Hey as you who know me would know, my beloved Veronika was secretly painted matt black before Valla.
So who likes what I did?
Or should I have left her like this:
Or even like THIS old picture!!
C'mon, what did ya's think?
-Staggers.
hellbugged ·
if you're gonna wear the flat black, you got to go LOW!
bugeyedbabe ·
go low, flare the fenders and shes a total babe....hotrod chick
Volkswagenboy ·
I'm onto that already!
Looking for lowered struts, and I'm welding in three inches to the front guards to allow the mags I have to sit inside.
The rear will stay the same height (Albeit a little higher when the front goes down) because I haven't the room in the guards with the mags.
I LOVE MASSIVE RAKES!!
-Staggers.
sinecure ·
Love it Brenton, and wholly agree with dumone and bugeyedbabe.
Shoulda had the neons on for that pic. 😎
sinecure ·
And do the visor matt too.
Volkswagenboy ·
I'm installing my red neons this weekend, right after I start on the heart rebuild!!
Blue neons don't look so hot on a matt black car.
-Staggers.
sinecure ·
And are mostly illegal ...mostly.
sinecure ·
I've built the LED's for your tail lights too.
mscabrio ·
I think she is a bit tough to continue to be known as Veronika. Maybe you need to shorten her name to "V" to reflect her new image ???????
butidontunderstand ·
gotta love a girl dressed in black 😉
Volkswagenboy ·
sinecure wrote:I've built the LED's for your tail lights too.
You have?? Oh my god!
:o
P.S: I've used Vera every so often, how's that Ms?
-Staggers.
bajachris88 ·
Best decision dude. honestly. Shes hot. i rekon the front looks good, the bum seems sooo high though... Just my opinion. either way, shes a babe. would fit in nicely with all ur rods and muscles at home :P
She really does look CLASSIQUE now!!! GOOD ON YA MATE!
mscabrio ·
Vera ????? Thats a bit more like it!
I know what's missing !!! She needs some "cranky eyes" eye lids to make her look a little more "snarly"
Volkswagenboy ·
Cranky eyes? Yeah! I was gonna bye some stainless eyebrows, but I'm thinking those ones that fit onto the glass (A little like the cats eyes).
-Staggers.
sinecure ·
Cats eyes FTW!
Volkswagenboy ·
FTW??
OMG WTF RU ON??
-Staggers.
bajachris88 ·
don't go cat eyes, got somethin custom! :P cat eyes too feminine for u
Volkswagenboy ·
The semi-circle eyes are what I want.
-Staggers.
ang3lsholocaust ·
😂veronikas one h0t babe..shes stilly my bitch hahaha:blush
ang3lsholocaust ·
still** oops typo😂
Volkswagenboy ·
Yeah she sure is!! 👍
-Staggers.
jo_tas ·
New look is awesome.. will be even better with the planned mods.. needs whitewalls too!! 😏
It was a nice bum to look at on the way to and from valla... the cars bum that is.... 😂
crewcabconnection ·
Pair of Beetle boxes that I do like.
byronbus ·
haha
frenzix ·
hehe
crewcabconnection ·
sorry Alan.
Volkswagenboy ·
crewcabconnection wrote:
Pair of Beetle boxes that I do like.
Different spelling!!!
It's spelt with a k not a c! Mmm... KFC...
Sorry.
-Staggers.
weapon ·
i prefer the blue personally. but shes your car not mine. either way is vw is good.rob.
bugbrained ·
sweet mate she looks bad in black :thumb
Volkswagenboy ·
All comments accepted weapon!
-Staggers.
Boozer ·
Love it. keep the rear the way it is...even the tail lights suit it.:thumb:thumb:thumb
Volkswagenboy ·
I might lower her completely, but I'd rather the massive rake.
-Staggers.
Volkswagenboy ·
Well so far 15 out of 19 say I made a good decision...
Phase two will commence soon... (Obviously it'll be the guards, wheels, neons and suspension height!!)
Man, I need to buy Jeff's swaybar.
-Staggers.
Turbo54 ·
Stick the bumpers back on.
pete wood ·
dude I love matt black, but you need some serious dumping as was said by others. You almost got a baja bug with that much height. Plus you need a skinny/fatty (front rear) tyre setup if you want the real hotrod look. Then you can rake it properly. At the mo there's way too much rubber on the front, and totally not enough at the back. Find a pair of 15x4" inch rims off a beelte and put 145s on em for the front. Some mega whitewalls would help too. 😉
like this...
