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Rob, that's great! We're starting to run low on broken tables, as this year's cohort prefer kicking doors... Went into school yesterday (helping the head with his Beetle, the orange and black one from earlier photos) but did manage to get a couple of photos of the trolleys we made for the floorpan. Simple but effective! Back in a sec, got to clear some memory on my phone... [/img] [/img] Hmmm. Photos not uploading. Strange...
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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 walked away from deals where the V5 isn't present. I got to one sellers house, with mates and their pickup and trailer, having been the successful bidder on ebay, and was just given a handwritten receipt, sold as seen. When it turned out that the seller didn't have the V5 we unloaded the car again and pushed it back on his drive - it just didn't feel right. Told him that if he could order a replacement V5 that we'd be back and I'd even pay the £20 extra for it - funnily enough he never called me back...
Sometimes you just have to listen to those subconscious alarm bells.
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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 recently retired step father-in-law always had saloon cars as his company cars. He was a photocopier engineer who travelled all over the country, and the company policy was that although an estate (or even a hatch) would have been much more useful, especially when used as a family car, he always had the excuse of not being able to take away a faulty machine. He'd always do his best to fix it, but there was no way that he was going to try to single handedly lug a commercial photocopier into his car and also keep it in his car overnight!
He was also not given a choice on make or model, which is incredibly frustrating when you're stuck with it for three years. Stick to your guns Grizz, if you are allowed a choice, use 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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Feb 17, 2020 20:10:47 GMT
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Most of these are great examples of "just because you can, doesn't mean you should"!
One person who doesn't follow that is MasterMilo82 on YouTube - he's done pushme-pullyou Clios, a couple of RollGolfs, and the Wipkar, all worth checking out...
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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 been with Brentacre for the last couple of years, and when my Beetle goes back on the road I'll more than likely use them again. Car is a '68 Beetle, dechromed, Porsche seats, lowered front suspension, alloy wheels and a 2 litre motor with 4 times the power the factory original one had, and I paid £130 last year. I'm a teacher in my early 40s though. Brentacre were recommended by a friend - when he put a roll cage in his 200bhp oval window Beetle part way through his policy they didn't even charge him an admin fee for adding it. Modifications aren't an issue, and nor are changes. Only thing I don't like is that you have to pay in one go rather than monthly, but that's not a massive problem as the premium is relatively low.
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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 15, 2020 23:57:47 GMT
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Matt Atwood runs a Rover powered Fastback known as Blacklisted in the VWDRC. Goes pretty well, although he's using a camper gearbox for strength. He's now onto a 4-litre 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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My Dad and I have tried five different Lidls trying to get one of these with no luck at all. Apparently people were queueing for the 8am opening, and all gone by 9.30am! Unlike Aldi, you can't order online either.
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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 rebuild Dez. I've got a similar type of saw in my classroom at school but the blade has been broken by a ham-fisted child before I started work there. I really must get on with ordering a new 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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Feb 14, 2020 20:35:11 GMT
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Ooh, first post of the half term on the day we break up for a week...
So what have we been up to? On the face of it, not a lot. Really though, still not much... We have had quite a few modern-ish things come through the workshop, like a Dacia needing oil and filters, a B7 Passat with no back brake pads at all, a mk5 Fiesta with a broken front spring (and the top mount was so rusty that it needed a new shock and top mount as well as the spring!), a Peugeot 106 needing a crank trigger, and so on.
What we have done on the Beetle is worth doing but most of it doesn't show up too well in photos. We've got rid of the pallet chassis jig and now we've got the floorpan on a couple of dollies, using shopping trolley wheels. The front one is bits of angle iron and bolts to the beam mounts, with a couple of bits of box section (table leg!) as braces. At the back we've got a gearbox mount welded to a piece of an old trampoline frame! It works though... What it did show was that the heater channel wasn't quite in the right place, so a bit more trimming and grinding was done before it was all tek screwed back together. The door fits the sill better so I was happy taking that off and putting it back on, which we can now do with the body on the floorpan on the dollies - the posts of the 2-post lift meant that we couldn't open the doors of the car enough to get to the hinge bolts...
