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Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:36 am

@Espinosa: Oh, I just posted in Finnish! Because I´m originally from Finland, too!

In short: I´m excited about the following changes... :D

Best regards
Markus

Fri Feb 20, 2004 2:12 am

Soon she will be released from the Barn... :twisted:

Added some new pictures from the barn taken yesterday:

Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:43 pm

I think it was on Oldbug.com, they made a Heb out of an early 60's bug and it turned out great, youre's is lookin pretty sweet too.

Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:30 am

Yes, I know Randy Carlson and have been in contact with him about his Heb quite a while ago. It too was a pretty rough project from the start...

The Rosenstiel Roadster

Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:13 am

One more.... :twisted:

Sat Nov 27, 2004 4:56 am

A short update. I have not had time to visit The Samba for a while.
Since last time I have now installed the double fuellines for the K-Jet I'm installing in it.

I had to replace the framehead on the original '52 floorpan because it was totally crapped... So I decided to install the fuellines inside the tunnel as the originals at the same time. As soon as I get the pan together and all suspension parts installed I will take some pics of it.

Then I can place the body back on its original pan again. 8)

Mon Nov 29, 2004 3:11 pm

What year body is that built on? Looks like 60 - 62 ish? It's a hell of a job! :)

Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:51 am

It's based on the 1952 body with some parts from one -63 (the heaterchannels) and one -65 body (rear sidepanels and frontquarterpanels).... :wink:

The floorpanel is from the same 1952 as the remains of the body.

Thu Jan 06, 2005 6:01 am

Brought it out because I needed to use the -63 pan that it is sitting on to make a jig for framehead replacement. I needed that for the original -52 pan that The Hebster will get back on soon. :wink:

Here it sits in the middle of the blizzard...

Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:47 pm

NorCalRiviera wrote: Heheheh, didja see my pics in the gallery already? Next thing, I'll grind off the mounting points underneath the pan...I'll never screw them to their bases again and get them even lower!!

-Taylor (stock height's not right...for models at least)

That's exactly what I did to my model. I took the dremel and ground off the bottom after notching out the seats and a few other interior parts.
It still rolls perfectly. I'm going to try and get the rear lower and still allow it to roll.

Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:20 pm

A couple of years back someone took a fake heb to the Phx. bug-o-rama that looked halfway decent.

Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:40 am

I guess that was Randy Carlson with this:
http://www.oldbug.com/heb.htm

It is a very nice repro too! :wink:

Mon May 02, 2005 1:51 pm

So, Finally I have some good news! I got the Hebster's original 1952 chassie back together and rolling.

Here fitted with slightly widened stock 15 front wheels and 205/55's on 6.5x16 in rear wheels. :D

And Finally one peek into my garage after the body and chassie have joined together again. Now I will weld the floopanhalves and start working on the remaining bodywork. :D

Tue May 10, 2005 9:15 am

Get the work started :wink:

Wiebrand

Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:25 am

how far are you whit the project

gr.sander

Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:09 am

This far for the moment... :wink:

I'm also working on strenghtening the windscreen frame.

It's going slow but I'm getting closer. :D

Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:51 pm

Here is my speedo with pod

And some metalshaping... Anybody guess what I'm making?

Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:10 pm

Whoohoo!! :D Finally did some updates on my Homepage... :lol:

Mon Aug 15, 2005 6:34 pm

how are you making the vert top frame?

Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:43 am

I'm using a stock vert frame that I shorten and modify to get the wanted look on it. :D