I thought I'd say hi and share my new project. I picked this up last weekend. Been sitting in a shed in NE victoria for over 20 years. No rust (other than surface rust). Last rego 1988. Everything is complete (pretty much). Few dented panels but looks like it's going to be fun.
I'm pretty sure its a 63 (people can tell me different), rego'd as a 64 but I always thought that the body colour (turquoise) was stopped after 63.
Thanks Nick
vassy66T1 ·
Looks nice and original ... well done!
What are the plans for it?
Bizarre ·
Nice one
What is happening to its brother sitting beside it??
they look like twins
I hope you havent seperated the poor darlings 😂
Joel ·
nice score
cant be to many more shed finds left out there like that
put up the chassis number, we'll soon tell you what year but it looks like a 64
its certainly newer than 63 unless alot of parts have been changed
nick_and ·
I hope I haven't unleashed some bad spirits by removing the beetle from his little friend. They've been sitting there for many many years together. It was quite strange to open the shed for the first time to see 2 cars, same colour, same amount of dirt on them sitting there waiting.
I'll put the chassis # up when I get a chance, would really like to know the yeah model.......and to see if anything has been changed/replaced.
This is my first beetle, after owning mostly type3's. I think at this stage, I'm going to work on the pan+engine - mechanicals first. Then new interior. We think we'll do all of the resto except leave the body/paint, I like the idea of leaving that in original, untouched condition with the rest of the car cleaned up.......that's the idea for now anyway........We'll see 😊
izac ·
thats sweet man! love that colour
I like the sound of your plans too..👍
good luck with the resto
Wannavee ·
Cool mate,congrats,I just sold my Turquoise 63 (a VERY sad day).
The only thing i can see that isnt original for a 63 is the front indicators are the wide ones on yours.
Mine had thinner ones width wise,I'm told by more experienced vw owners (i'm a 6 month newbie) that the slimmer ones are correct which i personally think look better.
Cheers
Lee
Mountains Greg ·
Cool looking bug nick_and ! I like your plans with keeping the exterior original looking. I remember my grandmother having a turquoise 1965 1300 Beetle from new, so I'm not certain when turquoise was deleted from VW's colour chart. I agree with Lee I have a 62/63 and it still has the slimmer front indicators which I also prefer. Does it have the small or wider rear rego plate light housing? 1964 saw the wider rear rego plate light housing.
Cheers
Greg
Joel ·
63 was also the last year for 3colour crest, stale air heating and the slim blinkers as already mentioned which your bugs hasnt got
its got the small popes nose which is interesting
pretty sure all the above changes happened in early 64
nick_and ·
Thanks for the comments everyone. I'll post the chassis number when I get a chance. I'm starting the think it is a 64 model - from what I can see all of the indicators etc are original, I was just thrown by the colour (and thinking that turquoise finished in 63 - looking at the colour charts on samba).
Heres a couple of extra pictures. We polished one side to have a look and started to removed the interior. New carpets, head lining and then door cards and seat covers coming up. Going to try to knock out the dings but not repaint.
byronmcmanus59 ·
nice find mate, should head over to melburgluft.com and post some pics..
agree with keeping the O.G paint.. coming up a treat..
psimitar ·
Nice find there dude 🙂
Paints coming up a treat and dentmaster should be able to pull most those dings out.
whatnow ·
the paint lists on the samba don't really relate to australian colours. try in2vw's site it is really helpful for things like that.
have a look at the back of the speedo and fuel gauge. there will be a date stamp for when they were made, which would have been within a month prior (at a guess) to the car being built.
very nice. I got a 1960 turquoise standard bug and have the same plans. 👍
vwvic ·
Great score mate. Just need a few inches taken out of the height and a nice set of rims 👍
Should have got em both slam one and leave the other standard. The second one looks like it has the flash trim on it.
TOPCAT69 ·
Well i guess it's been nearly 4 years anything is possible 👍👍😁😁
vwvic ·
Ha prob should have looked at the date 😂😂
TOPCAT69 ·
Maybe it's in the other shed. Still
Any updates 🤪
HappyDaze ·
I'd recon it has been restored by now......re-stored in another shed.🙄