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 OldTimer
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| posted on February 17th, 2014 at 06:47 PM |
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An inspiration to us all - thanks for sharing. 
air is cool, but air-cooled is cooler!
1967 Aussie Built Type 1 1915 Deluxe
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Super1302
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| posted on February 17th, 2014 at 08:07 PM |
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Great work, super tidy ride, well done. 
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sander288
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| posted on February 18th, 2014 at 04:21 PM |
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love to hear a video of the ghetto abarth! awesome job !
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NUG637
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| posted on February 24th, 2014 at 11:33 AM |
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Here is a pretty shitty video of it idling... Sounds nice with the twin carbs sucking under load 
http://youtu.be/UbKoUcqNkIE
I'm really happy with it and would make another one tomoro over buying the ones on the net.... Everyone I know with one has had to repair it
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| posted on February 24th, 2014 at 09:15 PM |
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Lumpy sounds fabulous - and looks the goods too, you must be stoked !
Ps that type 3 panel looks sweet too !
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| posted on July 24th, 2014 at 09:22 PM |
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Reckon I saw this little beast putting around nerang in the late afternoon past my work today, if it was it sounded just beautiful! Wish I got a
better look
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| posted on July 24th, 2014 at 10:13 PM |
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You have got to be kidding-first time I have seen this story about the rebirth of the Oval.I thought I was pretty "anal" about restoring stuff-you
win.That is the most amazing restoration of anything I have ever seen.You are a legend.
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| posted on July 24th, 2014 at 10:55 PM |
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I am in awe of anyone who takes on this type of task. Fantastic and what a beautiful beetle
Nothing beats cruising in my Beetle
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NUG637
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| posted on July 26th, 2014 at 09:00 AM |
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Thanks guys... She's a great rig and I love it to bits as I guess it's the car I cut my teeth on.... I want to do a few touch up in the near future
after being my daily for the past 6 months but she is defenly the car I always dreamed of. Aircooledjake, I hope it wasn't my car cus I have been
down in port Macquarie for the past week lol might have to go check the garage....
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| posted on July 26th, 2014 at 10:19 AM |
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posted by NUG637
I have been down in port Macquarie for the past week lol
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You have been down here and didn't come and say g'day! Snobby bastard. :-)
I better catch up with you at Valla then.
From your ole' mate Jeff
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NUG637
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| posted on July 26th, 2014 at 04:41 PM |
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flew to Newcastle and have been bringing a boat up
to brissy via port Macquarie. So weren't in anything cool this time.... Unless your into power cats? 
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| posted on July 26th, 2014 at 06:44 PM |
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Well it was a very similar colour NUG hahah, wish I got some pics of the other one now for a better look
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| posted on August 14th, 2014 at 12:35 AM |
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Just read all the way thru your thread dude. Brilliant work there and well done
Doing a 56 meself at present.
Did you say you did the body spray job yourself? If so what kinda of water filter/trap do you use on your airline to stop moisture and oil in the
paint?
And who'd you order the carpet kit from? Looks good.
I'm just doing the heater channels on mine and noticed the outlets on mine are a good foor further forward than yours and so wondered what year
carpet kit you ordered?
Sorry for the questions just hoping mine turns out as nice as yours.
Cheers,
Mike
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NUG637
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| posted on August 14th, 2014 at 03:42 PM |
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correct, i sprayed the shell myself…. Al lent me his booth and let me go hell for leather  beginners luck i think… haven't managed to get the same finish ever again which worries me cus i wanna fix a few
blemishes as i have had abit of "bridging" in the concave corners of my deckled and hood which seems to be abit of gassing from the high build under
the 2pac. Must of laid it on a little heavy in these area's. The only thing is i don't want the blends to be "rougher" if that makes sense as The
setup in our shed might not be as nice as Das…. it laid silky smooth in the booth with Al's set up
The carpet kit is from Newton in the uk and i highly recommend it but next time i would spend a little extra and get the square weave. But that is a
very minor change to what i got. I ask them to send out the kick panel pieces with no holes for the heater vents so i could put them in myself once i
had the piece of carpet sitting where i wanted…. they sent out the alloy surround with the kit to finish of the edging for the heater vents…
did abit of work to this rear end of this thing the other week…
had those hard red bushes on my adjustable spring plates and they have been squeaking like fuck! bought some OEM rubber bushes a while back for a
rainy day…. half way through putting the rear end back together…. i thought ill just look over these adjusters like i always do with the rear
wheels off….. guess i have never fully trusted them but took the risk anyway…. well this time i noticed a big old crack through the weld on the
adjuster blokes…. fuck…. checked the other side…. exactly the same….
so out with the adjustable plates and the shorter torsions bars… half the guards off to get the bars past the guards and then back together with the
original notched long snout plates…
much better… and a little lower to 
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| posted on August 14th, 2014 at 05:17 PM |
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very very very nice
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| posted on August 15th, 2014 at 01:01 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by NUG637
correct, i sprayed the shell myself…. Al lent me his booth and let me go hell for leather beginners luck i think… haven't managed to get the same finish ever again which worries me cus i wanna fix a few
blemishes as i have had abit of "bridging" in the concave corners of my deckled and hood which seems to be abit of gassing from the high build under
the 2pac. Must of laid it on a little heavy in these area's. The only thing is i don't want the blends to be "rougher" if that makes sense as The
setup in our shed might not be as nice as Das…. it laid silky smooth in the booth with Al's set up
The carpet kit is from Newton in the uk and i highly recommend it but next time i would spend a little extra and get the square weave. But that is a
very minor change to what i got. I ask them to send out the kick panel pieces with no holes for the heater vents so i could put them in myself once i
had the piece of carpet sitting where i wanted…. they sent out the alloy surround with the kit to finish of the edging for the heater vents…
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Ah, well that was fortunate. Means he'll have a proper air dryer etc to take care of that problem. There seems to be a few DIY tricks for water
removal using lengths of copper tubing finished with 2 or 3 filters of finer and finer screens with a final filter screwed into the sprayguns handle.
Just a case of using the tissue paper method to verify the filtering results
Was thinking of Newton carpets. Expensive? Useful about the blank kickpanel pieces too.
Shame about those adjustable plates. I've heard many people say they fail and the block actually snapped off on many. Trouble of putting so much
weight on a small area along with welding spring and normal steel together.
Glad you got it sorted tho with the old plates
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| posted on August 15th, 2014 at 08:55 AM |
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lookin good
[size=4] '59 or Kombi?....feeling confused [/size]
'59 bug
'68 bug
'82 import T3 BUS. aircooled
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| posted on August 31st, 2014 at 12:03 PM |
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Looks awesome!
Whats with the ford repair tool on the floor next to it 
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