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AUSSIE_MICK Officially Full-On Dubber

205 posts · joined Jan 2009 ·

#813544
Hey Kev
It looks Shit Hot!

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#813548
WOW KEV...

LOOKS VERY NICE.... and expensive... lol

AND NICE COLOR.....

I CAN'T REMEMBER ANY BEETLE LOOKING THIS GOOD AFTER BEING PAINTED....

EXCELLENT JOB....

BUT I CAN SEE ANOTHER LONG WHILE BEFORE YOU CAN DRIVE IT... 🙅

CHEERS

LEE





you aren't using one piece windows in the doors??
Kev

Lee
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

Camo Custom Title Time!

1,936 posts · joined Oct 2007 ·

#813555
Thanks for the positive comments all.

Sorry Bizarre, but I will have to trim it or I might scratch the black shinny floor. But I agree it would look hot with the bright orange insides and a black shinny floor, maybe I can remove carpets when entering the VW nationals 😀 Also I didn't prepare the inner B & C panels well enough for a finished painted look after installing 3 point seat belts in the front and rear.

Lee, it will be original flipper windows for this baby.

Look forward to just getting the body back on the pan.

Cheers, Kev
I thought rebuilding a VW would be cheap - Shit I was wrong, just don't let the wife know !!!!

Click here for my (slowy) modded 1961 Beetle build.

RUBY ROSE Casual Dubber

29 posts · joined Feb 2010 ·

#813574
Kev,
looks good mate. Who did the panel & paint? I was going to do my 66 the same (electric orange) colour. Saw yours and thought i will have to alter slightly.
Dave

Craig S Wolfsburg Wizard

635 posts · joined May 2008 ·

#813582
👍👍👍👍

Looks great Kev,

Unveiling at the nationals next year???
1969 Beetle - June
1974 L Bug - Gwendolyn
2002 Bora V6 4Motion - Anita

cnfabo Custom Title Time!

1,353 posts · joined Apr 2008 ·

#813593
always wanted to see that colour on a bug, well that is shit hot...very nice indead.....

cam070 Custom Title Time!

1,332 posts · joined Jul 2009 ·

#813612
Help I'm drowning in drool

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#813627
Hi Kev

That looks fantastic, you must feel pleased after all your hard work.

Steve

Camo Custom Title Time!

1,936 posts · joined Oct 2007 ·

#814029
My baby came home today and I am very happy with the result. Looks best in person and in the sunlight.

Whilst driving home I noticed a lot of people looking in my direction and people walking along the footpath turning around as I drove past and kept looking and the thing is that I don't think they were looking at my tow car 🥲 which is really a great sign 😂

Long live the Vee Dub 👍






Kev
I thought rebuilding a VW would be cheap - Shit I was wrong, just don't let the wife know !!!!

Click here for my (slowy) modded 1961 Beetle build.

Craig S Wolfsburg Wizard

635 posts · joined May 2008 ·

#814032
I guess there was no point tying a red rag to the back of it, it would have reduced its visibility. 😎
1969 Beetle - June
1974 L Bug - Gwendolyn
2002 Bora V6 4Motion - Anita

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#814068
Craig S wrote:👍👍👍👍

Looks great Kev,

Unveiling at the nationals next year???


I think that is a BIG ask...

where are the doors, guards etc Kev...??

LEE
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#814633
Kev won't be on here so often now.....

He should be busy fitting the chassis and doors etc... lol

and taking more photographs...

LEE
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

AUSSIE_MICK Officially Full-On Dubber

205 posts · joined Jan 2009 ·

#816785
Dropped by Kev's place on Sunday arvo, the car and chassis looks sweet!

AUSSIE_MICK Officially Full-On Dubber

205 posts · joined Jan 2009 ·

#816789
Hey Paul you been missing all the action lately.

Camo Custom Title Time!

1,936 posts · joined Oct 2007 ·

#817864
Another small update: I have fitted up my new tandem master cylinder, Volvo reservoir, brake and clutch pedals, new flexible and solid brake lines and now I have brakes that work 🙂

Also just spent $250 buying steel braided fuel hoses and Earl's type connectors just for my delivery and return fuel lines that I have routed through the tunnel and out of the original fuel outlet in the frame horns. The passengers side one is the delivery and I drilled and fitted one to the drivers side for return. This being for future plans of the one day EFI/Turbo. Lot easier to do this now than later on and will save time.














Now my next job is to stick the floor pan seal down and refit the body, something I am very much looking forward to.


Kev
I thought rebuilding a VW would be cheap - Shit I was wrong, just don't let the wife know !!!!

Click here for my (slowy) modded 1961 Beetle build.

pod i`ve got to finish this thing one day

4,980 posts · joined Dec 2003 ·

#817867
OMClarke wrote:mmmmmm, club sport 🙂


MMMMMMMMMM, VW
the best of both worlds😎

and Kev ,that is going to be one sweet beetle👍
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cam070 Custom Title Time!

1,332 posts · joined Jul 2009 ·

#817869
Hey Kev, what brakes are you running. They look sexy!

AUSSIE_MICK Officially Full-On Dubber

205 posts · joined Jan 2009 ·

#817888
Mmmmm Tunnel cam.

Camo Custom Title Time!

1,936 posts · joined Oct 2007 ·

#819552
The coming together of two (not me and the misses but the floor pan and the body). The body is back on for the final time after 3 years of being separated.

Got the daughter involved so as I could get some work done and still look after her during these school holidays.





Gee, this colour looks different in different lights. Looks best when out in full sunlight. And a mobile phone camera doesn't help.

Kev

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I thought rebuilding a VW would be cheap - Shit I was wrong, just don't let the wife know !!!!

Click here for my (slowy) modded 1961 Beetle build.

Camo Custom Title Time!

1,936 posts · joined Oct 2007 ·

#820524
Paulc1964au wrote:Cam,
car is coming on nicely when are you hoping to have it on the road?
Hi Paul,

I dont want to set myself a date to have it finished by, as then I could rush things and make mistakes or just bad decisions. I basically want to have it on the road as soon as possible as it has been over 3 years since I bought it.

Managed to have fair bit of time today and got stuck into it. The photos should show what I managed to achieve. The pain part is when you have to fit and remove parts, make adjustments and then refit them all over again.

The last photo is showing the 5 piece Kafer Bar I got off Craig Torrens.











Kev
I thought rebuilding a VW would be cheap - Shit I was wrong, just don't let the wife know !!!!

Click here for my (slowy) modded 1961 Beetle build.

Special Air Service Chief "Gunna"

1,769 posts · joined Oct 2004 ·

#820525
That is going to look the "bomb" when its finished. You must be happy so far!!

Cheers
Brendan
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Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·

#820526
WOW...............awesome work Kev !!