r0880's 1958 Beetle

I bought my first VW today, been on the look out for a while, and inspected half a dozen before settling on this one.
Its a bit off an oddity at the moment, parts from different years all over it, but plan to bring it partially back to correct period without being pedantic.

The semaphores have been welded up and seatbeats installed through pillars and mod plated so would be too hard changing it back. I do plan on changing front indicators to narrow style and rear lights to snowflake if I find some.

The front looks alright at moment, but an engine fire has made a mess of the back. Its all fixed mechanically and running a 1600, but needs tidying up. For the short term just going to clean it up and paint that section masked off, ultimately the whole car will need to be resprayed, bit of rust coming though in drivers door and a few tiny bubbles forming along the seams and clear coat lifting on roof. Thinking same colour except cream on side panels to two tone it.

The interior has a little roasted carpet under the window, but otherwise seats and door cards retrimmed in leather (not vinyl). Not a huge fan of colour but its tidy so can stay for now. Drivers door card will be needing a new panel as water damaged due to one piece glass conversion on doors not sealing properly. I want to change this back to quarter windows. Guess the easy way is buying some second hand doors?

Just need to do some fiddly jobs, paint rear and put some rego on it.

Looks familiar , where'd it come from , not Bribie isl by any chance from a bloke named George

No it was a local car in Toowoomba, owned by bloke called Karl for about 10 years he said.

looks like it has had a lot of 1960 beetle stuff fitted .
may find it a bit hard to find good 1958 doors.

they make a lot of repo early vw stuff now . click on link below
and by the way ,they may be 1960 doors ????? joel will know.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1503430

Yeah it does have a mix of parts fitted, i know the drivers door and rear guards are from other vehicles, the pan and body number match and decoded shows 1958 (1750 something) otherwise I would have thought it was a 60.

I'm not that worried either way, it seems to be a solid starting point and picked it up for $2500 so have plenty of budget leftover to make something of it.

Thanks for link those lights look pretty good, will investigate further

I just got my 58 back on the road. after some ran into the back of him .

I bet you weren't happy about that! Looks like a good clean car. Is that side colour original or something someone added over the past 55 years? Looks god.👍