My 1970 Elm Green Squareback (Joann)

[DQDan]

[Ceckert64]

[DQDan]

If it was a 66 I think it would have the white knobs on the window cranks, so it's not. Boy those Z armrests look great! Are you going to put them on your car.. or..... ?? I'd say you just bought $500 in parts for $75!!!!, as a matter of fact, those doors are way more complete and solid than what I have, let me know if you want to sell them!!

[Mike Fisher]

It's a '67 door with the black unlock pull & soft black window winder knob.
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https://imgur.com/user/FisherSquareback/posts
69 FI/AT square Daily Driver
66 sunroof,67,70,71,71,71AT,72,72AT,73 Parts
two 57 oval ragtops sold
'68 Karmann Ghia sold

Society is like stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you end up with a lot of scum on the top! - Russ_Wolfe/Edward Abbey

[Clatter]

'67-only doors, to be exact.

Treasure...

Wish i started with a set like that,

Some '67 nerd out there would be very very happy to get those.
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Bus Motor Build

What’s That Noise?!?

[DQDan]

Aiden, I did not know you needed doors, I have a set of 69 doors I'd be glad to swap for the white ones. Mine are blue. My white 66 doors are pretty much just shells, the tracks and window stuff is mostly out, I'd love to have a complete set!!

[Mike Fisher]

I have a good pair of red '67 doors.
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https://imgur.com/user/FisherSquareback/posts
69 FI/AT square Daily Driver
66 sunroof,67,70,71,71,71AT,72,72AT,73 Parts
two 57 oval ragtops sold
'68 Karmann Ghia sold

Society is like stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you end up with a lot of scum on the top! - Russ_Wolfe/Edward Abbey

[Ceckert64]

Okay, I think the general consensus is I’m stupid not to buy them I have the cash so I will pick them up next week.

This week I may try to find the swamp Squareback and see if I can buy some stuff off of it. It is only 3-4 miles from my house no clue what year but there are also some other VWs in the swamp too, even an oval bug.

DQDan- I don’t need the doors but he reached out to me and wants them gone, I still have yet to buy them.

Thanks for the info Mike!

Clatter- I wish I could find some bug doors like that instead of my accident-weld damage disaster doors Did not realize how special these doors are.

Thank guys!

Aiden
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1964 sunroof Beetle Restoration "Herbie"
“Joann” 1970 Elm Green Squareback
1972 Sierra Yellow Tin Top Westfalia Camper
“Fitz” 1971 Westfalia Poptop

[DQDan]

I'd sure like to buy those white doors either from you or your amazing friend!

[Clatter]

I won't even tell you my struggles to get some nice '67 doors..

It's buried in my build thread.

Ended up having to make my own!
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What’s That Noise?!?

[MarcVoss]

[ach60]

[Ceckert64]

[Ceckert64]

By popular demand I bought the doors today They are OG paint sea sand and the bottoms are rotted out a little. The outer skin is good though. If the doors don’t sell as a whole, I may sell the pieces off of them and use them as wall hangers in my room as the look cool I stopped on the way home with the hood on the roof for a picture. I may also be trading him for some NOS T3 body metal and a NOS 66 or 67 door.

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1964 sunroof Beetle Restoration "Herbie"
“Joann” 1970 Elm Green Squareback
1972 Sierra Yellow Tin Top Westfalia Camper
“Fitz” 1971 Westfalia Poptop

[DQDan]

Dibs and double dibs on the doors, That's the OG color of my 66 SB. If you want some wall art, you have seen my selection of spares, let me know I can bring some blue doors or whatever.. I already told you what I think they are worth!

[Ceckert64]

I’m hoping tomorrow or next week I stop at the place where I think there is a Squareback in a swamp and ask about it. In my head I keep hoping it will be some good 1500 sunroof model Squareback but it will most likely be a rotted out late model one

Today I went to my grandmas and there was a bund of flowers and buds and thought I’d share this picture.

Aiden
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1964 sunroof Beetle Restoration "Herbie"
“Joann” 1970 Elm Green Squareback
1972 Sierra Yellow Tin Top Westfalia Camper
“Fitz” 1971 Westfalia Poptop

[Ceckert64]

Well, I didn’t find T3 when I went looking. I found two T3s ones is a 66 fastback and the other is a 69 Squareback. They are pretty far gone because they’ve been sitting in a swamp, but some good parts. The Squareback is gone, but it might have some good parts and is an automatic. He said it was parked because it had computer issues and didn’t want to pay to replace the computer. The fastback has the Z-arm rest and is pretty rotted too but there may be some good parts. They are for sale and there are also a ton of beetles, all pre 64

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1964 sunroof Beetle Restoration "Herbie"
“Joann” 1970 Elm Green Squareback
1972 Sierra Yellow Tin Top Westfalia Camper
“Fitz” 1971 Westfalia Poptop

[Ceckert64]

Not much to update on, I tried to get out the dents in the front nose, failed. I just popped a ball trying to use that trick to pop out dents.

Today I traded some Legos I had for some NOS metal pieces from the same person I got the doors. The door is 66 down and the other pieces are very random and never go bad. Two are the dipstick panel, one is for Squareback, other fastback or possibly notch. Pretty cool they even have NOS stickers. Let me know if your interested. They are pretty cool, I’ve never had NOS metal before

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1964 sunroof Beetle Restoration "Herbie"
“Joann” 1970 Elm Green Squareback
1972 Sierra Yellow Tin Top Westfalia Camper
“Fitz” 1971 Westfalia Poptop

[Ceckert64]

Well today wasn’t great. I got to work and was standing behind Joann and I noticed the left rear wheel was severely cambered. I think that’s no good, I hope the trailing arm bolt for the rear suspension isn’t coming out. Well, it was completely gone I can’t believe it hadn’t been handling weird or anything. There were no real signs of an issue other than the wheel being very crooked. It’s scary though. I drove very slow home from work but now I have to go to the junkyard to get a bolt. What’s frustrating is that I did everything, torqued the bolt to the proper spec and then I premed it into place. I think once I get the new one in I’m going to tack weld it because it’s scary these things just like to back out so easy. I’ve never heard of this happening before to anyone but this side came out and at some point the right side one had started to back out before I removed the sub frame. Anyone had this happen before?

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1964 sunroof Beetle Restoration "Herbie"
“Joann” 1970 Elm Green Squareback
1972 Sierra Yellow Tin Top Westfalia Camper
“Fitz” 1971 Westfalia Poptop

[Bobnotch]

Some camber is normal. I think I'd go a head and tighten and tack both sides. I don't know why you're having a problem with them though.
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