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Fun With VDubs
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 Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2025 4:47 am Post subject: Chronicles of The Green Sleeper |
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This project build can be summed up in three words; Budget, Deadlines, and FAST!
We’ll be taking a “barn find”, intact, ‘67 Beetle and transforming it into a formidable street brawler. On the outside it’ll look just like any other old car that was just dragged out of its final resting place behind the hay baler. Under the decklid however,......let’s let that be a surprise. 
Did I mention that I know very little about working on these old Volkswagens? 
The car has been sitting still for at least twenty years, I’m guessing more like thirty. So the first thing at hand is making it safe to drive and getting the old engine that came in it running. Just because I don’t like junk sitting around that doesn’t at least run.
Because I’m a much better video editor than I am a writer, I’ll be producing short videos of our progress. Those I’ll be posting here as they come out.
We hope you enjoy the build!
The first video release will be Sunday July 13th (2025)
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NJ John
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| Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2025 7:21 am Post subject: Re: Chronicles of The Green Sleeper |
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Looking forward to this!
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1973 standard, yellow, lowered, 3” narrowed front, 1600 blo-thru turbo w/single dell 15.4@86, so far
11.41 et buggy. Long gone
Let’s go O’s! Let’s go O’s!
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Fun With VDubs
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 1:07 pm Post subject: Re: Chronicles of The Green Sleeper |
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The first episode is up and running! We hope you enjoy it.
Link
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Fun With VDubs
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 1:41 pm Post subject: Re: Chronicles of The Green Sleeper |
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Despite the little bit of rust and mounds of mouse nests, this car is surprisingly intact. It seems most all the "one year only" stuff is still here. Even the piece of cardboard that protects the top of the voltage regulator from the seat springs.
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