Hi all...
I have posted elsewhere on the forums but thought i'd go into more detail regarding plans for the car etc
Both my wife and i have owned VW's in the past when we lived in the UK. I had a 67 bug followed by a 69 bus and my wife had a 72 Beetle.
Fast forward 15 years and a move to Australia we get the urge to buy another Beetle as a 2nd car. We really wanted a pre-67 with sloping lights etc and heard through a friend of a clean 66 for about $2000, which sounded perfect as we had a budget of $1800 due to Mr Rudd's stimulus payments, but all of the Beetles we'd seen on Ebay that were any good were fetching $4000+ and that was out of our reach.
So we went to view the car and immediately spotted that this wasn't a 66 due to having upright lights etc.
Not sure how the confusion came about, but it is indeed a 68 somehow on paperwork as a 66. The car was too clean to be picky about the year and we ended up buying her for $1800 with RWC. The paperwork includes the original service record from 1968.
I know a lot of people will hate me for it, but i intend to transform the car to match the paperwork by changing the front & rear valances, adding sloping guards / / bonnet / boot / bumpers & lights and would also like to get the pre-67 fuel tank and weld up the outer flap. Also little things like changing the speedo and adding the old fuel gauge.
If anyone has any info or can direct me to some posts regarding doing the above mods then i'd be really grateful. Also if anyone has any panels / boot / lid / bumpers (or anything listed in my plans above) for sale then i'd love to hear from you.
Will keep this updated as and when things start to move ahead...might take a while though!
Many thanks
Neil
The car as bought (we have named her "bee-beep")!!
Bumper mounts etc all looking pretty clean
Inside the bonnet is pretty clean too. Deffo not what we were used to back in the UK anyway!!
HAHA!!! My old 67 bug!
My old 69 hi top bus!!!!
djnee Officially Full-On Dubber
341 posts · joined Mar 2009 ·
