Archive for November, 2006

1958 Beetle Restoration re-cap

Monday, November 27th, 2006

I had to post some previous pictures of my car before it was painted. I stumbled on these pictures and thought I’d share them. I stripped all the paint of the car and had it taken to German Vintage and Performance down in GA. I think they recently move to Northern Florida.

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This is the Painter of my car. His name is Corey and he is located in North Florida.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=5125

More pictures:

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Please comment if you will….

Broken Type 4 Cyclinder, Good or Not?

Monday, November 13th, 2006

My 96mm type 4 cyclinders were broken during shipping and Fedex crapped out on my insurance. Does anyone know if this is still good or not?

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Selling Oval, Looking for fair price

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Oval Window Beetle 1Hello,

I am thinking about selling my oval on a classified site, but I am not sure what is a fair price to sell it at. I bought this car about 7 years ago, but I have not had time to spend on it. I am thinking about selling it rather than letting it sit in my sister’s garage.  Unfortunately/Fortunately, I live in NYC and my time in Atlanta is limited. I bought the car in Arizona and had it shipped to where it is now. What would be a fair price for this?

The seats are dry rotted. I remove the back. The floor has no holes, there is no major damage in the body beside the rear apron that would need some work. I need opinions on my asking price for this car.

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Volkswagen Type 4 in 1 conversion Exhaust

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Type 4 Conversion ExhaustI can’t figure out why there isn’t any suppliers of Volkswagen Type 4 conversion parts in the USA. This exaust system is designed by Remmel in Europe and widely used there. If you want to order one of these, you’ll have to pay a hefty price on the system and the cough up cash to pay for shipping which is not cheap. With Jake Raby on the East Coast, I thought he would have designed something by now or had some type of relationship with Remmel. Jake, if you can hear me, please help!  Oh well, if any one knows how I can get this, please comment. I want my Sleeper to have a stock looking exhaust system that fits through the standard exhaust cut outs.