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EA812
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 Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2016 8:08 am Post subject: Re: Another 65 saved from becoming parts or crushed |
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Instead of talking about what hasn't held up in the past five years here is a list of what has and from where. Ill add to it if I remember anything else.
Rear deck lid seal, Wolfsburg West
Body to pan seal, Wolfsburg West
Door Window Moldings, German, Wolfsburg West
windshield and rear window seals, Wolfsburg West
headlight wiring conduit, Wolfsburg West
OIL BREATHER RUBBER VALVE from West Coast metric. other brand cooked in a month.
Beetle Vent Wing Rubber, German, ( the one that goes in the frame) Wolfsburg West
Engine tar Board, Wolfsburg West
front signal light seals Wolfsburg West ( but I like the WCM ones I put on my 66 better)
and this is why I'm pissed anything has cracked up, the rear signal light housing seals to body from I don't know where. they came with the car and are probably twenty years old not OG but I would guess J Bugs cause the PO really liked them. |
Forgot, German master Cylinder and German wheel cylinders from WW and three out of four rubber brake hoses. one got attacked by grease with in months. The replacement is from a local place, Bug City. I was able to walk in pick it up and we were out cruising the next day.
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EA812
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 9:10 am Post subject: Re: Another 65 saved from becoming parts or crushed |
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Hoping to take Herbie to this
The CVA's "Last Hurrah" Sunday December 4th
Don't put your VW in winter storage yet, we still have one more event to go! Sunday December 4th, "weather permitting" we will be gathering at the Westbrook Town Beach 401 Seaside Ave. Westbrook Ct. 06498 from noon to 3:pm for our Last Hurrah. Last year was our biggest turn out yet with a few of us participating in the town's Annual Tree Lighting parade afterwards, decorating is encouraged! Are you crazy enough to go to a Volkswagen event in December? For more info contact Bill 860-395-9964 [email protected] or Chris [email protected] or www.westbrookct. us for Tree Lighting details.
some shots from last year
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EA812
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EA812
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| Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 5:01 am Post subject: Re: Another 65 saved from becoming parts or crushed |
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The Connecticut VW Association's 2017 Events
Sunday April 23, 2017 - The CVA’s 27th Annual Spring Dust-off, Mansfield Hollow State Park 195 Bassett Bridge Road, Mansfield, CT from 9am to 3pm. Held rain or shine. This is an informal, non-judged gathering. Dash Plaques to the first 100 cars. Bring a picnic lunch and enjoy a day of cars with your fellow VW comrades! Please, no alcohol, loud music, vending or burnouts!
First official CVA event for Herbie!
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67ctbug
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| Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 10:20 am Post subject: Re: Another 65 saved from becoming parts or crushed |
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I went and saw some great VWs. I saw yours and it looked really good and I saw some others that looked good. I liked the bay windows and if I'm not wrong Stanagon was there in the mango. It was a great show and it was great to see all the VWs!
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...or the PO envied the terrorists' bus in "Back to the Future".  |
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| He's fine, just waiting for the dragon in winklepickers to move out of his lane. |
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EA812
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| Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 1:23 pm Post subject: Re: Another 65 saved from becoming parts or crushed |
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| 67ctbug wrote: |
| I went and saw some great VWs. I saw yours and it looked really good and I saw some others that looked good. I liked the bay windows and if I'm not wrong Stanagon was there in the mango. It was a great show and it was great to see all the VWs! |
Next time I'm gonna wear a red hat or something so we can meet! I really didn't stick around the car a lot. Walked around talking to people; )
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| Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 1:28 pm Post subject: Re: Another 65 saved from becoming parts or crushed |
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Good thinking. I did a lot of walking too, back and forth between busses and bugs. I talked to a guy with a '70 deluxe bus he had a z bed in, he was real nice and told me all about it and a guy with a newer motor in a red bug that was getting close to 500 horsepower. Next event is the swap and meet up at tanger, I'm hoping to get there.
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'69 Plymouth "Adam-12"
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'73 914
'73 Dodge W200
'72 Dodge Wrecker
Go Cubs!
World Series Champions 2016
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| ...or the PO envied the terrorists' bus in "Back to the Future". |
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| He's fine, just waiting for the dragon in winklepickers to move out of his lane. |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 9:21 pm Post subject: Re: Another 65 saved from becoming parts or crushed |
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WOW,
I stared at the stance of this car at Frog Rock 17' all afternoon !
I just saw your 66 build thread as well as I was trying to figure out who owned the white Herbie from Frog Rock after seeing the pics .
Great job on both ! |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 3:45 pm Post subject: Re: Another 65 saved from becoming parts or crushed |
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| 67Vw2387 wrote: |
WOW,
I stared at the stance of this car at Frog Rock 17' all afternoon !
I just saw your 66 build thread as well as I was trying to figure out who owned the white Herbie from Frog Rock after seeing the pics .
Great job on both ! |
I guess I've neglected this thread. I'm just reading this now. Thanks for the compliment.
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This goes down as the longest oil change I've ever done, about 5 weeks. You really need to drain that old oil😂 I added the step stud I purchased at the hardware store a few days ago. Originally I was gonna epoxy it in once I retapped the hole for it but went with JB weld after Stock Steve suggested it on FB plus I really do need some to fix the leak on the heat risers.
Also I've known of these step studs for years thanks to bug me video but all this time thought they were a VW specific piece. I did some research here and found Ace Hardware was the place to get them. It wasn't that bad of a process either. I ended up drilling the stripped part of the engine block by hand with a 1/4" drill bit mounted in the tool that holds the tap for making new threads.
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EA812
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:56 am Post subject: Re: Another 65 saved from becoming parts or crushed |
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My wife and I are big Herbie fans and love VW Bugs so we have been talking about building our own Herbie one day. She was looking at the new Bugs over the summer but we couldn't justify the price for a new one since its our second vehicle. Also the gas mileage wasn't much better than the pick up that I drove at the time. The more we looked into it we wanted an older one more. We especially like the 1960s models.
I have always talked about building some kind of project vehicle especially something older since new cars are so much more of a pain to work on and seem to be made to keep the back yard mechanic away. I spent some time reading VW magazines, a Hanes repair manual and a lot of time researching it on this site. It sounds like a lot of people are having fun doing just what I wanted to do! I recently read someones post at http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=335245 and I was impressed with all the encouragement this person received so I decided to post our little story and some pics. As for any other car made today I would say that they are not worth all this work and just junk them but not a VW.
We originally were planing on doing this in the fall of this year but we found a 1965 near our aria owned buy a guy who got the car from the original owner ( his uncle) in 1981 and we just couldn't turn it down. You can tell this car was his baby once and he took care of it but time caught up to it still. It needs allot of work, like allot of other 1965 VWs but we are in no rush and are looking forward to the challenge. If you care to see the pics they are at
http://s402.photobucket.com/albums/pp106/EA812/
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We picked up this rust bucket, later to become Herbie ten years ago today. Wow, time flies.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2018 9:53 am Post subject: Re: Another 65 saved from becoming parts or crushed |
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Great job on the resurrection & maintaining it all these years!
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