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Tue May 01, 2012 10:07 am

TjdTaylor wrote: got my shipment from dubkorps :D :D I love the shirt and stickers.

Nice! I needa get on that, I made over 600 bucks this weekend so I'm thinkin I can blow a little on shirts and stickers

Tue May 01, 2012 2:04 pm

there is acouple more that i wana get.

Sun May 06, 2012 6:56 pm

Is it just my crap computer, or is Dubkorps not working?

Also, I met a guy in my area who has a 1972 Beetle. It was originally savanna beige, and I told him that it looked like with the quality of the respray, he could probably get all that ugly yellow off pretty easily.

That brings the total Vdub census count in Memphis up to about, 20-25ish and maybe 30 if you count the ones that aren't drivable.

Mon May 07, 2012 2:57 pm

nice, i see you bought a dubkorps t shirt ;) yah it is down. their redoing the site right now.

Tue May 08, 2012 9:49 pm

put my new master cylinder on today, and now the brake lights don't work ughhhhh. I think I got bubbles in the switches or something.

Tue May 08, 2012 10:45 pm

you hook the wires up righttt? the switches point downward so the bubbles go out of them into the master cylinder. if your brakes are working your switches would bbe tooo

Wed May 09, 2012 12:07 pm

rtaylor wrote: you hook the wires up righttt? the switches point downward so the bubbles go out of them into the master cylinder. if your brakes are working your switches would bbe tooo

that makes sense, but I was lookin around and people were talking about pre filling em and I thought maybe that was my problem but your right the bubbles should come out on their own. They are the three prong type so there is really only way to hook em up and the brakes work great but I just can't get the lights to come on and it's really pissing me off. Ima test em with a meter when I can get somebody to press the pedal for me.

Wed May 09, 2012 9:45 pm

:lol: havin fun..

Thu May 10, 2012 4:54 am

did you just develope it or has it always been there?

Thu May 10, 2012 5:04 pm

Could come in handy, my friends jeep has a hole like that right between the seats. We call it the doobie disposal

Thu May 10, 2012 5:19 pm

gavin.dude wrote: Could come in handy, my friends jeep has a hole like that right between the seats. We call it the doobie disposal

had drug dogs come into the school today. Got pinched :( wish my math class had a doobie disposal :lol:

Thu May 10, 2012 6:37 pm

have any of you guys seen this? When i say it on tv i almost pissed myself i was so exited :D

Mon May 14, 2012 2:52 pm

I TALKED TO THE BODY SHOP GUY AND HE TOLD ME I CAN HAVE THE CAR BACK BY THE WEEKED :D :D :D

Thu May 17, 2012 7:34 pm

anyone in miami?

Tue May 22, 2012 1:35 pm

I really don't like the new new beetle, at least not when it's got those wheels on it. And the rear end still is ugly as ever.

In other news, I might be buying a '57 sedan shell for $150, and getting to scavenge some good parts from a few wrecked '68 bugs, and possibly buying a decent '68 gulf blue shell.

ALSO, I'm hopefully getting a job at a Porsche racing garage by next week!!! :D :D :D :D

Tue May 22, 2012 3:49 pm

wow great news. What will you be doing there? Also are you thinking on having another project or just cars to scrap bits and peices off of.

Wed May 23, 2012 8:56 am

Eh, sounds like I'd be doing alot of the clean up/organization around to shop,

and with the cars, if we got the '57, I think we'd just be chopping out the cancer, and trying to make a solid shell to re-sell.
If we get the '68 shell, we'd probably be trying to actually build it up into a functional car.

I kind of hope we get the '68 shell, but with the seller only asking $200 for the '57, we stand to make a decent amount of money off of that one once it's repaired.

Really I just want those pop-out windows!

Wed May 23, 2012 6:50 pm

Hell yeah!!!

I met a guy in my neighborhood a while back who had an old '80's porsche 911, and two bugs in storage.

Apparently, he just sold the porsche, and has decided to get rid of one of the Beetles.

I dunno what year it is, or what condition it's in, but he wants to give it away!!! Pan, body, and engine!

We're going to see it tomorrow, so I'll get some pics to show you guys how good/bad it is.
I have heard that while replacing the pans he tried to bolt them in instead of welding, so I really don't know exactly what to expect.

Thu May 24, 2012 4:58 am

exept the pans to be bolted in and not welded ;) Anyways, thats amazing. I freiken WISH i could get ANYTHING free around here. People charge you just to come look at the car. I went to go look at a beetle a few months back for a PARTS car, things didnt run (but turned over) had no pans and was cancer full. He wanted 10 bucks just to LOOK at it. I told him to f**k off and walked away. A free runing engine i would shit my pants over.

Thu May 24, 2012 3:27 pm

PICS! and there is a catch! :evil:

the garage the car is stored in is on the verge of collapse, so before we try to move the car, we have to cut down all the bushes around the garage, find a way inside, and brace it up. Also the car's beam is not installed, so we'll have to use a dolly to move it out, then re-install the beam to get it on a trailer.

But it's free! And if we can get the previously mentioned '68 wreck, then we'll have more than enough to build one Beetle.