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 Menangler
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| posted on June 12th, 2005 at 05:55 PM |
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Finished my '54 Beetle *now sold*
This has been a big project, on and off over the last 18 months,
I bought is as an unfinished project, in a million bits, everything was apart, and I mean everything. It was all painted and just needed putting
togeather, sounds easy right!!!.
I wanted it to look like a stocker with a few upgrades to make it drive nice.
It is a 1954 shell on a '69 IRS pan, 365 Porsche chrome wheels, wide 5 Type 3 rear drums and a Sol-Cal wide 5 disc brake kit up front.
Paint is 2 pac pearl white, pan and suspension is all 2 pac black.
Interior was made by Rod Penrose, made to look like stock with a few small changes, He did a fantastic job too.
Engine is a rebuilt 1600 with twin Kadrons and a tuck away muffler, gearbox is an "L" bug.
Goes in for rego on Friday, then it will be 4 sale.
[Edited on 12-6-2005 by Dave Becker]nn[ Edited on 10-7-2005 by Dave Becker ]
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| posted on June 12th, 2005 at 05:59 PM |
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beautiful job
pity your gunna sell it
anyway some lucky driver awaits it!
did i happen to mention that it is beautiful..
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| posted on June 12th, 2005 at 06:08 PM |
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man you are a freak .. you turn out more bugs a yer than most in a lifetime ...
Cool bug though ..
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| posted on June 12th, 2005 at 07:35 PM |
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Love the interior especially! very cool
speeding is bad!
relax - god's in charge
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| posted on June 12th, 2005 at 07:37 PM |
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Mate, HOLY CRAP!!! That thing looks like it just got out of the bloody factory. Absolutely looks brand new and so clean.
OMG mate, when u put that on the market, its gonna be sold quickly for sure. Thats absolutely beautiful. You certainly have a gift for restos 
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| posted on June 12th, 2005 at 08:17 PM |
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Dave
great job, very nice resto, looks the piece, congrats
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| posted on June 12th, 2005 at 08:23 PM |
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Dave,
Excellent job . . looks like many hours of blood, sweat and tears went into it . . .
How much ?
Bill
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| posted on June 12th, 2005 at 08:37 PM |
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Dave
pity you sold the baby stroker.
that would have been REAL nice with a few ponies in it
Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on June 12th, 2005 at 08:43 PM |
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Wow... that looks amazing, immaculate, beautiful, wonderful, amazing... |
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| posted on June 12th, 2005 at 10:39 PM |
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wow..
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| posted on June 12th, 2005 at 11:07 PM |
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It's beautiful Dave... but you always have quality dubbs...I can't beleive you're selling it ....but as others have said someone will get a very
nice little sleeper 
The interior looks fantastic...nice work
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| posted on June 13th, 2005 at 08:27 AM |
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very very nice dude!
Man I wish I had a standard oval to go with my slightly modified bug......:thumb
Reub
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| posted on June 13th, 2005 at 09:17 AM |
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very swet looking oval dave great work
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| posted on June 13th, 2005 at 11:11 AM |
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Nice car Dave, can you tell me what month it is,
Thanks
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| posted on June 13th, 2005 at 11:39 AM |
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neat as a pin
show us your gates
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| posted on June 13th, 2005 at 01:58 PM |
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very nice
how much do u want for it?
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| posted on June 13th, 2005 at 02:08 PM |
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Yep - straight to the point Dave - how much?
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Menangler
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| posted on June 13th, 2005 at 05:14 PM |
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Thanks Guys,
The car is already under offer by a guy who has been watching the resto for the last few months, If he doesn't end up buying it, it will be 4 sale
for around the $13500.00 range, you couldn't build one for that.
Turbo54, it's a March '55, original chassis number was
1-850079
Barry, the baby stroker was for this car, but would have blown the cost out of the ball park!!, It goes nice with the 1600, and is much quieter.
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| posted on June 13th, 2005 at 05:54 PM |
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That's awesome ! Was only saying today that I really wanted to add an oval to my fleet of cars !
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| posted on June 13th, 2005 at 11:46 PM |
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Beautiful! Very neat little oval
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| posted on June 14th, 2005 at 08:10 AM |
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Very very nice Dave, next project?
Please, I need drivers side window regulator (winder mechanism) for my '54  |
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| posted on June 14th, 2005 at 10:37 AM |
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Fantastic work Dave - very tidy little resto - I am sure someone would be very happy to drive this one away!
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| posted on June 14th, 2005 at 03:15 PM |
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Great work
standard looking with a shaken not stirred mods
Lovely
Cheers Doc
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| posted on June 14th, 2005 at 03:23 PM |
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Top work Dave, must be a great number to drive!
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| posted on June 14th, 2005 at 04:28 PM |
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Looks fantastic.
Could you please tell us what happens with getting it registered with regards to seatbelts and blinkers? Do the papers say it is a 54 or a 69?
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| posted on June 18th, 2005 at 05:37 PM |
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Registered no worries as a '69, that is what the chassis is, after a phone call to the RTA, we found it can be registered as a '69 with semaphores
and with out seat belts as it is a pre ADR ('73) car.
Seat belts will be fitted when the brown ones on order turn up!.
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| posted on June 18th, 2005 at 05:38 PM |
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Nice Dave, anymore pics?
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| posted on June 18th, 2005 at 07:22 PM |
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if i didnt know the date today id say it was brand new
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| posted on June 18th, 2005 at 10:04 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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if i didnt know the date today id say it was brand new
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Better than new! Or it would be wearing skinny tyres and no twin carbies!!
Thanks Dave for the rego details.
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| posted on June 19th, 2005 at 06:34 PM |
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damn dave. you are crazy. Top quality work in a short amount of time!
Jon
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