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PostPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 5:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dropped65 wrote:
found and saved this 1960 ragtop
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Love the left fender.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 12:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My son sent me these pics over the cell phone earlier this week.

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He incidentally ran across this unmolested April 1958 Bug with only two owners and less than 87k on the odometer also nearly all stock right down to the old bias ply tires. Two dents on the left wings, but other than that a very, very nice score Cool . Has been sitting since 1992 so it would obviously need some TLC. I was told this is a part of a car collection of an elderly man reluctant to sell …
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 7:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thirty years ago, I lived down in Santa Cruz, and it was a gold mine for VW discoveries. I spent a few years obsessed with finding as many as I could. I had a great time, but a child on the way meant I had to grow up and concentrate on a real job. Fast forward to now, and 500 miles north of there, and it isn't quite as easy to find those nuggets sitting out in the open. Now we have CL, and that has changed everything. I happened to check it just late one night, a few days ago, and somebody had just posted a '59. I met up with the seller, and we struck a deal. The first VW project I've had in 26 years... it is pretty easy to reignite those fires.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 2:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

this 64 found its way to my shop

the front looks much better than the rear

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the tortion tube is bent back almost 5 inches
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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this 64 found its way to my shop

the front looks much better than the rear

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the tortion tube is bent back almost 5 inches


Richard and Trish's old Cinderella... Nice trade
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 6:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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dropped65 wrote:
this 64 found its way to my shop

the front looks much better than the rear

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the tortion tube is bent back almost 5 inches


Richard and Trish's old Cinderella... Nice trade


are they on here?
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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are they on here?


I don't believe so....
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just picked this baby up for 50$
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Still unclear on what year she really is... and really unsure what to do with her.
She has a (what I believe to be is a 1500cc single port engine) that is seized.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Just picked this baby up for 50$
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Still unclear on what year she really is... and really unsure what to do with her.
She has a (what I believe to be is a 1500cc single port engine) that is seized.


I think you did okay for $50- but I'm almost certain it's a 2000 or 2001 model Audi. It might say 1.8 or 2.7 on the tailgate... Cool
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 12:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hitest wrote:

I think you did okay for $50- but I'm almost certain it's a 2000 or 2001 model Audi. It might say 1.8 or 2.7 on the tailgate... Cool


hehehehe
Its a 99 with the 2.7t and a 01E 6spd all swaped in. Cool Came stock with the 2.8 and a 5spd manual.

With the optional bumper torn off because ran over a wild hog, and spare chrome wheels because the hog bent one package. (I normally run RS4 9spokes ) Embarassed
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://richmond.craigslist.org/cto/4270774046.html

Found this poor thing. Will no one come and save it?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dropped65 wrote:
this 64 found its way to my shop
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I love that pain job. Totally non-original, but still so... Beetle-ish.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 9:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I live too close to hippyville. LOL


I'll bet it was Haight-Ashbury. When I returned from Vietnam in 1969 I wanted to see what I had been missing.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dropped65 wrote:
thetinkerr wrote:
dropped65 wrote:
this 64 found its way to my shop

the front looks much better than the rear

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the tortion tube is bent back almost 5 inches


Richard and Trish's old Cinderella... Nice trade


are they on here?


He is a youtuber, Goes by RPeek

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU-jzNSH-N5-bLG-gyUMbKg

There are a few videos on the car there. And how the damage happened.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Casey's_67 wrote:
dropped65 wrote:
this 64 found its way to my shop
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I love that pain job. Totally non-original, but still so... Beetle-ish.

here's the Youtube vid;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypoMl8hlRXk
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 11:58 am    Post subject: 1959 garnet red ragtop Reply with quote

Ive been driving by this bug for like 10 years and never stopped, I was always on vacation when driving by, it always had a pile of stuff on it and I didn't know it was a rag, this bug has been parked since 1982, lucky that he put 4x4's under it so it never sunk into the ground, pan is in great shape, cleaning it up today and trying to get it to start in the next couple days
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did they baja the rear end?? What a shame! But still a cool project. Good luck!
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very neat. With that roof rack and the old school baja, I think Id leave it
"in situ".
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

nice find Applause
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:02 pm    Post subject: Re: 1959 garnet red ragtop Reply with quote

twistedbug wrote:
Ive been driving by this bug for like 10 years and never stopped, I was always on vacation when driving by, it always had a pile of stuff on it and I didn't know it was a rag, this bug has been parked since 1982, lucky that he put 4x4's under it so it never sunk into the ground, pan is in great shape, cleaning it up today and trying to get it to start in the next couple days
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Always at it! Rewarded big time here : ) Great find John!
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