What Did You Do To Your Air-Cooled Today?

[basti-FSI]

thanks

installed my fire extinguisher today. That's why : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwrXckpv17o



and a hidden lightter/ 12V Socket under the dashboard to load cell-phones, i-pods, navigation systems or just light up a cigarette (though i'm not smokin anymore since one year )



You can also see my new key fob with "LUFTWAFFE" on it. Luftwaffe has the same meaning than airforce in the us. If you translate it word by word it means airweapon. I'm using it because my car is aircooled... got it?

[crestfallen]

It is Clean! Finally!
First time in like 2 months its been washed...

[ItsWop]

Bought mine and ripped it apart haha just picked up a 1970 bus it orig came from oregon so it's mostly surface rust on it but it is very solid picked it up for 350 me and 2 of my friends split it so we can restore it together hopefully it works out it came with 3 buses worth of parts!

[ANSAracingb]

Bought mine and ripped it apart haha just picked up a 1970 bus it orig came from oregon so it's mostly surface rust on it but it is very solid picked it up for 350 me and 2 of my friends split it so we can restore it together hopefully it works out it came with 3 buses worth of parts!

Sweet deal! You can never find buses in this area for that cheap.

Today, I removed the tub from the pan on my dune buggy project. I didn't do anything to the Beetle.

[ItsWop]

Sweet deal! You can never find buses in this area for that cheap.

Today, I removed the tub from the pan on my dune buggy project. I didn't do anything to the Beetle.

Yea it took us about a year to find this bus we looked at a couple but this is by far the best one we saw hence us buying it haha hopefully this week we will get it started up we don't have the key for it so we are going to do a push button start and a kill switch for now

[JDII]

started messing with my coolin system. Oil temp fan switch fell apart when I took it off, so I orderd one. Will put it on when it gets here.

[Schell R32]

..supposed to get my motor bit back from the machine shop by then end of the week...

layed everything out for inspection and cleaning,installed the new Westmorland box and nose cone from MSE,filled the oil and detailed the suspension and such.

cut the car tomorrow and detail the exterior in hopes the motor stuff will be ready...if so i wanna get the motor buttoned up and try and take her out this week end!!!

[JDII]

Black is so purty

[ItsWop]

Got it startd today first time in 20yrs it's been started but the carb needs to be rebuilt but it ran that's half the battle

[basti-FSI]

holy smoke! that makes my lil homie shiver in my pants...
fantastic looking car. 100/100 points*

*I'm able to say that as a german citizen...

[Schell R32]

^^ thanks man!!..german decent too! though born here,pop and grandparents were German and Irish!

can't wait to get the motor together ,hopefully my boy Russ will get the internals buttoned up the fri/sat.

[Fuzz VW]

Is this Heep going to make it to the show this year?

Looks good buddy!

[Schell R32]

..Litchfield for sure!! not driving it on the street before that!!

the last time i did...the trans flange let go,wiped out a fender,oiler cooler,bumper and a bunch of other s--t!!!

hopefully he'll be done with the machine work on the internals tomorrow or sat. then i'm throwing it together and breaking the motor in. after which I have to do a camaro and I'll put the beetle in the trailer and the camaro in the garage and wait til Litch'

[basti-FSI]

thats awesome man anyways... where can i get wheels like that? they look pretty good. acutually i'm not thinking i'm allowed to drive them on german roads, but who cares

[Schell R32]

the ones on mine are "cookie" cutter weld drag lites....in Chevy bolt pattern,nearly on all drag and street muscle cars


you won't be able to put the rears on though, in those sizes i have...as my rear (trans) is raised 5" and the axle assembly is shortened another 5" as well,the axles are a Folt's config with Dana 60 universals and NOT CV stle....allowing a 10.5 rim and a 12" wide tire in the rear UNDER the stock fender size.

here's a better pic of their size:

[ItsWop]

that thing is so ill!

[Apache64d]

Towed my 74 home!

[Apache64d]

Installed a new shifter and drove my 74 for the first time in about 10 years! It was MY first time driving it ever!

[ANSAracingb]

Towed my 74 home!

Bringing it home is always so exciting!

Today I worked a little bit on my buggy project and started up the Beetle for the first time in a couple weeks. Started right up no problem, and the dog jumped in to go for a ride but my girlfriend's car was blocking us from leaving and I didn't have the keys.

[LooseNuts]

the ones on mine are "cookie" cutter weld drag lites....in Chevy bolt pattern,nearly on all drag and street muscle cars


you won't be able to put the rears on though, in those sizes i have...as my rear (trans) is raised 5" and the axle assembly is shortened another 5" as well,the axles are a Folt's config with Dana 60 universals and NOT CV stle....allowing a 10.5 rim and a 12" wide tire in the rear UNDER the stock fender size.

here's a better pic of their size:

this thing looks like a pile of $hit and is slow as fook and bet runs like A$$
















































































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You should drop it off at my house.



JK. but you knew that

[Schell R32]

..sure you want it next week!!

[bugnbus]

Installed the new Wal-Mart $30.00 roof rack.

[Katelynrose269]

I sanded down the bonnet until it was bare metal. That was difficult. Lots of paint on it. Took 8 hours just for the bonnet with two people. And realized if we soak it in acetone is goes by a lot quicker.

[camit34]

Some sweet AC's here!

After 19 years of sitting, I got her to run and even idle semi decent...


The next day I finished putting the new wheel studs in and put on my Mercedes wheels -

[Schell R32]

cool ride dude...just got a 78 and a 79 roll back steel roof the other day...ones an auto and one a stick

[LooseNuts]

..sure you want it next week!!

Eehhh. I might be able to find room behind the hous. Let me know when your on your way I will stew up some road kill.

Damn thing is so sick man.

[6603]

Cleaned out my '64. Going to Vee Dub Parts Unlimited's open house BBQ today and Nick's Burgers GTG for the VW CLASSIC this weekend!

[6603]

BBQ


Meet



Lot of eye candy! Makes me want to go low!

[Schell R32]

i wanna go to the classic soooo bad....maybe next year

[just-jean]

i didn't do anything.....don't currently own one

but i did some cleaning around the house and found some goodies i thought i'd share

paperwork for some long gone friends



48 yr old paint in the garage




shiney brand new pic to whore




and if i still had one, i'd be washing it today like my baby bro did back then





................Jean

[cfvwtuner]

Tried to go to the beach for a small show yesterday. I got an hour into the hour and 5 min ride, and then the car just shut off when getting onto route 1.
The entire electrical system just went dead. No nothing, zip, zilch, nada.
Waited way too long for AAA to tow me to the show (luckily at a great garage, Cardone and Daughters on route 1 in Westbrook, CT)

The connection from the battery/alternator to the car main harness ( the big spafe connectors where the voltage regulator usually is) had come loose. Go figure, after 33 years and a 1 hour trip it decided it was going to come loose!
Tighten with a set of pliers and push back on and taa daa.
Made the hour and 5 min ride home, in the rain, no problems

[Schell R32]

cool Chris she had a early vw problem an not a late beetle prob!!

if that was a late beetle prob your harness would have blazed up and the you would have had on the side of the road s-mores!!!!

see you at Litch!!!

[Shandrew2]

Finally stopped raining so I cleaned up the beetle real nice.

[Shandrew2]

Any suggestions on where to find some wide stock style wheels?

[RafCarre12]

I drove the piss out of it.