[ Edited on 10-8-06 by pete wood ]
Liam_81 ·
My girlfriends name is Veronika. She loves naming cars, i will show her your beetle and let her know that they share the same name.
Lower it before you get the nose bleeds. :P
pete wood ·
Liam_81 wrote:Lower it before you get the nose bleeds. :P
ha ha ha, good one! 😂
ruckus ·
She looks unhappy to me. Chuck the bumpers back on, lower her a bit (rake just looks silly to me) and she'll look as badass as those rear lights suggest she is.
Just my 2c
Volkswagenboy ·
I had towel rails on her at one stage:
But I'd rather her without bumpers (Or at the most T-Bars).
I'm using 6" Mags for the front and 8.5" for the business end...
Will also be shoving 245's, maybe 65/14 Radials on the arse, and just 185 65 on the front.
Tonight I'll be making a trip to my shed to pick up my spare guards, I've decided to pump them out 5" (to account for lowered struts) on the front and MAYBE 6" on the rear.
I'll post some pics of how they go once I've started cutting & joining.
-Staggers.
Volkswagenboy ·
To give you a rough idea, the tyres are 185 65/14's already, so pumping the guards out 5" and dumping her on the front should look grouse.
-Staggers.
Volkswagenboy ·
Who reckons I should've left her left hand drive?
-Staggers.
butidontunderstand ·
naaaaaaaaaaaaaaah youve done good mate :bounce :bounce :bounce :bounce
butidontunderstand ·
but yeah t-bars and LOOOOOOOW
bajachris88 ·
T bars are good :P,
gotta work out what i'm gonna do with my set 👍😀
pete wood ·
you need to ask yourself some questions.
A. What do you want the car to look like? ROD, German looker, resto custom, stocker. Coz everything you do needs to be controlled by that.
B. Does the car actually handle? Coz from what I can see it must understeer like a pig at the mo. Beetles have no weight in the front so big fat tyres on the front is a waste unless they are low profile and very very sticky. From what I can see your front tyres are neither. It's bordering on a Baja currently.
Sorry if I offend you, but I know you are a young fella and all young fellas suffer similar problems, I did the same. We just do things willy nilly in the hope the car will look cooler. So take a tip. DON'T pump the front guards out. Just get some skinny tyres (on stock rims) that will fit and are a good compound and lower the car. Add some sway bars and you'll be surprised at just how much better it grips and how much better it looks. macpherson strut beetles can be tuned to handle better than any other beetle. Take advantage of it and when you get that right, I think you'll find the car looks heaps better too. 😉
I've given you a few cars to look at to see what I mean.
The first one belongs to bizarre. It looks great. Check the stance and the wheel and tyre setup. This thing drives really well ask Bizarre. (the man wandering in front of it is also off the forum).
The green car belongs to 71ejvan and the cabrio used to be squizy's. (I'd tell you who owns it know but he's be very uncool about it, lol). Now I know the green car is german look, but the stance it great, and the cabrio was one of the best looking cars I ever saw on the road in terms of ride height while moving. It looked awesome. It's been changed back to standard now and I have the rear sway bar off that car on my car now. But you get the point.
[ Edited on 11-8-06 by pete wood ]
[ Edited on 11-8-06 by pete wood ]
Volkswagenboy ·
pete wood wrote:A. What do you want the car to look like? ROD, German looker, resto custom, stocker. Coz everything you do needs to be controlled by that.
B. Does the car actually handle? Coz from what I can see it must understeer like a pig at the mo. Beetles have no weight in the front so big fat tyres on the front is a waste unless they are low profile and very very sticky. From what I can see your front tyres are neither. It's bordering on a Baja currently.
[ Edited on 11-8-06 by pete wood ]
A: Why do I need it to LOOK like something, the whole point of owning a car is personalisation, and creating your own look.
B: It handles quite good, suprisingly it oversteers a little.
And yes I'm a young fella, but the thing is this is what I want to do... NOT just to make it look cool... plus I have the wheels in my shed for it already which require the wider guards.
