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Just read the whole thread up to here - always a pleasure! Not laughing at your misfortune, obviously, but you do make even the biggest catastrophe entertaining!
Love the Mary Whitehouse Experience reference too!
Fun fact, you can tell yours is a really early bus by the pressed air vents at the back - later ones had plastic jobbies screwed in with rusty self tappers made of cheese...
Looking forward to seeing how you deal with the cab step - I replaced the one in my wife's '81 T25 with a cut-out from an '86 we broke for spares. Still got most of it in the garage too...
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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That's why I can never get stuff from Heritage in a timely fashion; they're all busy packing up and sending you the entire catalogue You can order again now, I've spent my budget for this year and next! I'm trying to juggle financial years and academic ones... I've spent a bit of time this afternoon with a student trimming the drivers pan half to fit, and I'll do the same with another couple of lads tomorrow. We're aiming to get the floorpan done by the time we break up for summer and we'll start the body in September 2019. By September 2020 I want to be sorting doors, wings and lids, and prepping for paint, with reassemble starting summer 2021!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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I understand they have invested in some new tooling lately for VW panels. That would make sense - these heater channels are really nice! Still blown away by the floopan halves though, they're beautiful! I'm not going to want to carpet them!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Three more boxes from www.vwheritage.com this morning! Basically the bottom six inches and the front three feet! Parts of varying quality but price reflects that, and availability of genuine parts is getting worse every year. We've got front quarter panels from IGP - look ok but will need modifying for the 1200 bumpers, and I seem to have ordered the new without the fuel filler recess! Left hand side has a strange pressing in it (a lump sticking out into the inner arch) that I've never seen before. Front bulkhead is from Sao Jorge in Brazil and again looks fair, although has a weird bracket on the front! Door post bottoms from Auto-Craft look really nice. Heavy, well made and inspire confidence of fit. Heater channels are from Klokkerholm and also look good, better than ones I've fitted in the past. Rear crossmembers also look of a fair quality, but strangely don't have the captive nuts to bolt them to the floor! Maybe Klokkerholm dnt think they're necessary? Rear quarter repairs are the standard bits that Klokkerholm have been making for years and are vaguely Beetle shaped, but I tend to cut them down as much as I can, so ok there, and the bumper mounts are also a bit iffy but again I'll be removing quite a lot, so no worries there. Overall, you get what you pay for, and while I'd love to have an unlimited budget and access to New Old Stock parts, realistically with a bit of knowledge about how these things are constructed it's entirely possible to build a decent car with aftermarket parts. Hopefully we'll be able to do that!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Final word from me on the Klokkerholm panel debate - I've just opened three more boxes of Beetle panels and quite a few of them are Klokkerholm. The strange thing is that the quality varies - the heater channels are MUCH better than ones I've fitted in the past. Nice crisp lines, nutserts instead of the captive nuts held in with a hope and a prayer - maybe they're realising that the market isn't interested in the lowest cost part that take three times the labour price to sort?
Sorry jb, back to you!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Looks like an old Klokkerholm piece, when they looked after the tooling and made decent quality parts! Nothing like the utter cack they churn out nowadays then Having compared old and newer parts, it looks like the press tools haven't been looked after. The definition and accuracy just isn't there, but in a lot of cases, especially for early Beetles, there are alternatives. Type 25s are quite a small market, so I wouldn't have expected to much of a problem - having said that I used a cut-out door step from another bus and the sill repair for the sliding door side was one of VW Heritages own panels. What we need is someone with the skills and an obsessive level of detail, and his own machine tools, to buy a rusty old camper and decide to make all the repair panels he's not happy with...
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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They're slightly long, but as I tell the students, you can always cut more off but you can't cut it back on again. None of the puckering that blights cheap pan halves! The box with the extras - very pleased they were separate!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Update! Back to school today and I find a pair of pan halves waiting for me! We decided to go for the more expensive ones (111-701-061MRG and 111-701-062MRG, if anyone's interested!) and they're so much better than ones I've used in the past. The seat rails for '71-'72 only are in place, but the jacking points and rear braces aren't, which suits me - jacking points are a rust trap and our rear braces are largely good and in factory position, so easier to line up! I'm happy. Big thanks to www.vwheritage.com!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Yep, exactly like that!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Better late than never, here's the photo of my traction bar. Hopefully you can see where the bar rests against the bottom of the case, and the exhaust comes over the top of it and drops down to clear the valence.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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I've used a VW Heritage loom before, on a 1970 1500. Everything worked first time ex let for the interior light, which I call a win! £250-ish well spent.
Edit due to being distracted by excited 3 year old - a friend is looking at wiring loom options at the moment for his '71, so I'll pass on the Autosparks link. Thanks @grumpynorthener!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Looks like an old Klokkerholm piece, when they looked after the tooling and made decent quality parts!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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May 30, 2019 23:56:22 GMT
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Just like a traction bar! That one on Inch Pincher Too is a bit strange as it bolts to the case. Usually they are a bit further forwards and sit under the back of the stock sump. They shouldn't touch the heads at all and should also clear a merged header. While I think about it, the merged header will usually pull 1 and 3 pipes in close to the pushrod tubes, which means cutting the sled tins about a bit. I'll try to get a photo tomorrow when I'm home.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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May 30, 2019 23:48:53 GMT
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Thanks guys, but really this is not some high dollar 'named' builder car! It's just some crazy Roth nut in a small one car garage, with limited funds and big ideas! Doesn't stop it being awesome though!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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May 30, 2019 23:47:39 GMT
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Colin, this is up there with the restoration of the Aronson/Holmes '63 as my most anticipated build of 2019. It just looks ace! Wait, what?! Got a link? cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,3644.0.html It's another one of Russell Ritchies projects, due to debut at EBI. Kids at school can't work it out - it's just a white beetle to them!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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May 30, 2019 16:13:09 GMT
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Colin, this is up there with the restoration of the Aronson/Holmes '63 as my most anticipated build of 2019. It just looks ace!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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May 30, 2019 16:08:38 GMT
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Looking good John and Tom! Worth trying to get a brace on the cradle under the back of the case just behind the deep sump. Square box is ideal, and a rubber pad to damp vibrations. It'll stop the engine trying to rip the front gearbox mount off!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Thanks GN, those are very useful links, and thank you for your offer of help with the Kent products. I'm leaning towards the Bilt Hamber products so that we can just get some paint on the thing! I like that it's a weld through and etch, rather than having two different paints to use and worry about overspray of one over the other! That's the sort of thing that would really bother me!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Thanks Rob, I'll check it out. We can spray aerosols and anything that only requires a canister filter mask, not air-fed.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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