Hay Everyone in AussieLand, Howz it going?
been a member for a while, thought I'd post up.
I've had the 63 for about 6-7 years now, bought it
after my first car, a 67 1300 from sweden, was totaled
in a 5 car pile-up. Has had "resto" some time ago, one day I'll redo it proper.
has a warmed over 1600 TP, 1500 gearbox, leagy front seats as the og drivers is a hole. I drive this bitch everyday and love giving it shit!!
http://www.nzveedubnuts.com/viewtopic.php?t=956 
http://www.nzveedubnuts.com/files/63_bumper_2_200.jpg 

[ Edited on 24-5-2007 by 63ragtop ]

Welcome!
where's the pics?
T54

too high in the front........

nick

nice. looks real clean.

very nice

thanks peeps, yep needs 3" chunk taken ouit of the beam and some drop spindles would be nice, I'm also thinkin 175/55 would also help get it on the deck. but most of the time just keeping it running is enuff work! got to fix my starter this weekend.
heaps of cool cars on this site, keep up the good work yo.

Nice rag top. checked out your post on the NZ Veedub nuts web site too. Kool site.

Hi Aussiedubbers! howzit!
got some smarts on the front of the bug about a month ago, just got round to posting some fresh pic's that I took out on the driveway.
Starting to get a bit of rake now









so is it low enuff

nice rag top you have there

cheers jess

havin a wee look about the nzveedubnuts site and found this pic


what does it take to run wheels like that ?? looks hawwwt

man dig that blue colour

Hey 63ragtop, very nice. Great colour too. Looks to be a popular car by the number of hits on the nzvwnuts forum. well done.

63 Ragtop, your red Baron is sweet as! Awesome look dude.
As for the blue one, yeah, great colour....then I am a bit biassed.

could anyone tell me what the colour of the blue could be
looking for a colour like that for the 68

try mitsubishi monarch

the color looks identical to blue belles

cheers
beb & tazz

NZ probably shared its colours with aus
theres a blue from 66,67 that it looks like and given that bug looks to be those years id say its the original colour
just cant think atm what its called
it was the next gen sea blue from 64,65

who cares about the colour

how do you run wheels like that !?!

Hey, are you taking it to Kumeu Classic and Hot Rod show next weekend?

rims are just widened stockies with white walls

Very Nice and welcome to the nut house.

thanks again everyone, yep I live pretty close to the kumeu, will probley cruze down on sunday,
That blue car doe's look pretty cool, but your front fenders won't thank you for those wide-ass rims, that's one of the reason's I got the smart's up front.

cheers

bingo, i knew someone on the forum had one in that colour but was racking my brains trying to remember who it was

a mate had a 68 semi auto that was vw blue too
except being a semi auto meant it was fully imported not built from CKD kits like regular beetles were so the german colour tag under the bonnet was "VW BLAU"

heres some better pics of the same colour

PS sorry to hijack ur thread 63ragtop

Yep my 68 was originally VW Blue but it had been resprayed using spraycans before i got it so the blue didn't look so good
now i'm starting to like it again
sorry about hijacking your thread 63ragtop.....the ragtop looks neat as

Right, long time no updates!

so things have been happening, the ragtop looks like this at the mo.



I have been teaching myself to weld and use a grinder etc..
and have slowly worked my way up to pulling the car down to it's bare bones and off the pan.



rust was starting to get a grip so I took it off the road in 09 before it got worse.
has been really enjoyable for the most part, earning how to work the metal and I'm pretty proud that i have fabbed all the replacement panels myself bar the rear bumper mounts.













more pics and shit here on my nz thread

http://www.nzveedubnuts.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5122

I've been enjoying everyones threads on here so fairs fair!