Official Mexican / Brazilian Beetles - All years

Gerrelt · Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 10:43 am Post subject:

@hopkin: good that it didn't happen during your roadtrip!

I've spotted an American open-air, in one of the Chris Vallone video's.
To to 4 minute 24 seconds (or use this link):

Link

I haven't seen many red ones.
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hopkin · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 5:18 am Post subject:

Flanders NJ is about 8 hours from me. I had thought about going to this show, now I wish I had of gone.

I suspect the red Open Air is also a BeetleMex car, or similar (rebuilt onto an older chassis) due to the historic 'QQ' New Jersey license plate.

Here's a screen grab from the YouTube and also a picture of a red open air that I found a while ago. Do you think they are the same car, the tail lights are different but both have a similar third brake light:

Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen.

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1971 Super Beetle (past)
1974 SunBug (past)
1972 914 (past)
1991 Honda Civic (Original Owner)
1996 'Open Air' Mexican Beetle (current)
2015 Golf (current)
2017 Dune Edition (daughter's car)

kirk1015 · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 8:59 am Post subject:

hopkin · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 1:06 pm Post subject:

I was able to locate a new exact match tire (a new Cooper CS4) for my car, the CS4's have been discontinued for a while. I found the tire at a dealer in the states and had to travel to Ogdensburg, NY to pick it up.

The tire I replaced had very little tread wear, and it would had been a shame to put a non-matching tire on, or toss the other 3 just to have matching tread pattern. (The replacement CS5's have a different tread).

Here's a picture of the new and old tire (still in rim), and after I had it mounted:

Just after my flat tire, my gas gauge started to act up, it would drop to empty and 'float' up and down for a while, finally just read empty (yes, I had gas Very Happy

). Fortunately, for some reason I had ordered a spare float/sender from Antonio a couple years ago and was able to easily diagnose and quickly fix the problem:

The old one had yellowed quite a bit:

Meanwhile, I attended a show in Kitchener Ontario (the Berlin Klassik) a couple weeks back (I took the 'Scotland' picture on the way back) and won first in my class. The show is mostly water-cooled VW, Mercedes, Porsches, any German make. Not many Air-cooled there, so not much competition but still a nice win. They didn't know which class to put me in, so I was entered in the 68-79 Beetle class. They had never had a post '79 air-cooled Beetle enter before.

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1971 Super Beetle (past)
1971 Super Beetle (past)
1974 SunBug (past)
1972 914 (past)
1991 Honda Civic (Original Owner)
1996 'Open Air' Mexican Beetle (current)
2015 Golf (current)
2017 Dune Edition (daughter's car)

73sports · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 5:55 am Post subject:

hopkin · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:13 am Post subject:

My latest acquisition; a Spanish language advert for an Open Air, or should I say Escarabajo Convertible 1600i:

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1971 Super Beetle (past)
1971 Super Beetle (past)
1974 SunBug (past)
1972 914 (past)
1991 Honda Civic (Original Owner)
1996 'Open Air' Mexican Beetle (current)
2015 Golf (current)
2017 Dune Edition (daughter's car)

Gerrelt · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 10:36 am Post subject:

Thanks! I saved the scans.
This made me do a search with the word "Escarabajo" and "techo convertible" with which I found out that there are some open-airs in Spain and in Chile.

And I also found this advert:

Volkswagen Escarabajo Open-Air (97) by Yves 1976, on Flickr

Not sure where it's from, it might be Portugal? (edit: probably not, the add is in spanish, not in portugees...)
Familiar rims... Smile

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GArBa · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 12:18 pm Post subject:

I spot "punta arenas" in the text below, and the "$" symbol is also used for the chilean peso, so I'd guess it's from Chile.
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'97 type 1 1600i
~~'14 type AA Seat Mii~~ (sadly dead after 270.000 km)
'22 type C1 T-Cross
'23 type AC3 Hyundai I10 (VW no longer makes small cars!)
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hopkin · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 12:32 pm Post subject:

The original post on flickr for Gerrelt's scan says that the add is from Chile.

I bought my flyer from a seller in Spain (5 Euros).

On closer inspection, it appears that the importer (whose name is conspicuously not shown) liberally copied parts the 1995 VW of Mexico flyer (which I also have).

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1971 Super Beetle (past)
1971 Super Beetle (past)
1974 SunBug (past)
1972 914 (past)
1991 Honda Civic (Original Owner)
1996 'Open Air' Mexican Beetle (current)
2015 Golf (current)
2017 Dune Edition (daughter's car)

hopkin · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 6:11 am Post subject:

I was looking around on the internet last night and found these pictures of VW Vans, and look what's in the background, my car.

These pictures were taken in the UK at VW Evolution, a restoration shop that was next door from where I bought my car:

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1971 Super Beetle (past)
1971 Super Beetle (past)
1974 SunBug (past)
1972 914 (past)
1991 Honda Civic (Original Owner)
1996 'Open Air' Mexican Beetle (current)
2015 Golf (current)
2017 Dune Edition (daughter's car)

Galan_Paul · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 10:45 am Post subject:

Where can I find a roof kit like the one that is on this red beetle?

GArBa · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 11:37 am Post subject:

there are companies that can rebuild the soft top but the complete kit is AFAIK no longer available. try asking Antonio Trejo, he may be able to find a used one for you.

edit: just seen from your other posts that you have a '74 super, this kit won't work on your bug as it's intended for standard roofs.
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cars:
'97 type 1 1600i
~~'14 type AA Seat Mii~~ (sadly dead after 270.000 km)
'22 type C1 T-Cross
'23 type AC3 Hyundai I10 (VW no longer makes small cars!)
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moped:
'82 Benelli Magnum 3v

hopkin · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 6:33 am Post subject:

hopkin · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2015 4:45 pm Post subject:

I posted this on my facebook page, but I'll post it here as well.

It was 71F today (22C) record warm for November 5. (Usually snow by now). Bonus, we haven't had any weather cold enough for the roads to be salted.

The sun was out so I was able to go for nice drive with the roof open. I stopped at the waterfalls in Almonte, Ontario for a photo:

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1971 Super Beetle (past)
1971 Super Beetle (past)
1974 SunBug (past)
1972 914 (past)
1991 Honda Civic (Original Owner)
1996 'Open Air' Mexican Beetle (current)
2015 Golf (current)
2017 Dune Edition (daughter's car)

GArBa · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 12:32 pm Post subject:

Gerrelt

Nice work GArBa! That wiring now looks very clean! Cool

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Why do Mexican beetles kill their batteries if left un-driven for a couple of days? I have talked to a couple of other owners and they all mention the same issue. My 96 will kill the bat in about a week.

hopkin

Gerrelt

Mine doesn't do it either. Maybe it has something to do with the alarm module?
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