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First VW at drags from 70's
alansvw - September 3rd, 2016 at 03:16 PM

Found these old photos of my first vw with a big motor 2180cc with 46mm webers, built by The Bug In and Adrian the mechanic. I delivered it from the dealership to Neutral bay with 25 ks on the clock and they went to work. Ran 13.01 running in. I drove to Qld and back every few weeks and never missed a beat.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i82/alansvw/IMG_3596.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i82/alansvw/IMG_3597.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i82/alansvw/IMG_3598.jpg

oldskoolguy - September 3rd, 2016 at 03:36 PM

Fantastic pictures :tu::tu:

vw54 - September 3rd, 2016 at 04:40 PM

Great to see old pics are you in the picture ??

waltermitty - September 3rd, 2016 at 07:47 PM

Nice!! what times did it get?

alansvw - September 3rd, 2016 at 10:18 PM

I'm in the pic, the guy on right. the other guy is Adrian Corvesy who built the engine. It ran 13.01 on the day but the engine was really only 2 weeks old and from memory the fan belt was slipping and the tyres weren't ideal for the drags. never took it to the drags again. I owned it for a few years before selling to a girl, not sure what happened to it after that.

BambiSS - November 16th, 2016 at 10:15 AM

Wow, very cool..
I'm sure you would have surprised a few contenders that day!

Bizarre - November 16th, 2016 at 03:45 PM

46 IDA's?
Worth their weight in gold

1303Steve - November 20th, 2016 at 07:18 AM

I have the Recaro seats out of that car in my bug

Blklhdbeetle - November 21st, 2016 at 06:49 PM

Hi there i have Ken Virgins black daily drive left hand drive currently in resto was looking for any pics that maybe around
Keeping it left handdrive and looking to put back to factory
Any help with pics would be good