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Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:52 am

Anyone own this car now?

Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:05 am

Nice car. But check out that tie! Man you could use all that fabric to make a cutom headliner for that Heb! It's "Uge"!

Fri Jun 26, 2015 11:51 am

That heb is one of the 2 hebs that Pete Banholzer owned. He sold them both and out of these 2 a nice one was restored... Heb 350 that Bill Collins sold some years ago to a european man in Liechtenstein. It was not white but pale yellow. Pete is still alive and want to own a heb one day...he is in the 80's... That is hard core in heb world. ;-)

Greetings.

Fri Jun 26, 2015 3:00 pm

EverettB wrote: Anyone own this car now?

Is the Heb rocking one of those funky bug deflectors-

Fri Jun 26, 2015 11:06 pm

I remember when Walter Russo owned this car in the 1980s. All he did to it was swap out the 1962 taillights for 1950-52 units w/blue dots pressed into the lenses. Otherwise, it was unchanged. Bill Collins swapped out the 1961(?) chassis for a period-correct chassis when he restored it in the early 1990s. This was the red and ivory car that went overseas.

Sat Jun 27, 2015 7:28 am

RareAir wrote: EverettB wrote: Anyone own this car now?

Is the Heb rocking one of those funky bug deflectors-
good eye! I think it is

Sat Jun 27, 2015 11:43 am

I already had my first Beetle at the time of this event, a '60 sunroof sedan. My father worked at VWoA at the time, but neither of us were passionate for the "vintage" VW scene... I might've already been off to college on the weekend this event took place. His office was in the background building's left wing, top floor, but on the other side overlooking the woods.

Sat Jun 27, 2015 9:12 pm

These are very similar. I would be surprised if they're not the same car..

Although Heb 76 *did* surprise me in the past.

http://karmann1952.de/html/unbekannte_hebmuller_6.html

Sun Jun 28, 2015 7:29 am

Same car. Top picture taken mid-1980s, when Walt Russo owned it.

Sun Jun 28, 2015 1:30 pm

Good to know.

Do you know which and when show it is? The tag in the top photo is 1982 to 1987; I believe.

what years did Mr. Russo own the car?

Mike

Sun Jun 28, 2015 3:04 pm

The inspection sticker is a square, green April 1983-March 1984 issue, expiring (probably) in December 1984 (since MA antique plates expired in December). I don't recognize the show, but it appears to be one of the larger all-makes shows.

Bill Collins acquired the car from Russo sometime in the late 1980s and spent several years acquiring parts to restore it correctly. I think he debuted the finished product at the 1996(?) Terryville Bug-A-Fair. This is the same car he drove cross-country the following year.

Tue Jun 30, 2015 7:38 pm

I remember seeing that car at then VVWCA meet, when Terry Shuler was prez of the VVWCA. I think it was light yellow. A price tag of $7K is stuck in my head.

I had 2 splits then... a fifty standard and a '50 11G.

If I remember, that Heb was on a 1967 pan... Walt Russo lived in Mass and had some nice early cars... went to visit him, from NJ in 1980...

Wed Jul 01, 2015 4:32 am

Do not know where this is now but wondered if it was the same car..hamburg1964.

Wed Jul 01, 2015 7:49 am

Wow, what luck to get a Heb in that shot!

Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:41 am

GTV wrote: Wow, what luck to get a Heb in that shot!
Maybe it belonged to the picture taker...

Back window is very different and it looks more white or light blue than yellow.

Wed Jul 01, 2015 6:12 pm

http://public.fotki.com/Herbie3Rivers/car-specific...ller-ex-b/

Thu Jul 02, 2015 3:26 am

The Id plate is on the right spot... the aufbau plate however should be mounted on the toolchest laying down. Where the aufbauplate is now, there should be the body nr 14-00350.... But why it is covered?

Thu Jul 02, 2015 9:19 am

whitewalls wrote: http://public.fotki.com/Herbie3Rivers/car-specific...ller-ex-b/

Does it have a Denzel engine?

Thu Jul 02, 2015 9:27 am

Looks like early 356 from here 8)

Thu Jul 02, 2015 10:04 am

:oops: Ok, ignore that, I was mistaken about where the spark plug wires are plugged in.