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You mention that the tubes are 4130 chrome-moly. In my experience I have only seen chrome-moly TIG welded. Is the MIG just for tacking or are you going to MIG the chassis? [br Doesn't make a jot of difference! I was under the impression that CDS could be MIG welded but Chromoly had to be TIG'd. I tacked the moly cage in one of my old cars with a MIG but then sent it away for finish welding - don't tell me I could have saved £500!
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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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Ford Ka front wings being welded on have annoyed me this week, and sound deadening foams between panels holding water and rotting the metal is today's pet peeve.
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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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Excuse the daft question but if the fug was on the road already then isn't this simply a resto so no need for SVA /BIVA etc. ? Coming along nicely James Yes, but it’s on an age related plate.... so could be a problem in the future..... just thinking of doing stuff now rather than having to do it later You are quite possibly fine. It all depends on a couple of things - basically when it was built and what it's registered as. Assuming it is correctly registered at the moment, there are no grounds for calling it in for BIVA and re-registering it. It's only if it's not correctly registered that you could have problems.
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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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Oct 31, 2017 23:42:51 GMT
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John, they look rather over-engineered! Do a google search for "rollcage harness tabs" and see what comes up in the images. You may find something much simpler and more compact but just as strong...
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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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Oct 30, 2017 17:41:40 GMT
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I'm probably gonna get a ton of hate for this next mod...! ...mainly from the passers by that decapitate themselves walking too close to it! That's chuffin' HUGE!
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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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Oct 16, 2017 18:01:38 GMT
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Unlike Red Victor 2, which used the remains of a 1972 Vauxhall, Red Victor 3 isn't a modified Vauxhall Victor. It's a scratch built car and as such has to meet BIVA specs. It wasn't necessarily built with BIVA in mind, but it was built as a road -legal dragster so a lot of the build did pass. Andy did spend a lot of time reading the manual and changing items to make sure it would pass, but the point is that it isn't a stock or even modified factory chassis. Actually, Red Victor 2 would still need BIVA despite being more factory than RV3 as it doesn't have enough points to be classed as radically altered. It is possible to put a Pro Mod through BIVA!
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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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Oct 15, 2017 20:15:17 GMT
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The best one I ever saw was in a photo in Volksworld, just as the original one had come out. It was bright white, lowered at the front only and running adaptors to put 5x205 pcd 15" BRM wheels on it. A modern interpretation of the original Greg Aronson '63 Cal Looker.
Other than that, my favourite was Rudy Olivenca's tube framed, rear engined, aircooled and turbo'd drag 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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Needs more cowbell! No, hang on, I mean wheel and tyre! Always look like they're running on casters on what, 12" stock wheels?
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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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Interesting that is on a Q disasterbus thought the floorpan structure would by pass that. Or had it lost its identity another way? Looks lovely. SWB buggies should carry a Q plate, needs a large section of chassis removing. There are some legit registered swb out there, some slightly less legit... The Q plate thing from that era is really unusual though. I had a GP LDV many years ago that had been registered on a Q. Strange thing is that the engine and pan were matching 1968 numbers and the pan was unmodified LWB. It was an older build though, so probably the same as disasterbus's Manx in that it was just registered as a kit car. Before Q-plates came out in the early '80's, kit cars were given new registrations, hence linkpin-chassis'd Buggies having 1970's plates.
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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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RTTS was something I never did - always clashed with exam time at school or uni - but I did Bug Jam every year from 1995 to about 2009ish. God to be pretty good mates with Paul Venners during that time although haven't seen him for about three or four years. Commentator at the Gathering sounded like him 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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Oct 11, 2017 17:39:58 GMT
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Very impressive build, and a mad concept! Nice as the black moonstone paint is, I'd be really tempted to stick with the original metallic beige! Went to the Pride of Longbridge show earlier this summer and it was the sleepers that really appealed to 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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Don't know if I've posted this before: cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,26893.0.html It's a link to a thread on the Cal-Look Lounge started by a guy who's bought an ex drag race Fugitive. There's a couple of photos of it on there for inspiration!
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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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Oh, and those front spot lights on moderns that light up one at a time when you go around a corner. Distracting to drive a car with them and worse when you come across one.
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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 night I followed a 17-plate Peugeot without his back lights on. Pulled up alongside and the dash was lit up. Pulled past and the lights on the front were on. This means that this guy was driving around on his "daytime running lights" at night, which I'd guess are the default setting when the car is turned on.
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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 brother went to work in my Beetle one morning and noticed the clutch was slipping badly. Arranged a double dinner, drove home and we hadbtue engine out, changed the clutch, had some lunch and he still had time for a shower before going back for the afternoon.
I had a clutch fail completely in my T25 camper on the way to school one morning. Left it by the side of the road, walked the last 1/2 mile with the schoolkids, and phoned RAC to collect me at the end of the day. I didn't want to be taken home though - I got recovered to Santa Pod, where I was racing that weekend! My dad was bringing the race car over so he chucked a spare clutch in the back of his car and we changed it in the pits between rounds.
Same camper lost 2nd and 3rd gear on the way to a show at Malvern, so I limped it in, walked around the autojumble, bought a replacement gearbox and fitted it in the camping field.
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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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Funny, I was going to post the indicator stalk being on the wrong side on Japanese retro stuff! The youth of today !
I think it was a ford thing - they standardised the escort (MK3 ?) to have the same column in all countries so all RHD cars suffered and the bean counters at Opel et al followed suit .
Youth?! You're too kind, I am a mere 40 years young! Still not entirely sure how I made it this far... All my Beetles from 1960-on have had the stalk on the left (the majority only have the one stalk!) so perhaps it is a European thing. My '51 split Beetle had a twist knob on the dash and my Dad's Frogeye Sprite has a toggle switch. We need further verification from pre-'80's British car drivers as to what they've got!
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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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indicator stalk on the left (wrong) side on every modern car Funny, I was going to post the indicator stalk being on the wrong side on Japanese retro stuff!
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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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Around a decade ago the other family I share my unit with got friendly with a local scrapyard owner - he'd been at school with the dad or something. His son used to drive the recovery truck and one day turned up with a Mk1 Jetta on the back. It hadn't moved in years but under the cobwebs, moss and faded paint it looked saveable. We gave what it would weigh in for, plus a little extra for delivery. We had four of us working on it every night and weekend for about a fortnight and ended up putting it up for sale on here. I got quite a negative reaction, accused of profiteering and despite brushing it off, didn't really use this site for many years afterwards. The car sold. Then it got lowered and cool wheels added and sold again, for lots more. Then again for lots more still! Glad it got saved, it was too good to break, let alone weigh in!
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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 do like this. Saw one at the Hot Rod Drags a couple of weeks ago with an almost Cal Look stance, which looked superb.
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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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