TheSamba.com :: View topic - '58 ragtop on the road (and closser to it!) again!!

Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:33 pm

After a lot of work..
It drives!!!

Last summer I bought a scruffy '58 ragtop to replace my slammed '69..
It was repainted once or twice or whatever and an overall welded up but solid car.

The beginning

As I just couldn't see myself driving it on this 4x4 status the work began!
What did I do?
Compleet suspension and drum-to-drum overhaul, new interior (TMI covers and o.g. panels) removed indicators, electrics, replaced gearbox, 2" narowed beam, blasted and painted wheels, new shocks and so on, and so on...

The works:

ratlle can job on welded up indicator holes!

cleaned gearbox, I changed the axle boots for solids!!!

And the result:

This picture is from it's 200 mile testdrive on the day after I got it done!!!!
It was early, the back sag a lot during the day!

Pretty cool huh?

Maybe you saw it on a other topic but you can check out this movie I made for my club www.theundutchables.nl for it's first drive on it's new ride height!!!

More on the resurection on www.keverpech.nl

Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:06 pm

erwin, i remember before you were i rising outlaw and i had to take you to walmart for initiation.now you are a badass, connected to the most powerful crime family in all of europe. the UNDUTCHABLES!. not only that, you are also known as elvis aaron stok, the VJ with the freshest clips on BDMtV, yo. your ragtop looks hot as a scalded cat all laid out on smoothies with the primered hubcaps, no doubt a nod to the BDM. you guys look like the third panzer division rolling up the highway with bags of eggrolls from the chinese store next to your house.

Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:38 pm

I seen your bug in the video yestarday.....Very kewl car!

Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:56 pm

Thats sweet!

How in the world did you get that rattle can job to match so well?? I cant even see where the signal was in the pic..

Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:01 pm

UZI wrote: erwin, i remember before you were i rising outlaw and i had to take you to walmart for initiation.now you are a badass, connected to the most powerful crime family in all of europe. the UNDUTCHABLES!. not only that, you are also known as elvis aaron stok, the VJ with the freshest clips on BDMtV, yo. your ragtop looks hot as a scalded cat all laid out on smoothies with the primered hubcaps, no doubt a nod to the BDM. you guys look like the third panzer division rolling up the highway with bags of eggrolls from the chinese store next to your house.

Just doing my best G.!

Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:03 pm

STREETRAT_JHC wrote: Thats sweet!

How in the world did you get that rattle can job to match so well?? I cant even see where the signal was in the pic..

In person it's slightly visible because the filler set in after a while.
However, the color match is 100%.
Not bad for a can I just had laying around!!!!

Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:12 pm

props to the original dutch folks! your style is how you say, undutchable?

like mc hammer used ta say....can't dutch this!

Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:59 pm

Bad ass rag, bad ass rides. You guys know how to roll. Good video footage.

Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:33 am

I'm speachless! All those rides in the vid are all very well done! Just my style! Really makes me want my 60 BAD! Great job!

Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:38 am

Elvis Aaron Stok........you know I don't like Beetles, but European big window Rag Top Beetles.........I LIKE! This is the only model of Beetle I'd like to have. Maybe a Zwitter too! I don't remember if I saw it while passing through Delft on my way visiting my families tac-que-ria in the city center of Utrecht??? That bug will look bad ass on CRABS!!!

Gibbs and I are both orchestrating a trip out to Holland next year, touring with the 3rd Panzer Division, both BUDEL & BAD CAMBERG! Though I would like to cook up a typical peasant Mekkie dish while out there! Or outside of your garage. Give the Chinese Restaurant a run for it's cash!! I will bring the sauces/spices, tortillas, rice and beans for a Mekkie Fiesta!!
Shit, word may get out and aside of the 3rd Panzer Division being there, we maybe visited by the LUFTWAFFE & Zee U-BOAT units as well. Though the guest of honor and MC will be with no doubt, the liberator of the free world, Humanitarian, Lecturer, Philosopher & Reicht leader of the 3rd Panzer Division..................HERR OSKAR SCHINDLER!!!! VERSTEN SIE MICH!!! Though this time I will get CHU CHO (Jesus - the lost Mekkie in Berlin, Germany) to come out to Holland and hangout with us!!

Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:53 am

Wassup Johnny?
My bug can be your run-around vehicel while your here!
Just one problem, it's so f#cking low it gets stuck on the
bridges over the cannals here in my home-town!!!
No shiat!

Bring the french, german/mekkie and some BDM members when
you come over!
We'll have a garage-doorstep cook-out (people do that out here, REALLY!) and I'll hook up the DVD-player on to the TV that I have in the garage so we can watch "Der Untergang" while we enjoy some of your Carne ascada!

VERSTEHEN SIE MICH?

Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:28 pm

erwin, your beetle is lower than a dutch nuclear submarine. if your car is getting stuck on bridges, you're not going fast enough! remember when i nailed the steering box on the jurassic on those railroad tracks in fullerton? BAMM!!!! then a second later BBBAAAAMMMM!!!. JJlux saw the sparks from the other side of the intersection.

Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:57 pm

Photoshoot time!!!
Took it out for a spin and brought my camera with me...

The result:

Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:13 pm

i really don't have anything to say that you haven't heard before.

but FUCK that looks good.

Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:26 am

Nice pic's again, :D

I see you went to Vlaardingen!! K.w. harbour 645.!! 8)

AIRnoldus V. :wink:

Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:27 am

Yep!

Vlaardingen and Rotterdam.
Come to think of it... most shoots I do are in Rotterdam!

Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:19 am

keverpech wrote: Wassup Johnny?
My bug can be your run-around vehicel while your here!
Just one problem, it's so f#cking low it gets stuck on the
bridges over the cannals here in my home-town!!!
No shiat!

Bring the french, german/mekkie and some BDM members when
you come over!
We'll have a garage-doorstep cook-out (people do that out here, REALLY!) and I'll hook up the DVD-player on to the TV that I have in the garage so we can watch "Der Untergang" while we enjoy some of your Carne ascada!

VERSTEHEN SIE MICH?

For sure the French Kid and I will be there. Who knows who else will tag along. I remember the last time while in Delft, your next door neighbors, the college kids, were partying outside on the side walk. They had a couch outside. Remember that one? Then Elvis & Schmotzie were boning too! VERSTEHEN SIE MICH!!

Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:46 pm

keverpech wrote: Photoshoot time!!!
Took it out for a spin and brought my camera with me...

The result:

Just set the third pic on my desktop. Will be getting my 58 euro ragtop done in November.. Hopefully.. Very nice ride you got there.

Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:20 pm

ha, i set the second pic as my desktop.

Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:47 pm

Nice ride. Stock motor? Big plans?