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AlteWagen
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 Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 7:16 pm Post subject: Re: 58-60 "Early Big Window" Convertible Registry |
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| kaieric wrote: |
don't worry - i'm not going to pass into silence.
any idea about the colour request? |
The only way you might be able to find the original color for the body would be to look in places that are difficult to strip. On a vert you can pull the trunk lock to see if they actually pulled it apart for paint or just masked. Under the gas tank on the front firewall may work but your front clip (not sure if its a 1/2 or full clip including dash) has been replaced. If the rear of the vehicle was not altered the best place Ive seen was the channel for the engine seal. With the work quality demonstrated I doubt they pulled the seal remnants to sand out the slot in the channel. Depending how much of the body shell existed when it was chosen for build up the last place to check would be under the small aluminum plates where the top hinge is.
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kaieric 
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 3:54 am Post subject: Re: 58-60 "Early Big Window" Convertible Registry |
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so, as i wrote, they met a rhd vert body on a rhd sedan pan. i got birth certificates from vw for both stating that the sedan was build on 10.6.1958 and delivered completely knocked down to south africa. vert was build on 15.8.1958 and it's colour was alabaster, remnants of which i've found on the speedo cable tubing and under new old laquer in some interior spots at door hinge attachments. with its body# 47904 it actually can hardly be a 2/57 body.
pan wasn't welded and has its mounting plate for split trans prior to 8/59 when they altered the suspension of the driving unit, thus according to its vin#.
subsequent to my first euphoric entry from when i got the car newly delivered at home, i found it a confusing blend of asynchronies and i understood that quite a number of parts (and even more) weren't as untouched as i had expected.
more i examined it more i discerned its specific conditions as to what had been modified over the years: support channels were replaced but are looking sound, rear apron has been replaced as well as they did with the wrong decklid.
front is original as well as the fenders except the rear left one which is spare part. semaphore pockets seem org but sedan semaphores are installed.
some mecanics like break drums and shockers had suffered from negligence while the car was an insignificant part of a collection.
my heirs are obviously happy with the bug  i'm not less, and inheritance is secured nonetheless 
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kaieric
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 5:03 am Post subject: Re: 58-60 "Early Big Window" Convertible Registry |
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i've seen all these great samples but they don't shed light upon the question how accessories were finalized in early verts before vw better documented it in subsequent publications. i've read various times of l471 stone beige being the colour of choice but since glasurit is offering two different shades under this denomination i got unsure about plausibility of that assertion.
how comes that everybody deems l471 being the right thing when even vw remains silent on that matter? more than rumours? |
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kaieric
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2023 6:11 am Post subject: Re: 58-60 "Early Big Window" Convertible Registry |
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| AlteWagen wrote: |
Your body/chassis vin is from 6/58, while the 'document' is 8/58. The worst part is the vin plate on the body is a poor reproduction with incorrect rivets and wrong number stamps. The stamped body number under the fake vin plate comes back to as 2/57 which makes sense as VW dropped its use in 6/58. With that you know there was some SERIOUS damage to the front of the vehicle at some point
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would be helpful to featuring birth certificate as to show how car was configurated.
referring to Progressive Refinements, stamping of body# was omitted at #47935 for cabs in 8/58. having found no evidence for subsequent modification of the body front i may assume that the cab is one of the last units stamped, digits not looking bad either. call me credulous. |
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sinclair
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2023 6:08 am Post subject: Re: 58-60 "Early Big Window" Convertible Registry |
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| kaieric wrote: |
| great car. do you have some more pics for us? |
Thanks
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kaieric
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| Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2023 3:43 pm Post subject: Re: 58-60 "Early Big Window" Convertible Registry |
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| Karmann Gheezer wrote: |
Getting closer.
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some progress? |
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AlteWagen
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Oddacre65
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| Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2023 12:33 pm Post subject: Re: 58-60 "Early Big Window" Convertible Registry |
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Oddacre65
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| Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2023 12:39 pm Post subject: Re: 58-60 "Early Big Window" Convertible Registry |
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Hi,
I am in the UK and am close to finishing a full restoration of an early '60 convertible Beetle in its original Sargasso Green. It will be 100% stock apart from an Okrasa upgrade to the original 30hp engine.
I am having real difficulty getting the front quarter light and door windows aligned properly after I disassembled the frames for chroming. I would appreciate any advice and photographs that might help. I pressed the glass back into the window frame but it is tight up against the felt channel set into the quarterlight upright. The frames and glass are original to the car so I cannot understand where I have gone wrong.
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Chris |
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