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Sun Jul 11, 2004 4:41 am

Hey,

I've had my beetle for about 6 months now, slowly bringing him back to original condition, here are some pics of him when he was bought by the previous owner.

And here is the another pic of about 2 months later

Reg plate stayed with the previous owner....

and here is the most recent pic, have got rid of the tied on number plate - now have a tidy stick on one ( illegal in NZ), while i source a front bumper.

What im planning on doing is making it into the perfect "old school racer"
Gonna graft in a sunroof section before the end of 2004, still huntung for pop-out rear windows, i have the wide rims sitting in my garage, eventually when i get the funds they will have 195/50/15 whitewalls. currently there is no stereo ( I sing to myself) but by the end of this week it will have an awesome 70's 8 Track stereo its gonna rock.

Running a single port 1969 1641cc, hopefully will upgrade that to a 1776cc but i don't know when.

Will keep you posted on how its going, also watch out for photo's of my 1962 that i have just bought.

Sun Jul 11, 2004 1:49 pm

hey there,
your bug looks really sweet, sounds like u have some great plans 8) are you keepin the stock exhaust on it, or is that going to be old school style too? Keep us posted! :D

Sun Jul 11, 2004 2:57 pm

Allready has been changed, but i will have to change it agin soon, the PO welded the new muffler onto the inside of the rear right fender so in order to get my wide tyres i wil have to move it.

Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:31 am

coool!! as you know i like the 1302S :wink:

it looks in pretty good condition too, the inside is very tidy & the paint looks good 8)

yeah all it needs to finish it off is some orginial chrome bumpers on the front & back

keep the pics coming :D

Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:10 am

Nice car! :) Are you going to leave the interior and exterior colors the same? Definitely keep us updated with pics!

Tue Jul 13, 2004 3:20 pm

Macca_nzl wrote: Allready has been changed, but i will have to change it agin soon, the PO welded the new muffler onto the inside of the rear right fender so in order to get my wide tyres i wil have to move it.

Coolios! good luck wiv the pop out r.windows, i wanna fit some of those to my car they're fairly rare though + dead expensive for some decent ones! But they're worth it! :D

Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:34 pm

I am thinking of changing the interior to a black and blue scheme, in one of the bugs i bought today there are some really cool highback seats that i am going to get fixed up and into the 1302s, while i work on making it oldschool im putting the 62 and 67 into storage.

Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:44 pm

Here is a pic of the seats that were in 67 i bought and will soon be in my 1302s once they have been tidied up.

Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:20 pm

Hey Sam,Just saw your seats,theyre not VW ones,look like early Corolla to me ??,dont fit them or you will need certification !!,Dont forget your rubbers !! 8)

Thu Jul 15, 2004 12:12 am

Really,

Bugger thought they were, i am sure they are on vw runners, looks like the hunt it back on.Have the window rubbers arrived?