'49 (kindo) HOT ROD bug
ruckus - October 31st, 2005 at 04:47 PM
Wow this is abitious!
on VZi:
http://www.volkszone.com/VZi/showthread.php?t=205329
pyr0 - October 31st, 2005 at 06:09 PM
ill bet he upset alot of people the day that got cut 
kroozzn63 - October 31st, 2005 at 06:24 PM
cant wait too see it done .Its surely a graft from a trashed split beetle
beerdoc - October 31st, 2005 at 06:25 PM
abitious!
Will you stop using big words teacher man
I agree pyro
WABaja - November 1st, 2005 at 01:52 AM
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this project started
out as a pile of early body sections, with nothing much to join them together, no powerplant or chassis, just a general idea of what i wanted at the
end!
i bought this off ebay first- its a cowl, dash, A-pillars and screen brow from a '49 split oval. the a pillars were bolloxed, particularly around the
demister vents. good job id be cutting half a foot out of them i was rather pissed the glovebox and dash panel trims shown went 'missing' even
though i was assured they were included. robbing c#*%. i also bought a rear screen clip, inner and outer skins, but the vents were also rotted out.
i figured i needed something to attach these 2 sections together so a bit of trading around netted me this '63-'64 shell in exchange for shortening
the chassis that was under it. at first glance it looks pretty good, especially as it was sandblasted, but the work done on it was truly terrible, the
new channels were held in more by the seam sealer than the weld!!
but, it served the purpose i needed it for perfectly- to use as a kind of jig to locate all the other panels i was using. currently the only panels
left off it are half the firewall, most of the rear 1/4s not including the arches, a couple of bits of roof gutter, and the front 1/4s and A-pillars
(and the 1/4s will be being replaced soon!)
why a pre-64?
because as i cut sections out and threw them away, i could recycle bits of the roof into the roof chop, as you need donor sections from another car to
chop a bug, and i needed them to be 'fat pillar' to match the early roof bits i had.
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pyr0 - November 1st, 2005 at 06:44 AM
well there ya go people shouls thank him cause it turns out he's saving em 
its all good
pete wood - November 23rd, 2005 at 10:21 AM
I'm looking forward to seeing more on this car. Where did you find the write up?
ruckus - November 23rd, 2005 at 09:36 PM
the link's at the top of the post mate
Doug Sweetman - November 24th, 2005 at 01:39 PM
This thing is going to be crazy.... its got like 430hp 7.2L v8 slated for it 
Anthiron - November 24th, 2005 at 01:41 PM
any pics of the black hot rod bug in the shed?
Peter Leonard - December 2nd, 2005 at 09:50 PM
good to see some concepts are still being pushed. not toooo sure about the idea of a v8 crammed into it, but hey, we alll have stories.
:bounce
Rural Baja - January 8th, 2006 at 04:43 PM
Can't wait to see it finished!!