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Feb 18, 2019 21:08:20 GMT
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Another bonus is that when you sell a house you have to inform the buyer of any letters you have sent to your local council regarding the property. Who would want to move into a house next to a grumpy northerner who makes noise, smells, parks cars everywhere and is generally antisocial. If they do wish to move away they may have shot them selves in the foot. Which is always nice to know. Then again who would want to live in a 5 bed detached period house with 50 metre rear garden, parking for a good handful at the front, double length garage in a really nice semi rural village with all services in the next small town 1 mile away - Just has a bonus the bloke next door down has a little classic car restoration business - he happens to be the most helpful chap in the village too - well into his motors and has a 85 bottle gin collection that he breaks open every weekend - It would be a nightmare living next to him Yeah, I'll offer them £40k, just to take it off their hands...
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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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Feb 18, 2019 20:58:51 GMT
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Ooh. I'm a bit jealous. After having to sell my '51, me and small window cars have some unfinished business... One day I'll get an oval! Dechromed, red paint, Centerlines and a hot IDA stroker motor will do me just fine.
Edit - some nice bits on yours still. 4-tab bonnet, 4-finger front valance, original heater channels? Pretty sure I've got an oval ashtray somewhere and I know Richie Webb has got glove box lids.
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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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Feb 18, 2019 10:52:06 GMT
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This may sound like a silly question, but can't you just make some new housings? Compared to some of the things you've made they look fairly simple, or is it the coating that is the problem? They have a steel liner cast into the aluminium housing. This is then hard chromed and ground. They are not economically viable to make in small quantities Ah, more complex than they look in photos then. That's a bummer.
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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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Feb 18, 2019 10:48:30 GMT
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A lot of the VW air-cooled repair panels don't fit as well as they used to. I was told that the dies had been spec'd for a certain number of pieces and had then worn out as they'd kept on being used. Unlikely to be the same problem for the EsCos or Corvair though! You need to buy Klassic Fab panels then. By far the best on the market for those cars. Yep, Gerson has spent a lot of time and money on the funky green panels, especially for early cars. Autocraft from the UK, Wolfparts from Sweden and Virtanen from Finland are also excellent. I heard that Virtanen cut apart his own original unwelded oval beetle to measure the rear crossmembers accurately!
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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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A lot of the VW air-cooled repair panels don't fit as well as they used to. I was told that the dies had been spec'd for a certain number of pieces and had then worn out as they'd kept on being used. Unlikely to be the same problem for the EsCos or Corvair 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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This may sound like a silly question, but can't you just make some new housings? Compared to some of the things you've made they look fairly simple, or is it the coating that is the problem?
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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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Last ratchet I changed at Halfords was replaced no problem as the design had changed completely. Never had a problem with swapping any of their stuff, and have recommended it to all my students.
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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 not a bad repair at all. Battery trays are always awkward - sometimes the back corner under the jacking point rotsout without you even seeing it.
I wouldn't use the oval window section on this car - the side window profiles are all different and it'll look like a wrong'un. I'm not usually a huge fan of patina cars but this one has earned its look!
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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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My dad is a petrolhead. I remember back in the very early 80s (I was born in '77) when he was restoring his Frogeye that mum would take us to church on a Sunday morning and he'd get to stay at home and work on the car. That double annoyed me! He let me look at his early Custom Car mags (before I'd even worked out what norks were!), he used to take me out of school for the day to go to Wales for the RAC rally, he got me into racing r/c cars, he encouraged me to get something retro for my first car, showed me how to restore it. He even crewed for my drag car and "sponsored" me when I was short of cash.
Now my lad is three he's the same as I was. I was very conscious about not pushing him into having cars as his main interest, but he loves them anyway! His favourite films are the Disney Cars series, and he's always playing with the diecast toys. He's been going to car shows since he was tiny and if he sees black number plates it's automatically a "cool car!" When he saw my Beetle on the drag strip on YouTube he looked and declared "it's a daddy car!" then "it's MY daddy car!"
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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 misread that a wedding fumes are carcinogenic...
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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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Yesterday I saw two BMW 850s. Haven't seen one of them for ages then spot two in 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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That squareback has been around for a couple of years as a running driving car but not quite finished. That's the first time I've seen it in paint, and it looks stunning. Tha k you for your photos!
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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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Feb 16, 2019 15:13:08 GMT
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Sounds very promising!
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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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Feb 13, 2019 21:58:55 GMT
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Just wait til they see the Subaru WRX motor! Ooooh! Wonder if a Subaru and 4WD would fit a Jowett. That would be a wolf in sheep's clothing Anything will fit if you have a large enough hammer... I'd never seen a Javelin in the flesh until about 10 years ago at a local school fete. They're a very pretty car, and I really hadn't expected to see a flat four in the front - I knew literally nothing about 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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Feb 13, 2019 20:57:28 GMT
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That Indian vee belt is not getting past the concours committee Just wait til they see the Subaru WRX motor!
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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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Feb 13, 2019 20:47:07 GMT
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What a difference the black wheels make. Love it!
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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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To be honest, I think this is a first world problem... I think it's a first weld problem. You don't want rid of the car, so keep it. Then either get a replacement shell and build one awesome one out of the two, or buy a welder and learn how to weld. If you balls it up, cut it out and do it again. My dad had a '73 VW Squareback that someone had learned to weld on - they started at the front and worked backwards, and by the time they got to the back they were so much better that they redid the front again. He had that 20 years ago and its still going now!
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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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Feb 10, 2019 16:54:08 GMT
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I'm intrigued! Could be a cool phantom build, get it looking stock but not anything Ford actually built.
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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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Feb 10, 2019 15:11:44 GMT
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Thank you very much! It isn't essential to have a workshop as well equipped as mine, but it certainly helps! If it was just me it would be so much quicker, but teaching the kids what to do does get in the way somewhat... Motivation for me comes from certain students who really want to crack on with the rebuild, and my head and deputy are also keen for it to keep progressing; it is the school that's paying for it after all! On a random aside, I think I know your car! Are you over Stourport way, painted it in red oxide about 3 years ago? Hi no i am over in Solihull the current pink beetle is the resto.. iv had the car for around 6 years but also have another that I owned for over 30 years. Your car has (or at least had!) a twin then! I wondered it it was yours in Stourport when I saw your avatar a while ago, but kept forgetting to ask!
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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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