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SOUTH AFRICAN BEETLE 1975
LUFTMEISTER - March 13th, 2006 at 08:23 PM

Purchased this for my daughter. lots of different items to our beetle of same year.
pan has link pin front & swing rear
unique front wheel bearings and brake drums
different seats and interior materials.
standard pop-out windows
wide five pattern and rostyle wheels (i have them)
has heaps more sound deadener/rust proof under body.
car came with SA number plates and SA first aid kit and some O.E parts.
very happy with purchase and only required front end work for road worthy. :thumb


LUFTMEISTER - March 13th, 2006 at 08:28 PM

some more pics


Dasdubber - March 13th, 2006 at 10:01 PM

Thats cool the curved windscreen with wide 5 wheels! Give me a yell if you ever want to sell your rostyles :blush


62deluxe - March 13th, 2006 at 10:38 PM

Cool!! It's always nice to see something a little unique.


baybuscamperkid - March 14th, 2006 at 03:52 PM

those taillights are scarey!


ragged - March 14th, 2006 at 04:41 PM

What engine?
1300 twin port??
What prefix does the Engine # start with AB or AR???

Cheers Dave


Bizarre - March 14th, 2006 at 07:44 PM

WOW.... your kidding .. right??


Only ever heard about these

Curved screen and a beam??
Does yours have elephant foot tail lights or like in the pic

Here is the link this came from

http://www.vw-1303.com/ 

Any chance you are coming down to the Nats??

Where did you get this from???


BTW - i have a Suth Efrican T2.5 kombi, but it is basically the same except it had a HUGE petrol tank


LUFTMEISTER - March 14th, 2006 at 11:21 PM

yes i saw your photo and had a chuckle. yes it has elephant foot lights. 1600 altenator engine AD number. maybe coming down for nats. might see you there.


VWCOOL - March 14th, 2006 at 11:29 PM

weird - no bulbous bonnet!


pete wood - March 15th, 2006 at 10:10 AM

got an email mate who has a Baja version of one of those. Can't seem to find the pic at the mo.


1303Steve - March 15th, 2006 at 12:01 PM

Hi

I wonder how the front end fits in, as the 1302 & 1303 had a longer wheel base than a beam front end beetle, so they must use a special pan.

Steve


Doug Sweetman - March 15th, 2006 at 02:20 PM

Pan must be similar to 1303 but with a different head on it - like you say Steve, longer wheelbase.

I like it alot - looks great for a factory stock bug, and plus the curved windscree with the different bonnet looks nice too.


1303Steve - March 15th, 2006 at 09:39 PM

Hi

Maybe with the stubby nose it has the short wheelbase still. All type 1 pans are the same from the napolean hat backwards. Oops apart from IRS and swingers having the obvious mounting points.

Steve

[ Edited on 15-3-2006 by 1303Steve ]


Joel - March 17th, 2006 at 08:22 PM

i remembered seeing one of these on the germanlook website and thinking wtf!!

i thought it may have been a really bad repair job from a prang till i found out bout them
would love to see under the hood of one to see what they've done front suspension/spare tyre wise

hey dubb61 how bout a boot pic :-)
thanks

Joel

[ Edited on 17-3-2006 by DUB74L ]