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PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2023 12:35 am    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

I took the 62 to an orientation/regularity rallye yesterday and it did well! Here couple pictures of th car with its "race numbers":
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 9:01 am    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

No, we wanted to make it our own way. At the end, one short order to Himmelservice and everything is like original so no big issues, and for my time with it, I enjoy it as we wanted it !
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 3:22 am    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

you didn't want to go with original fabric and vinyl?
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 2:27 am    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

Thanks a lot Very Happy

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Resurrecting a 60 ghia : https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=713906
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2023 2:49 pm    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

Congratulations, Antoine! Great work!
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2023 11:40 pm    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

So, I did not update here but I am enjoying the car with its new interior since a couple months !!

So back in history, my interior was really not fit anymore and I wanted something special that we would build ourselves. So first.. disassembly:
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And time to blast and repaint the structure (and weld couple broken points..):
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My door panels were also not so good anymore so..
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Then it was time to chose my material:
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And my wife started the hard work :
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While I removed my headliner. I discovered rust under the back window seal so..repaired and repainted:
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And then I changed the headliner :
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Including the new outside cover:
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And the interior was getting ready:
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And... voilą !
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I love so much this material in combination with the turkis:
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Well, so not original but 100% ours, homemade by my wife and I, really love it ! And it makes me happy every time I open the door !

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2023 9:45 am    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

Sunny day enjoying the ragtop 😍
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In the upcoming weeks I will start on the interior..stay tuned !

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Resurrecting a 60 ghia : https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=713906
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:19 am    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

What a beautiful car, and such a nice job getting it to where it is. Congrats! Applause
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:50 am    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

Sunny day:
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Still in love with that car😍

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Resurrecting a 60 ghia : https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=713906
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 3:31 am    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

anything you are doing at this body support, it will have an effect on the door parallelogram and door alignment!
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 01, 2022 1:27 pm    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

Good point and thanks for your attention Very Happy WE also noticed that and can't explain it but I will for sure replace the missing pad !

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Resurrecting a 60 ghia : https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=713906
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 9:30 pm    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

I don't mean this to be a criticism or sound like I'm nit-picking, because your Bug is really nice. But I just noticed that it's missing the body pad under the left shock tower, but on the right side, it's there. This makes me wonder if somebody had the body off at some point, and then either forgot to reinstall the pad, or found that the body was sort of twisted and assymetric, and just installed it that way intentionally.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 12:17 am    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

Not much news..just enjoying it a lot, on sunny days, on rainy days, at daylight, at night..just enjoying: Very Happy
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Resurrecting a 60 ghia : https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=713906
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 12:01 pm    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

alex857 wrote:
to go on with the topic...

my 1961 pearl white ragtop at th Lake of Constance (Swiss side looking to Germany) autumn 2012

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Antoine, both of you have the same location (Stuttgart). You should meet and place both cars to each other to take pictures for us!
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2022 12:40 pm    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

Small details improvement:
The old lenses were starting to get brittle and I was afraid water would enter so:
Old:
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And with the "new" ones:
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Now it looks good
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Resurrecting a 60 ghia : https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=713906
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 11:47 pm    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

And back to dailydriving, this morning to kindergarten:
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Resurrecting a 60 ghia : https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=713906
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 1:18 pm    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

And.. it's back on the road !!
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So happy to be enjoying it again:
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And what a difference it made, should have made it way earlier!!

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Resurrecting a 60 ghia : https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=713906
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 12, 2022 5:07 am    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

Yes, marked+measured the angle before to check it after before mounting everything back😉

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Resurrecting a 60 ghia : https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=713906
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 12, 2022 4:58 am    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

Nice. That is, what I also still have to do. Have you marked the torsion bar setting and reused the same position?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 12, 2022 4:52 am    Post subject: Re: My 62 ragtop - daily driver Reply with quote

No changes yet on wheels color or step sides but the ragtop is currently getting some well needed maintenance..I noticed since a couple months that my spring plate bushings were really at the end (being probably still original) so it was time for a change :
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And they for sure needed replacing : Embarassed
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I could not resist putting the beautiful CNC covers from CSP:
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And mounted:
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And we then noticed some more work :axle leaked oil inside the brakes, the plate holding the brakes was also damages, so time for a renewal:
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And of course the axle boots started leaking so I am waiting on the parts, and we will also change them and change the gearbox oil.
I am very lucky doing it all with a friend (well, he is more doing it with me helping him Embarassed ), good times working together and his eye for details made him improve a lot of things "while there"..the ragtop will be better than ever when back on the road!

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My 914 restoration&lightweight project :
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Resurrecting a 60 ghia : https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=713906
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