|
|
|
Italian Job, Herbie, Smokey and the Bandit, Cannonball Run were all favourite as a child. Then Gone In 60 Seconds, Cannonball, American Graffiti and the Blues Brothers. Later on I found Two Lane Blacktop, Hot Rod and the California Kid, and the bad horror films like The Car, Duel and Maximum Overdrive. One I've never got around to watching Is The French Connection.
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Never trust the photos! Hehe! Good news though. I can imagine how demoralising it would be to find the framehead is toast too. Yeah, progress is too slow for some of the kids - they want instant results, full restoration in under an hour, that sort of thing! If the framehead was bad, I think I'd start looking for something else. Framehead swaps are very brave!
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
|
Cracking on! How´s the framehead looking? Strangely good! The very end of each side of the Napoleons hat have a few holes which will be easy enough to repair, but the rest looks fine. I suspect it's spent quite a bit of time with one side of the car on wet grass seeing the state of the drivers side pan half, but it doesn't seem to have spread to the framehead or the bottom plate. Blasting will reveal all though! We've decided to keep the rear crossmembers on the pan too, as they are in pretty good condition for the most part, and it makes lining up the pan halves so much easier! The other bonus is that the heavy duty pan halves we've ordered from www.vwheritage.co.uk come with that part separate (according to the photos!) so we don't need to cut them off to use the originals.
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
|
Ok, half term two, week two. Gearbox out, beam off, floorpan remnants virtually all ground away! We've got a few repairs to the ends of the Napoleons hat and the rear floorpan crossmembers including grinding some old welds away.
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
|
DVLA will want to see that the floorpan is not modified (i.e. it's not a swb buggy) so will ask for photos. Wait until they request them though, and only send the bare minimum they ask for.
How do I know? My wife bought a rotten 1970 Karmann Cabrio for me to take the cabriolet only parts off, and a 1968 Beetle to put them into. DVLA wouldn't accept the change from saloon to convertible on the logbook until they'd seen photos of the finished car! It's not finished so we've got no logbook yet...
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
|
I've got a Hobbyweld bottle at school. IIRC it's £65 deposit then £29 per fill, but I can't remember if that includes VAT. No yearly fee tho.
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
|
Funnily enough, my wife has got an '80 T25 and sold her mk1 Golf cab a couple of years ago! Alfa power is not something I've ever seen in almost 25 years of Volkswagening, in the flesh at least.
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
|
I'm not a fan of the peak or the bonnet, but I'd like to see the van built as a full-on Pro Mod drag car, complete with tube chassis and 600bhp turbo motor!
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
|
Bookmarked! Love a good Beetle resto... might have need of some of the more obscure bits of the spare shell that you won't need too if you're not the opposite end of the country! I've found a couple of scanned pages from the VW factory repair manual with key dimensions when you're ready to do the channels. I've not braced my shell yet - I'm going to twist the shell around and into the right place before I brace it. Then I'll cut out the channels and bulkhead and drop them into place on the ' pan before lifting the body on top.
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
|
A turbo for each bank, one under each front seat?
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
|
|
It was me with the pushrod tubes, but as soon as I’d done it Tom commented... so both about as bad as each other 100% agree. I wouldn't be able to sleep knowing the logos didn't all line up if that was me I always put the seam on standard tubes facing upwards, just something I've always done!
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
|
I've got a spare 100 liters of vermiculite, if you buy the plaster!!!!! Looking good though, despite the 'normal' body 🤓 I think Agent Thor is too much for their minds to cope with! Certainly the wildest thing they'll have ever seen! If I'd have had this one earlier I could have rehomed most of the body cuts from your original shell!
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
|
Are you stripping down the scooby engine? If you are, would like to see comparison photos We will do in time, got a few other things to do first for the coursework but when we get to it I'll certainly get photos. I'm curious about what's inside too!
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
Feb 27, 2019 20:15:17 GMT
|
Likewise, a pleasure to finally meet you too Rob, and thank you for the Subaru engine - it's already grabbed the interest of a couple of the students.
More photos tomorrow - the students hand now chiselled off the remains of the old floorpan halves and are ready to grind the last bits of weld away. Then it's off to the blasters!
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
|
Love it! Been watching it progress over on Rods n Sods - I keep catching myself grinning at the pictures! What wheels are you going for? I can picture a chrome Empi 5-spoke with bullet centres.
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
Feb 24, 2019 23:18:35 GMT
|
Good work John and Tom! You'll need to open the head tins quite a bit - on mine I used some old single port ones because I knew I'd be chopping them up and I'd got loads of them! I ended up with one big hole for the manifold and both spark plugs, which was unexpected...
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
|
That’s true and a very fair point... The biggest deciding factor will be the condition its in once I see it in person, if it turns out to be extremely poor (the photos don’t seem to suggest that, but they can be deceiving) then it will probably end up getting the turbo bits, but if it’s decent I think doing what yourself and others have said could be the way to go. Just means I’ll maybe need to keep the other one to put the turbo set up into haha! That sounds like a plan. Had my mk2 been an absolute minter I’m not sure I’d have chopped it about fitting a 20vt. Agreed. I bought a '66 Beetle to turn into a drag car many years ago. Got it home, cleaned it up, read through the two 2" ring binders of service history and then decided to sell it and start with a less original car!
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
Feb 20, 2019 19:43:04 GMT
|
Yesterday I saw two BMW 850s. Haven't seen one of them for ages then spot two in one day! ...and another one today! Can't even remember the last time I saw a Primera though!
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
Feb 20, 2019 19:03:15 GMT
|
Looks like you could only just squeeze into them then!😁
|
|
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!
|
|
|
|
Feb 19, 2019 22:36:48 GMT
|
|
|
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!
|
|
|