Post your GTBeetle here / VW1300-S

[bugoyking]

Hello guys!

Please post your VW 1300-S' or GT Beetle here!

Thanks guys!

[ampegboy1]

Hi Bugoyking,

Here's mine - my current squeeze:

And my previous GT (now no longer with us ):

Michael
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1973 GT Beetle

[bugoyking]

Nice GT Sir Ampegboy1! How come you've sell a very precious one?

[ampegboy1]

Oh, I didn't sell her - a 17-year-old cretin broadsided me with a company van and wrote her off. I was able to buy the wreck back but, with nowhere to store her, I had to remove the few GT-specific parts I could store and get rid of the remains. If I had a garage or driveway I'd have repaired her.

She had a great history too - the PO's mother bought the car new in 1973, drove it until she gave up driving aged 82 and handed it down to her (grown-up) son who had it for two years but never drove it. He sold her to my girlfriend about 6 years ago and I took her on a bit later. Essentially a two-owner car I always enjoyed the thought of an 82-year-old woman screaming around Dorset in a yellow GT Beetle

My current one also has a bit of a story - I saw her parked up in my town once whilst driving the yellow one and left a note on the windscreen asking if she was a GT (at the time she was missing all the GT-secific parts bar the wheels and colour). The owner got back to me and offered me first refusal as he happened to be selling but, as I had the yellow one, I declined. Just after the yellow one was written off my mum was having some work done on her Passat and asked the mechanic (bug specialist) if he knew of any GTs for sale and he pointed her towards a red one being sold by another client of his. He gave her a picture of it and it was the same one, being sold by the next owner!

Regards,

Michael
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1973 GT Beetle

[bugoyking]

Oh I see! Im sorry to misunderstood you! You have such great story of the history on aquiring your beetle. I got mine from an old dentist man and the GT was his first car. When i took her the color is different already and they did not pattern the paint into its original color. I just bought a Porsche 914 2Liter wheels for Boogie (my GT's name) last month, so if you look at it it just looks kike an ordinary late beetle. Do you have an dea if where can we get GTBEETLE badge?

[ampegboy1]

Hi again,

"GT Beetle" badges are usually found in the same aisle as the hens' teeth and rocking horse poo - they're extremely rare! "VW 1300 S" badges seem to come up a little more often. That said, there's been two GT badges and a 1300S badge on eBay recently, one of which is still running - item number 250178984151.

The trouble with them is that they break very easily, usually between the "GT" and the "Beetle" - the originals were made from plastic, most likely because the run was so small (only 2,500 cars) that it wasn't worth VW's while tooling up to cast them in metal. I've never seen an unbroken original for sale. My dad had two GTs in the '70's and the badges broke on both - even back then replacements were impossible to find. A common solution is to glue the badge back together and paint it to hide the join, hence some GTs have black badges instead of the original silver. Even in a broken state, they command a high price - the "GT Beetle" badge sold on eBay recently was broken into three pieces and still sold for £50! For comparison, the "VW 1300 S" badge, complete but a little on the tatty side, sold for just £6 and is just as correct for a GT, even if it's not quite as special

There's a Yahoo group for GT Beetle/1300S owners here:

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/GTBeetles/

I think your best bet for finding a badge is to keep an eye out at shows and swapmeets and check in on eBay from time to time.

Regards,

Michael
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1973 GT Beetle

[coxy]

This is mine
Just had a body off resto over tha last 4 yrs.
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Start of resto
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[coxy]

My GT Beetle badge - nice shiny metal Picked it up at EBI this summer.
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[bugoyking]

Hi Michael! Thanks for sharing! I just got lucky when I found my VW1300-S script thru my friend Jimmy. When once on his shop they were selling a 1300-S beetle. I j ust had my v-o-l-k-s-w-a-g-e-n script traded to that badge. I guess all of us owners of GT beetle are aiming for having taht GT badge. I just wish someday I can find one on my doorstep.... ( hahaha! Im daydreaming! )


Mr. COXY!

WOW!!!! That is the kind of badge that I am looking for! Wanna sell it to me? You have a very fine GT beetle there huh! Very nice bug bro! What happened to your bug on the picture?

Nice new wheels also bro! Is that the one they call gas burners?

[coxy]

Glad you like it.
The new wheels are Porsche 2 litre replicas.
I came around the corner to find the road flooded and I slid across and into the ditch

[DONGKG]

Sip, Bugoyking? Very Nice thread, indeed!

Wow, coxy! That was really an ordeal you underwent negotiating your way in that flooded street!

At least, your GT is okay now!

Keep us posted.
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'66 Type 3 (Sharky 2)
'72 Type 2 Homey
'67 Splitty Bus
'65 beetle;'69 Country Buggy; '44 Kubelwagen (replica) TOOB MEMBER #20

[bugoyking]

[migsmagic]

can I ask for the engine and transmission code of 1300s? most 1300s here in my country had changed their glasses, scraped the nipple dot on the dashboard corner, changed the shifter as well.. so what's left to check if its a true 0s is its engine and transmission.. thanks!

[ampegboy1]

The UK GT Beetle/1300S came with an AD-code engine and an AS-code transmission.

Michael
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1973 GT Beetle