Out of the cars I own and drive, Veronika is one of the best (But not THE best) drives I have when it comes to steering.
Even AFTER I converted her to RHD when I was 16.
Thanks for the tips, but yeah no specific look thanks, I don't want to blend in with all the GL's or Rods. I'll take it as it comes, just like my other projects at the moment.
(I know I know... Young fella... But I get the 'Do your own thing' part from my father, a (As I call) unique car owner/builder)
-Staggers.
bajachris88 ·
make ur own style up brenton :P
we shall dub it... staggerism!
butidontunderstand ·
I say do what you want, when you want, with who you want and how you want :bounce :bounce :bounce
Volkswagenboy ·
butidontunderstand wrote:I say do what you want, when you want, with who you want and how you want :bounce :bounce :bounce
But lately that's gotten me into even more trouble!!!
-Staggers.
Volkswagenboy ·
Don't get me wrong Pete, your advice is helpful (Lowering the front, using swaybars etc) but I'm on my way to doing those mods too...
Thanks for the tips either way, sorry if I offended you with my replies but hey that's life.
My current plans are to:
* Install lowered struts (Or adjustable struts).
* Install a sway-a-way swaybar (From bugbrained).
* Pump the guards out to make way for my mags wheels.
* Rebuild the engine (Use twin carbs etc too)
And maybe later on make some T-bars up, convert to type three braking and get a heavier torsion bar for the rear.
-Staggers.
pete wood ·
mag wheels? why didn't you say so? Cool, do that, I thought you were pumping the guards to cover what you already have. Got any pics of the new wheels?
Listen, I'm not trying to say don't do something different. Do what ever you want, but figure out the big picture first. That's all I was trying to say.🙂
Volkswagenboy ·
Volkswagenboy wrote:...inches to the front guards to allow the mags I have to sit inside...
I did tell ya!! I said I have mags a few times!!
But yeah man I know what you're saying. 😀
-Staggers.
jo_tas ·
I can vouch for that oversteer! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee! :P
Tazz ·
Watch out for fences and sign posts!
Tazz
Volkswagenboy ·
Well yes Tazz, that time she DID understeer, mainly because I got too cocky in the mud and decided to plant the foot!!
-Staggers.
MISS VDUB ·
Ur telling me, Taz and i just saw u disappear side-ways off the road! Good thing you keep that extra pair of jocks in the glove box hey?
Nice red wheels... who helped ya do that aye? 😁
Ash x
Volkswagenboy ·
Who helped me do that? A certain lovely young lady I know. 🙂
-Staggers.
Volkswagenboy ·
Another picture!
-Staggers.
Volkswagenboy ·
Just like to say a big thanks to Ash for helping me get Veronika ready, and for making the cruise down more enjoyable.
Oh I need to get some pictures of Guido here!
-Staggers.
66deluxe ·
It's heaps beter now staggers, that aerial shot is good, it is now the colour it should have been the whole time but please lower it, and good to see you got rid of the neons and towel rail bumpers.
Volkswagenboy ·
Thanks man, lowering will come soon enough!
I agree that I shoulda gone with the black first.
-Staggers.
baggedbug68 ·
i agree that flat black go's with the lowered look also while your at it narrow the front beam will look even better and useable while lowered.
Joel ·
bit hard to narrow a non existant beam in an Sbug LOL
-Joel
Volkswagenboy ·
Maybe I could narrow the bumpers while I'm at it!! 😀
-Staggers.
Volkswagenboy ·
Started cutting and widening the guards a little while ago. They're going 6 inches wider with the wheel arch dropped 4 inches.
I'm dropping the arches so it'll have the appearance of a low car without being too low, for now. That's of course until I cut the struts and drop them soon.
-Staggers.
Volkswagenboy ·
Ah the memories...
-Staggers.
kroozzn63 ·
the matt black needs severe lowering , i like the blue one , nice either way
Volkswagenboy ·
Lowering will come soon, right after I finish the guards!
-Staggers.
Volkswagenboy ·
Veronika's glitterkiss!
-Staggers.
MISS VDUB ·
I'm a bad influence on you...
Ash x
Volkswagenboy ·
Yes, yes you are... (in)
Hehe.
Doesn't it suit her though, even the chick is the human form of Veronika! Black with red shoes!
-Staggers.