down the hill, 70-80-90-100. Beetles' are fun aren't they!
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looks killer man! nice photos
ROAD TRIP!!!!!! love it mate, well done. Betty is looking seriously cool 👍👍👍
bugking wrote:vwrallycar wrote:thats interesting, the price i got was for the 4L of base coat only, no clear which was another $200+
car looks the goods too, its such a nice colour on an old beetle
yeah paint prices can be extreme. glasurit quoted me $2000 for primer, base and clear! which is fine if you have a show car. i guess debeers isn't considered a high quality paint, but it was easy to apply and nice and shiny.
Love the colour dude. Nice home job. When I get round to doing mine I'll have to remember to ask you what equipment you used to do the job
🙂
As for the paint cost, well I've recently heard of Debeers and seems like good quality. Dupont and Glasurit are good products too but rather up there own arses. Because they are so well known and respected they think they can charge more. Bit like Yves Saint Lauren really, I mean it's just a bloody suit that some poor pakistani has sewed together for 20cents.
Still I hope the Deneers turns out to be hard wearing
😉madness is in the eye of the beholder 👍
Wow that looks really neat, its all about the cruzin when its finished I like it.
Its fun to build them, but its great to drive them!
Paul & Anna
hey man thats looking good, there is now three bugs with preety much the same colour etc, mine is an alright quality but is quite good from far away but then isn super preety up close but its better than it was before. Here is a pic of mine,
Back in the game again, picked up a 1600 twinport the other day.
engine no. AD013126
Whilst I'm doing the 12v conversion aswell I thought of modernising the engine with an alternator and electronic ignition.
Any advice and other suggestions are most welcome!
wow that progress was quick as!
Looks good mate👍
68 Baja - It's a growing pain!
58 Baja ute - and the pain spreads!
85 T3 Kombi - still growing
89 T3 Kombi - parts car
Did a quick test fit of the twin solex 32-34 PDSIT-2/3 today. I bought them off ebay awhile back for $70 alot cheaper than webbers! Found the manifolds don't line up with the locating pin on the heads, so looks like it's out with the power drill😂 The linkage looks like it should work (although it's somewhat 'lightweight!') Has anyone had any experience with this set up? all I could really find out is that the -2 goes on the left -3 the right❓
yeah she blows smoke and takes a while to start, even with a new 6v battery. behind the rocker covers is pretty shiny so i was hopeing the internals were the same.
the respray is too good for a rat but not that good either. a friend of mine is an ex raaf painter and he is going to paint it for cartons. i'll leave the wolfsburg crest on the bonnet though.
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