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PostPosted: Thu Dec 01, 2022 8:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

With the plastic glove box in place and the door installed, the dashboard is complete!


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:16 pm    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

Yes, the hood lock is installed, and replaced, and reinstalled, and adjusted, and readjusted.

Yes, it has finally submitted to functioning after repeatedly locking me out in half-latched aggression against its master.

Yes, I am allowed to feel.


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PostPosted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 3:54 pm    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

Dash looks great all smoothed and metal-clad.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 5:02 pm    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

Thank you Steve! That custom metal dash is my lifetime achievement! Very Happy

It's all down hill from there. Shocked
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 5:09 pm    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

The home made automotive carpet is cut and installed! This feeeeeels great.

For the aluminum threshold trim I used 3M VHB tape because I did not want to drill holes in my sill.

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And just for fun set this here. Cool

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p.s. Victor's speaker panels are foreshadowed, but it's not time yet for the proper outing and thank yous. I want to get the speakers in first.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 6:08 pm    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

More excellent decisions. It's looking fantastic.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 6:46 pm    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

Here Marcel is modeling the swimming pool hoses to defrost hoses hack, which consists of cutting the plastic hoses a bit over length, wrapping Gorrila tape at the bottom to press fit a seal, and then spring fitting them into place.

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For the bonus round, the old Empi short-throw shifter is back at home with a ready-for -anything attitude. Cool


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:13 pm    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

Smug mug Marcel, with his goatee Smile
Yeah, the carpet work looks killer, well done!
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 7:30 am    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

Good lord, man, that carpet looks amazing. Where did you source that roll?
Don't tell me - "Amazon automotive carpet search?" Your cat is just cruel, ghosting your work w/that BFD look. You need a small furry dog to fawn over your every step.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 7:48 am    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

Busstom wrote:
Smug mug Marcel, with his goatee Smile


He is truly a "cool cat"

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Your cat is just cruel, ghosting your work w/that BFD look. You need a small furry dog to fawn over your every step.


Lol, V we've got three dogs so believe me hanging with the cat is a welcome change of pace. Smile

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Where did you source that roll?


My friends, if I have $80 (eighty) dollars into those rolls of carpet and foam it is overestimating the cost. A Menards opened near us and had an insane sale on that carpet. I bet automotive/marine carpet is at the other home improvement stores as well.

Its cut pile, not looped. It cuts clean and easy with carpet shears without any stray yarns.

In all honesty, it looks better in person because the camera exaggerates the lines and wrinkles. I was worried that it would look terrible and now I will never think about using a kit.

Thank you so much for the encouragement guys. Its motivating to share the build.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 6:51 pm    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

Cleaning and organizing doesn't feel like progress, but it is a necessary evil.


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 11:52 pm    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

That's so funny, that cat really likes to be right in the middle of the action, how can you not love it? Man, when I start whippin around the hoses and cords, my dog's runnin for the hills Very Happy He doesn't hang around for any shop action.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 1:10 am    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

Haha, the cat...! Laughing Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 6:14 am    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

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Somebody likes their Cuban coffee!!! Goes great w/those Danish butter cookies. Cool
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:15 am    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

Coffee is a super food V, as you know. The bolder the better. Wink When you travel to the midwest we'll have a cup from the stove-top Bialetti.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 8:54 am    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

The speaker panels are cool. Im lookin. How are those? Fiberglass? Plastic? Precut? And where did ya getum? UlikeEm?



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 12:40 pm    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

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The speaker panels are cool. Im lookin. How are those? Fiberglass? Plastic? Precut? And where did ya getum? UlikeEm?


Hey Fredybear, Victor gave them to me Very Happy And he found them in his basement Laughing

Yes I like them Cool

They are ABS plastic, precut, well-formed to the body of the bug and seem to be readily available from the usual sustpects (like J-bugs, for example, or whoever)

There are also heavier fiberglass ones out there at, again, some of the usual suspects (like J-bugs, for example, or whoever) plus the fiberglass companies for our scene, like maybe Mark V or Glass Action I suspect.

I am going to stick some sound deadening on the back of them before I screw them on to deaden any vibration.

Because this is Samba time, not my time, I must now say:

THANK YOU VICTOR!!!!!!!! Applause So very cool of a brother, and so typical of this whole Volkswagen scene.

I can't wait to mount the speakers and wire the components. If my maker is willing I'll have a post on that whole situation in the near future, I think is a bitchin' set up that is about to get unleashed, proportionate to this little tin can of a car.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 5:43 pm    Post subject: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

Mmmm... mmmmmm... what to do, what to do. The buffet of details.


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Ah! This looks like the mood I'm in today.

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Here we go. Rear sway bar in place for keeping things level while bombing around Nelson's Ledges race course in the Rally Super!


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And for dessert? How bout a couple of those bump stops, they're small and would go down nicely with some poly-snot frosting.


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 3:45 pm    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

Well, it's something. Progress.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 5:17 pm    Post subject: Re: Buggeee's 1972 Super Beetle Reply with quote

That emblem pic looks SWEET!
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