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Here is an updated picture. The interior is done. new carpet, new headliner, new door panes new seats all to original specs. The only thing that has not been done is the dash and window frames. I still need to to rims to match the original spare. I hope you like!
Very nice old Mopar, Vic. Welcome!
Welcome Back!!Quote:
Originally Posted by falconvan
Thanks. I have cruised this site without posting. Just haven't logged in for a while. Working on my 2nd project but wrong site its a VW
Hey, we're hungry for projects!! If you post pictures we'll look! Who knows, we might talk you into a small block V8 in the back seat, chopping the top, dropping it into the weeds, and generally making a nasty toy!!Quote:
Originally Posted by vicmachese
Heck yes Vic, we would be interested in your VW project. Is it a split rear window early bug with the 6 volt battery and candles in the headlights ? Or a bug convertible with a 1800 hotted flat four with a couple of downdraft webers, lumpy cam and big bore extractor system that looks like a neatly tied knot ? Or one that the front torsion bar axle has been replaced with a dropped axle and wishbones ? I think you may realize that some of us would be interested . Did you manage to track down new rubbers for the running boards ?
I did locate the rubber except it was over priced as only a few ppl do it. If I want I can get them later. Instead I blasted them and had then covered with spray able bedliner so those boards will last forever. I did locate rubber covers to put on them and if I wanted it to be correct as stock I can apply those with no problem.
The bug is a 74 standard. Body off resto floors heater channels front and rear aprons replaced. 2.5" drop on the front I have a stroker with dual webers and some other upgrades that needs to be put back together and put in. I am putting smooth top front fenders on with halogen headlights with city lights as the turnsignals. Seats have been replaces with 67 low backs. This pic is old. I still need to paint etc. I hope by the end of summer it will be done. I'm looking for a cool deep purple that looks black from a distance with metal flake. But that's her!
I like and the twin webers on a worked engine with a good exhaust system will give it the punch you need when you want. I like roof chopping them too but that is a major job and one for a good craftsman more so then the back yard body person to get right. When I was an apprentice panelbeater too many years ago I did a heap of work on a beetle that had a Corvair 6 in it with webers etc, the body had been changed into a utility type body using a curved windscreen from a early Vauxhall car for the rear screen. I wish I had photos of that thing now as it was truly a one of the kind and absolutely gorgeous.