These first two pics are of my current project. A 1978 Karmann Cabrio. I bought it from a guy in Queensland earlier in the year who had just
imported it out from California. It had a fuel injected engine but somebody did a poor job at converting it to a carby. I saw a fi unit on ebay and
bought it so the engine will be fi again. I also bought an a/c unit for it which was removed from a l-bug in america.




These pics are of my old beetle which I restored, but not to the state which I will do my current bug to. It got 100% new rubbers, reco engine/gearbox and new
paint. It also had quarter window pop-outs.

You appear to be very thorough, nice work and welcome to the forum.

nice work, the karmann looks like it will come up a treat!

I love anything with a Karmann name to it. Looks like it will be another great car for our roads. Keep us posted

how long have you been workin on this one it seems to be coming along nicly at the moment:bounce

(I have two login names.)
I have had the car since march. Progress is going soo slow because I am no longer a student and I go to 21st all weekend and don't get up till 2pm. I have decided to clean up and spray all the non-visible parts body parts of the car. But will ship it off to someone else to do all the exterior panel beating and final painting because I want this car to be the best in Australia but dont have the money to pay somebody else to do 100% of the body work. (I did all body work and spraying on my old car.)
I am still looking for another rack and pinion bug which I can use as a donor car, because I still need to get the metal located behind the dash chopped out and a rhd version welded in. From this car I can then get the rack, dash, pedal assembly, wiring harness and many other parts just for spare.

Welcome to the forum!!

The cars look great and cant wait it finished. Keep up the good work!!!:thumb

Like wise - great work and welcome.

Curiosity question - are you converting it to RHD ? If so, as it sounds like you are building a concourse car, where are you getting the dash recovered / reubilt etc ?

I have to get the car converted to RHD. I am pretty sure that the car has to be 30 years or old for it to be registered LHD.
When I can find one, I will buy a RHD rack and pinion bug, where I can get the dash out of it, but have not even started thinking about a place to get the dash restored.

Your old bug wouldn't happen to be Kim's (Golde 60) would it. Now riding with a lowered front?

Is this Graeme who sent me the email re air con?

Squiz.....

My old bug still looks the same, seen it near colonial stadium few weeks back.

Not me re- air con.