Itinerant Air-Cooled

I had a 71 super I drove in high school and much of college. I loved that baby. It was my brother's and he gave it to me, then I gave it back then he gave it to his father in law who then SOLD IT!@@@ Bummer. It was red orange and my Dad had a '71 pale yellow one. I'd give my eye teeth for either of them now. I want to get a beetle convert someday as my next project.

IFBwax wrote:I had a 71 super I drove in high school and much of college. I loved that baby. It was my brother's and he gave it to me, then I gave it back then he gave it to his father in law who then SOLD IT!@@@ Bummer. It was red orange and my Dad had a '71 pale yellow one. I'd give my eye teeth for either of them now. I want to get a beetle convert someday as my next project.

Get it now, Wayne.
Of all the people on Earth who I would trust to care for an air-cooled Volkswagen so we can enjoy them into the future, it is you. I would have loved to swing Mike's bug, a sweetheart of an autostick in great condition minus front end hit . . . but I am streeeeeeeeeetched too thin.
Colin

I probably will this summer. I have a friend who has some garage space and $$ and know how so we're going to split it. Just have to find the right one. So keep your eyes open for me everyone!!!

I'm about 32 hours into restoring a '72 Super for a customer right now. She bought it brand new in '72, and has loved it ever since. So I guess that's a positive commentary. I'll post a few pics when I'm done.

DjEep wrote:I'm about 32 hours into restoring a '72 Super for a customer right now. She bought it brand new in '72, and has loved it ever since. So I guess that's a positive commentary. I'll post a few pics when I'm done.

I want a classic stock blue 1969 standard beetle with white interior. Now.
I only have seven cars and none of them are anywhere near me.
Colin

All it takes is money! (and apparently for you, Colin, a warehouse). The tab from the paint/body shop alone was almost $4k, and I did all the disassembly and am in the process of reassembly. Every piece of body rubber and trim has been replaced, save for the OG chrome stripes and VW emblem, new bumpers, new chrome window piping (which is a finger killing PITA!) and rebuilt sunroof (well almost, still kinda fighting that battle).

In any event, all the work and money is worth it, I'm sure, seeing as she's had the dang thing for 40 years. One couldn't get an entirely new car for the money she spent on it in the first place and the money she's spending now, combined, that would last a quarter as long, and now it will probably outlast her.

Go bugs!

Oh, and I'll get right on that, C.

DjEep wrote:new chrome window piping (which is a finger killing PITA!)

When you said "piping" my heart skipped, because the following question is important to me:

"Piping" in an upholstery application is a flexible edge bead. VW used chrome "piping" starting I think in 1973 for window trim. The TBRBobD is a 78 bus with original chrome "piping" that is beginning to brown. If you had a source (a "bead" <pun yuckyuck) for the flexible plastic chrome, it would make my day.
Go ahead . . . make my day, punk.
Colin

Nyuk nyuk, Yes drill seargant! If by "piping", you mean the chrome whatever that goes in the window seals of deluxe buses and some beetles, we got it from WolfsburgWest. Dunno if they have the bus stuff.

A '72 Super Beetle was my first ACVW, and another was my 2nd. I drove one or the other of them as my every day daily driver for five years in the late 80's / early 90's (until the busses got me!).

I still kick myself for selling the easter-egg blue one. That was a nice riding car with a good reliable engine. The difference between standard and super never seemed much to me.

DjEep wrote:Nyuk nyuk, Yes drill seargant! If by "piping", you mean the chrome whatever that goes in the window seals of deluxe buses and some beetles, we got it from WolfsburgWest. Dunno if they have the bus stuff.

You understand, I am not talking about the pre-shaped anodized aluminum trim that you have to hook into the rubber, but rather the plastic rolls! of "chrome trim" that are pressed directly in straight slots in the later rubber.

If I cannot find the "plastic rolls" of chrome trim, I have to replace all the rubber in the BobD with the hooked style rubber and buy all the aluminum trim.
Colin

ahhhhh. I see, said the blind man. Nope, just the shaped-hooked-aluminum. Windows are fun though! A couple hand cramps stretching the seals, a few brews with the guys for their help, then shove, pull, pick, boom! Hopefully boom, not craaaack.