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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, 2020 22:38:00 GMT
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I've got a Keilder cordless brushless drill at school and I do like it. Batteries seem to last well (it came with two) and I stick a modified 3/8" extension bar in and use it as a socket driver too. Torque settings from 1-16, even though I've no clue what the units are, plus drill and hammer drill functions. Nice bit of kit.
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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 think I only ever bought two issues of Max Power, the first and the last. I remember that the first had a purple Dimma 205 on the cover, which I thought was awesome at the time. Have to admit to being not so keen on them now! I used to buy them when I was 17, have to admit. Mind you there wasn’t any internet to be looking at and you’re waiting a month to see a new load of mags in the shops. Strange to think back what things were like. We get access to so much instantly these days. There was actually a Ferrari F40 in one of the early mags. It all went a bit stupid very quickly though. That last line summed it up! Revs magazine seemed to start well but went the same way. Back onto body kits, I liked the Kat ones for Capris and SD1s.
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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 think I only ever bought two issues of Max Power, the first and the last. I remember that the first had a purple Dimma 205 on the cover, which I thought was awesome at the time. Have to admit to being not so keen on them 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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Jan 24, 2020 20:18:42 GMT
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Ive just read this thread from the start while having a conversation with my 4-year old about his Lego, and totally misread one of the posts on page 1. I kept on seeing the word "wagon" and was quite convinced that you are building a P6 estate. I now know you're not, but I really think you should...
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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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Jan 20, 2020 20:47:08 GMT
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Ain’t been taxed since 2005 & no mot details, so pretty good chance it’s toast I did the same search - if it survived til 2005,chances are it's still in a garage somewhere, possibly an unfinished restoration. There doesn't seem to be anywhere near the number of Beetles being broken now as pre-2000. generally01 - I'm pretty sure the Ian Clark who owned that '70 is the same Ian Clark behind Wolfsburg Performance Services. One of Tim Snellers friends was Keith Seume, and the pair of them are encyclopaedic when it comes to old cars. Worth shooting either of the an email?
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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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Jan 19, 2020 19:32:04 GMT
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If you only had a hoody and t-shirt on, I'm glad those photos are from the waist up...
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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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Jan 17, 2020 18:38:12 GMT
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Just read the advice from the GS forum. Seems sound, and I'm doing the photography teacher's Fiesta at the moment - that strut is so rusty it's getting a new shock and top mount...
Oh, and happy birthday Rian!
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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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Sad to hear. Though I expect that being JB you will use unicorn spit and cosmic dust to make a new storage unit on the verdant shores of Gallifrey. Not far from the truth 🤣🤣 I have found something but it’s going to need a lot of work ....and a bit of lateral thinking/ structural steel work.... I thought you might have found a lump of scrap in the skip big enough to machine an entire storage unit out of, but then had to make a new CNC machine out of an old microwave, some clothes pegs and another lump of scrap out of the skip...
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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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Liked for empathy, not because your bus is rusty! Looking forward to seeing it shiny again Likewise! I've always found the 14s to be a bit floaty. I didn't do anything with my bay before I wrote it off, but I did put 15" Audi Ronals on my T25, and it was a nicer drive. I've mentioned to Em about going for 15" steelies off a T4 for her T25. She said she doesn't care as long as she can put her hubcaps 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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I hope someone like neildavies knows something about it. He's a V-dub guy I am, but more of an aircooled guy. I do like this though, the proportions really work. As said before, it looks like a Golf hatch on a Jetta body.
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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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It was certainly in by '76, and maybe as early as 1974. My 1970 Dormobile had a CU-code 2 litre from an early T25, and that went pretty well. Used to tow my drag bug and trailer about without a problem! After I wrote that off, I kept the engine and bought a T25 with a 2 litre already fitted. That also went reasonably well, although it was heavier. Did swap the other engine into it at some point, just in case it was a better engine, but it was pretty much the same. We've now got another T25, a Devon Moonraker that's been fitted with a fixed high top. It was originally a 1600 but now has another CU-code 2 litre in it. It's slower than ever, but that might be due to the 1600 gearbox not matching the power band of the engine. I've got a 2 litre gearbox to rebuild, but if that doesn't sort it, I've got most of the bits for a 2276 type 1 motor, which I reckon would work with type 3 tin. I'd like to go electric, but the wife won't have 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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