1962 Ragtop Sedan Up Fixing

[Dan22]

[Larmo63]

The '67 towel bars are for sale, they aren't perfect.

I'll post them at some point.

These:

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Lawrence
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‘61 Mango Green Single Cab
'62 Pearl White Ragtop sedan
'66 Ruby Red Cabriolet
'86 Porsche 911 Carrera

[Larmo63]

Now that I ran the old crappy gas through the car (of course it almost had a full tank when I bought it and it gets spectacular gas mileage,) I am running premium gas with Marvel Mystery Oil in it.

The car runs so much better! This is a very good running car.

An old Porsche mechanic here in San Clemente recommends MMO in all old air cooled cars.

I run it in all of my Porsches too. It seems to give a little boost. Oh yeah, I bought an old original German ten slat roof rack for the car too.

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Lawrence
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‘61 Mango Green Single Cab
'62 Pearl White Ragtop sedan
'66 Ruby Red Cabriolet
'86 Porsche 911 Carrera

[Big Bill]

Where is that Like button? Beautiful Larmo.

[Larmo63]

Cars and coffee in San Clemente this morning...

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Lawrence
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‘61 Mango Green Single Cab
'62 Pearl White Ragtop sedan
'66 Ruby Red Cabriolet
'86 Porsche 911 Carrera

[pastellgreen]

Such a beautiful car. Please don't stop posting pictures...

[Larmo63]

Thank you. We have parts arriving to do a couple small projects on the car. New sand beige fender channel beading and rebuilding/repainting the headlights.

Seals, lenses, paint, rubber.
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Lawrence
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‘61 Mango Green Single Cab
'62 Pearl White Ragtop sedan
'66 Ruby Red Cabriolet
'86 Porsche 911 Carrera

[Larmo63]

Dashboard shot, I have a nice steering wheel incoming from Germany.

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Lawrence
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‘61 Mango Green Single Cab
'62 Pearl White Ragtop sedan
'66 Ruby Red Cabriolet
'86 Porsche 911 Carrera

[Larmo63]

Seats are nice, recovered with cheaper seat covers.

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Lawrence
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‘61 Mango Green Single Cab
'62 Pearl White Ragtop sedan
'66 Ruby Red Cabriolet
'86 Porsche 911 Carrera

[Larmo63]

That's my Carrera in the background.
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Lawrence
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‘61 Mango Green Single Cab
'62 Pearl White Ragtop sedan
'66 Ruby Red Cabriolet
'86 Porsche 911 Carrera

[Larmo63]

We're continuing to fiddle on my bug, we fixed the horn once and for all, fixed a wonky clutch pedal (Bowden tube was bent/end not connected right) and tightened up the muffler clamps to staunch a nagging exhaust leak.

We also did the new WW sand beige fender beading, which wasn't as straightforward as anticipated. Dealing with what was the factory original stuff was nasty, we had to remove really dirty dusty/crusty beading along with frozen bolts here & there.

Here are the results:

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Lawrence
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‘61 Mango Green Single Cab
'62 Pearl White Ragtop sedan
'66 Ruby Red Cabriolet
'86 Porsche 911 Carrera

[Larmo63]

I found a really nice original steering wheel here on the Samba that arrived today from Germany. I'm really happy with it.

And, it was on the car in five minutes!

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Lawrence
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‘61 Mango Green Single Cab
'62 Pearl White Ragtop sedan
'66 Ruby Red Cabriolet
'86 Porsche 911 Carrera

[iowegian]

[Larmo63]

Marvel Mystery Oil comes with slash marks on the side of the bottle.

Per ten gallon fill up, I use one "notch" worth.

I've been doing it for years.
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Lawrence
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‘61 Mango Green Single Cab
'62 Pearl White Ragtop sedan
'66 Ruby Red Cabriolet
'86 Porsche 911 Carrera

[Larmo63]

Fixing small things on these cars are little mini victories.

I just fixed the door plungers, now the dome light works perfectly.

It feels like an accomplishment, little by little.
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Lawrence
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‘61 Mango Green Single Cab
'62 Pearl White Ragtop sedan
'66 Ruby Red Cabriolet
'86 Porsche 911 Carrera

[Larmo63]

I guess I'm done here.

I'm either boring, or this isn't really a forum.

I think I'm boring.
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Lawrence
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‘61 Mango Green Single Cab
'62 Pearl White Ragtop sedan
'66 Ruby Red Cabriolet
'86 Porsche 911 Carrera

[Rome]

[EverettB]

[Larmo63]

If people here are reading the thread, I'll continue to post the things I'm doing on my goofy little car.

Thanks for the perusing.
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Lawrence
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‘61 Mango Green Single Cab
'62 Pearl White Ragtop sedan
'66 Ruby Red Cabriolet
'86 Porsche 911 Carrera

[60ragtop]

2611 views? looks like some are reading about your 62
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Rick
Certified Mechanic by the State of Michigan in 1977
ASA certified in 1987
Certified Hunter Wheel Alignment Master Technician 1986