Hello all,

I'm new to the Aussie VeeDub scene but now have a bug that my wife bought me for xmas. It's a 59 and pretty solid body wise so hopefully just the mechanicals to get her rolling again. Here's some piccies of saturday when she arrived.


Coming down.......


Her new home and my lovely wife!!!


and the rear end....


and one proud owner

i think the look on your face says it all. looks like a pretty good score
what are the floorpans like?

is this the one near albury ,you were trying to get home?? if it is ,it looks a good score

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Originally posted by Dilbert i think the look on your face says it all. looks like a pretty good score what are the floorpans like?

sweet man, looks awesome!! some ankor wax on that body would look the goods i reckon and slammed of course

looks like a good score, watch out for the timber chocks though, looks a bit iffy

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Originally posted by izac sweet man, looks awesome!! some ankor wax on that body would look the goods i reckon and slammed of course

what a great wife... she's a keeper....

I'm sure you already know it but you have a very cool wife to buy you a car!


Much better than socks and hankies.

Thanks guys!! Yup, she is a great wife and likes the Beetles too

she asked the other day if she is allowed to drive her when she's on the road. Cute, huh? course she can!!!

So I decided to strip the interior and clean the boot out last nite whilst the wife was at work. I forgot to take pictures of the before but lets just say that there was a couple of vacuum bags full of dried mouse poo in there.
So the under bonnet



only a little rust arounf the tank edge and surface rust in the wheel well. Sweet.

The interior



This was gross to begine with. Redback egg sacks everywhere plus mouse poo but now just needs a wire wheeling back to metal and some rustkill paint on top.
I am amazed at how solid this 50 year old bug is. Bloody marvellous

amazing the floorpan can still look that good, and other people see it rusted right through. nice job keep it up :P

that looks like a great start, i'd be happy with it. your wife is definately a keeper if she buys you cars. that pic is priceless, she looks as though she has realized just what she has done.

if you don't mind me asking, does the chassis number date it to after august 59? just asking as it looks like a '60 model to me.

under the rear seat area, just before the gear coupling access hole, looks like a 60 to me as well, bumper overriders , steering column, raised bonnet badge area, looks like 68 on pedals put in as well,etc

Looks to have a few 60's parts on it, but i can see it still has the semaphores, so i'd say 59 body with a possible pan swap at some point?

it looks like there is og blue trying to shake off that ugly top coat. (maybe 1 yr only strato blue )

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=76072&start=0 

1960 was the last year for glass tail lights and semaphores in australia.

well the chassis number is 197645071. Thats whats stamped by the gearchange tunnel linkage access hole.

I think the poor thing has had later parts fitted to her in the 50 years since rolling out of wolfsburg

i recently picked up a bug i thought was a 59 but its a 60, it has semaphores in it still.

well did a bit of looking around and seems as tho the chassis was built in May 59 from the 197 start of the chassis number.

So it is a 59 but with later additions. I'm not looking for original persay so a few different bits here and there is fine with me so long as i like the overall look

i'm not sure if it is a 59 pan. it has a 9 digit no instead of a 7 digit no. i would have put it as a 67 pan. i have the remains of a 67? out the back with a 197 *** *** pan no. i have seen those pedals in a 67 i had previously plus your pan has the cut outs in the sound proof tunnel mat for seat belt mount holes.

the body is certainly early and the pan looks in good nick so have fun.

well so long as the body is mainly '59 then thats fine with me. The pan is getting IRS'd so even if it was a '59 pan it wouldn't be original for long

Got a gearbox this weekend and some spring plates so just the 'A' arms, driveshafts and then the conversion brackets and thats done. Just need some wide 5 drums with spacers and the rear is ready.

Had a go at stripping the drivers side floor pan at the weekend and went well but did find a few holes To be expected I s'pose but they not too bad. fab a few plates and pop em in.
some mild swiss cheese

Dead Battery tray

a reasonably clean pan


so a few plates and then a good sanding and it's ready for POR15.

Also took my good engines tinware off to find another Redback. Poor thing didn't like the bug spray

Have also sourced all I need to IRS the pan so just need to find the money to pay for it now.

looks good man, Penetrol works great on crusty rusty floor pans!

Hiya,
Just wanted to let everyone watching know that progress will be very slow for the time being until i find a new job cos my boss is an arsehole!!!!

If anyone knows of work for a Control Systems engineer that would be greatly appreciated. I programme PLC's and SCADA. Very snooze worthy

Hiya all,

So whilst looking for work whilst still having to go to work?!?!?! go figure I have been making some plates for the floor pan rot and starting to tear out the wiring loom. so pics of the holes and patches i made.

Drivers foot hole


Battery tray hole


Passenger 'where your bum should be' hole


and my nice plates i made with the help of works bending press




trimming to size at present and then need to find/borrow/pilfer a welder or maybe just loads of arldite

Not much to show wiring loom wise but pulling the old/new one thro the roof should prove interesting......

Excellent start, pretty much the sort of starting point I want to get to (or is that from? )

Oh, and by "Have also sourced all I need to IRS the pan so just need to find the money to pay for it now. ", can you explain what it was you sourced and from where? I'll probably be needing the same thing once I get going.....

Cheers

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Originally posted by OzSpeedway Excellent start, pretty much the sort of starting point I want to get to (or is that from? ) Oh, and by "Have also sourced all I need to IRS the pan so just need to find the money to pay for it now. ", can you explain what it was you sourced and from where? I'll probably be needing the same thing once I get going..... Cheers