house of dodd once over/resto on all mechanicals

sands fixed up 56 years of one lady owner dings, no bog, rust free car. paint is quite thin in spots!

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Spoont! ......mop and bucket to aisle 5 please.

Amazing...

wow what a beuty

Perfect to Baja, or do a chop top on!

Thats very nice

Your Oval looks fantastic!
Love that interior, and that black paint.

Now that your Oval is finished, that means the House of Dodd, has time to finish my blue '67 Beetle!

keeping historic plates for now, may rego it if we feel it is not being used enough. the roof and some other panels (not touched up) are quite thin paint wise and are resisting a entire respray, but will still put some miles on it though (123,000 to date)

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Originally posted by zayus Now that your Oval is finished, that means the House of Dodd, has time to finish my blue '67 Beetle!

very nice

yummy.

WOW!!!

Respray?
What`s that?

hey guys i noted that on the new clubvdub site http://www.clubvw.org.au/history/reference/history001.html 

they say the 1954 is the smaller 30hp, is this true? Is it not the larger cc 36hp?

can not believe no one is prepared to give some info... where are all you experts from the 1952 ebay sale who new everything? lol

Now thats not the way to influence people particularly when reference material covering 1954 is not abundant.

During 1954 there were actually three different engines available so it all comes back to production date.

The last 25hp engine was produced on 20/12/53 was numbered 1-0695281. A few of these would have carried over to January 1954 production but records stated the the 30hp 1192 cc engine commenced from 1/1/54 through to end of August 1954. Engine numbers were 1-0692282 to 1-0849904. First chassis number was 1-0575415

From September 1954 the 1st 36hp 1192 cc was available in Chassis # 1-0702742. This engine number was
1-0849905. The last 36hp engine produced in 1954 was 1-0945526 on the 31st December 1954 in Chassis Number 1-0781885.

Not having an idea what the Chassis # of your vehicle is I cannot suggest which ios the correct motor but there is suffiecient detail above for you to identify.
Hope this assists.
This information is taken from an US publication specifically for the US market but as Wolfsburg were not making US specific vehicles until 1955 the above facts will relate.
countrybuggybill

Bill, thanks for the information, very well explained. I did hear of quite a bit of conflicting material around so your info appreciated. That would make mine a 36hp.

"Now thats not the way to influence people" of course you are right, but I was just showing a little black humour/sarcasm in context of some posts already on this thread. I loved the comment about fitting a Subaru engine! Thats quite funny to me. thanks again Bill

The 30hp and the 36hp were the same engine, the 30hp is DIN and the 36hp is SAE.
The April 56 Wheels magazine lists both 30hp and 36 SAE hp as the power of the 56 Beetle in their road test.

OK, maybe not exactly the same engine - the pistons were now flat instead of domed which raised the compression ratio from 6.1 to 6.6:1 and the dizzy changed to the BR8 with less advance than the BR3 it replaced (which had less than the BR2 which was before the BR3)

nice car ,
Here is john Cains site.A nice set of tyres will make it nicer and safer to drive.


http://www.classic-usa-cars.com/tire_business.html 

http://www.classic-usa-cars.com/ 

My xmas Beetle and his nice tyres

thanks for the information. much appreciated, set of tyres are next!

it was a bit hairy on the freeway today, especially when I was given a "fly by" from Rose's Newcastle mob LOL, they were flying!