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my 66 beetle
jamiesc - April 18th, 2015 at 04:51 PM

Just picked this beauty up today for $5000 has a port folio from how much money the lady put in even for fuel and the klms each time she refilled it to a brand new engine thats only got 11000 miles and it has a 40000mile warranty it has a few nick nacs that needs fixing but i am happy i have a beetle thats soon to be registed

jamiesc - April 18th, 2015 at 04:53 PM

More pics and it has next to no rust

vwsteve - April 18th, 2015 at 05:08 PM

looks really good:cool:

1cut808 - April 19th, 2015 at 09:20 AM

Very sweet!

wombatventures - April 19th, 2015 at 11:28 AM

Awesome score Mate.
Cool hubcaps too.

jamiesc - April 19th, 2015 at 12:10 PM

Thanks heres a few more pics

adlbeetle66 - April 19th, 2015 at 05:01 PM

Nice...... ive got a 1966 bug too... :)

Craig Torrens - April 19th, 2015 at 06:13 PM

Congrats :tu:

jamiesc - April 21st, 2015 at 05:51 PM

Now the to do list
Give it a respray same colour already have a paintbooth lined up
Tint windows,
Lower it 1 and a half inches
Replace drivers rear rubber
Reseal windscreen
Im going to replace the carpet cause im not happy with the current carpet
Clean hoodlining up
And give it a name any suggestions anybody?

adlbeetle66 - April 21st, 2015 at 05:53 PM

:tu:

Daisy > ?

LUFTMEISTER - April 21st, 2015 at 06:38 PM

"Ole Yella."
You will have to change your avatar pic now. :yes:

matberry - April 21st, 2015 at 06:42 PM

A good friend of mine owned this car through the late nineties. My shop Volksrestore used to maintain it then

vwsteve - April 21st, 2015 at 06:55 PM

put I sticker on the back window, "yellow pages, let your fingers do the talking" with a hand giving the bird!

jamiesc - April 21st, 2015 at 08:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by matberry
A good friend of mine owned this car through the late nineties. My shop Volksrestore used to maintain it then

Yeah i still have the all the reciepts from 92 i think do you have any info from befor he owned or anything cause its a really clean bug

And yes thats true luftmeister i will but ill wait till i finish my todo list

jamiesc - April 27th, 2015 at 07:16 PM

Since ive got it ive sanded it back on last weeked and the i thought ill attack the little bit of body work that needed to be done today i got all the bog that was over kill off the rear bever and apply a little and sanded down untill i was happy and also got a old friend to come out of retirement to weld two 5 cent peice rust repair plates in and i also have some personlised plate to suit it also

fish26 - April 27th, 2015 at 10:28 PM

TW33TY

pricey - May 19th, 2015 at 10:38 AM

Big bird :)

adlbeetle66 - May 19th, 2015 at 11:06 AM

Another thing that should be on the "to do list" is change that drivers mirror :dork:

jamiesc - May 26th, 2015 at 07:22 AM

Im looking at getting new mirrors already

adlbeetle66 - May 26th, 2015 at 07:24 AM

:tu:

jamiesc - November 2nd, 2015 at 07:46 PM

Okay time for an update ive been flatout at work so ive hired a friend thats a panel beater to do the rest of the panel work and ive decided to do a colour change to mango green today i removed most of the stuff my friend wanted me to and tarped the carport in so full steam ahead
Cant wait to drive her cause ive only driven it to the end of my street and back

jamiesc - November 5th, 2015 at 01:33 PM

Finally some work getting done

jamiesc - November 5th, 2015 at 01:34 PM

+1

jamiesc - November 10th, 2015 at 08:20 AM

Got stuck into all the little nooks and crannys on the weekend

jamiesc - November 10th, 2015 at 08:26 AM

Found tiny bits of rust i oxidined them and then found stucture cracks on my guards so i got the welder out weded them shut and grinded them back also welded the holes on the drivers door from the ugly mirror up
The body is just about ready for primer and also two of four guards are nice and staight ready for primer
I got my paint so if weather permits cross fingers it will be painted by the weekend so happy looking forward to driving it soon so happy with all the work thats getting done

jamiesc - November 11th, 2015 at 07:37 AM

Its getting close :)

jamiesc - November 11th, 2015 at 07:38 AM

+1

jamiesc - November 11th, 2015 at 07:09 PM

I had the day off today and heres the days effort so happy to see the paint on something

jamiesc - November 11th, 2015 at 07:10 PM

A few more

jamiesc - November 11th, 2015 at 07:13 PM

The paint look great on the dash and its like glass it made my week to see something with paint