1972 1302S Refresh/Rebuild

[1302Felix]

This is my '72 1600cc 1302S.
I bought it as my first car over 4 years ago with 44,000 (verified) miles on the clock. After 16,000 miles with me and 4 years outside in the British weather, it's time for some work.

The main objectives are welding to the rear arches, doors and an engine rebuild. But I also plan to get it sprayed in it's original Kasan Red and to give it a sort of 70's street look (black side stripe, big Hella fogs and dished, shiny GT wheels).

I'm currently in France, working as a teaching assistant to build up some funds for this project, but I finish in April and am very excited to get going on it.

If anyone has any suggestions (or lives near me to the South of London and can offer some much needed assistance ) please let me know. We've had lots of Dubs but I'm a proper amateur and need any help I can get. Updates will be slow to start but I'll try to keep this going

Enjoy!

[DeathTrap]

I don't see it needing anything.
So your Refresh/Rebuild
sounds to be more
customize, modify, and personalize.

I'm sure you can source what you need.

nice car, bummer
each his own

[1302Felix]

hahaha,

Didn't think my mention of a vinyl stripe and some fog lights would upset the purists. It's a lovely original car and I plan to keep it that way, nothing irreversible. also you don't see it needing anything because you have 4 not very good pictures of the car in front of you, I have 4 years of owning and driving it behind me

[Bruskyvw]

which wheels are on there now? I'd love to have mine back to that silver color.
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[joey1320]

Great looking car. I would lower the front a bit and continue to drive it happily. Other than maintenance and needed repairs, none else needed here
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[1302Felix]

[Buggeee]

That is a good looking Super for sure. The red is a nice color and how lucky can you be to have that be the factory color - so all the inside and under hood stuff already has it

If by welding the rear arches you mean behind and below the rear window vents, I have seen a lot of threads on here about that area. You could probably search with "death foam" to find some of the threads because there is insulating foam in there that holds water and lots of people have to sort out that trouble spot.

On the wheels I just saw a thread on here with a guy who picked up a super with those, but the rear ones were 5.5 inches wide and the front were 4.5. The wide ones came from some particular model bug and locating some of those would save a heap of work on widening the wheels.
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[1302Felix]

These are fairly old pics, the paint is quite awful these days and does need doing quite badly, this just means it makes sense to tackle the welding and other bits I've always wanted to do. I appreciate the car for what it is, so don't worry everyone it's not getting bagged and chopped...

[Buggeee]

Here is the link to the build that has your wheels, with 4.5 up front but they are 5.5 in the back and they talk about the model that had those. Hope it saves you some crazy welding!
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=667695
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[Mikedrevguy]

Seems the sport wheels are making a resurgence.
I've got them on my 74 1303. The 5.5" 914 versions with the ET40 offset in front sit nicely within the wheel well. And the 5.5"bug versions with ET26 fill the rear well.
Though am considering widening the fronts to 7" and rears to 8". Maybe bumping diameter to 16"?
We will. Just money, right?
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[1302Felix]

Well, she's at the shop!
It was a hairy 15 or so miles (hadn't been driven in a while) but couldn't be in better hands really. Vacuum leak has been rectified and apparently is running sweet again. I'm busy with work at the moment so the garage is going to carry out a service and give me an estimate for the welding that needs doing (he said on the phone to prepare for the worst, looks worse than first thought...)

[1302Felix]

Uh Oh!
Went to check on the Bug today and my mechanic has uncovered this nice surprise - the rare "Tyre Tread inspection access hole" option.
He's getting going on the welding and the car should be back in my drive and (vaguely) road legal next week.
I'm going to do the brakes, ball joints and sort a few electrical gremlins before I get it to a bodyshop for a paint quote and an idea of what needs doing.

[Dodgy]

[1302Felix]

After 2 long months and most of my savings, the bug is back with a working horn, a *mostly* solid chassis and an MOT!

Washing the moss off it was as far as I got today - hottest day so far in England is not the day for aircooled shenanigans. Tomorrow I'm going to write a job list

[nx6h]

Nice to see you kept the correct number plates . There seems a real recent fashion to fit black pressed plates to seventies cars .

[Buggeee]

That looks a whole lot better! They did a nice job closing up that hole.
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[Tim Donahoe]

Nice car. If that's all the rust you found, you'll be okay.

As far as weather here in Northern California, we got to 113 F here yesterday. I don't know what that is in Celcius, but it's not a good day to walk my Westies (dogs, not buses). It's also a good day to drive my deal sol with air conditioning. I don't drive my bug when it gets close to 100 F. I'm getting too old for that shit, I guess. And it really messes up my hair .

Tim
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[1302Felix]

I did have some black pressed plates but the originals are so much cooler.

Having done a bit of a walk around today I've decided that the priority is to get two solid doors and a drivers' front wing on this thing (if anyone knows of any in the South-East of England or near Birmingham please let me know)

Apart from that, it needs all new door and window seals and other perished bits. I probably won't replace these until it's been painted.

Speaking of which, could someone please do me a quick step by step on how to prep this car for the paint shop, it's going same colour but I need to make it as cheap as poss so would like to do everything except hold the paint gun myself!

Thanks very much!

[1302Felix]

Visited a VW breaker today before work and managed to score two solid late model doors for £150 which is quite a deal imo.

They came off the black bug pictured and have been modified to fit one-piece windows but I'll be putting my quarter lights in.

The red bug here is a reminder of how bad things could have been for mine!

[1302Felix]

Fitted a new exhaust today, finally got some taper tips back on, much prefer the sound and look.

Unfortunately the blow I could hear was coming from just behind the muffler, on the J-Tube, so that's another job for my friend's list of things to weld...