Aircooled VW South Africa

Those are the heater pipes.

Allows for the flow of the nice hot engine air to be sent to the front for your interior heating....Just make sure that the piping is good all along the underside. I have to remake "MO"s from rear all the way to the front. Still trying to find the stupid cable that she needs to open the flaps in the exhaust for the hole lot to work

THE Fig used scotchbrite pads and alot of elbow grease to remove some unwanted paint off of his 57 kombi

This is a cool project.

I dont know if I like the paint job or not.

haha paint job is how i bought it!
long term will be a candy blue and white paint job.

mikefenton wrote:haha paint job is how i bought it!
long term will be a candy blue and white paint job.

Hurray, Betty will have an older cousin with the same paint scheme. I'm going for something like this. But with a blue something like this.
Good luck, I can't wait to see what the DC is going to look like when it's finished.

Good stuff! At least Beetlefanatic is going to build a German Look Bay!

Some updated pics.

Some dumb ass cut the chunk out of the passenger door.... wonder why?


Front stripped, gonna try get the bumper off this wkend.


Reason im gonna get the wiring re-done. I mean check the quality insulation.


Rust by the back window.... shall attack that with a wire brush etc once i remove the window.


Roof lining stripped.


Back seat taken out.


See what happens to windscreen rubbers when they arent loved.


Front stripped. all thats left to take out is the dashboard.

decided to start cleaning things up. started with the guage cluster.

Before:


After:






Getting there slowly slowly.
Got a long weekend this weekend so hopefully get some more done... but gotta put a computer together for the fiancée before she cuts off the you know whats

That dash looks great. Is that rev counter standard equipment? Wouldn't mind one of those

@ beetlefanatic i have no idea if the rev counter was standard. it was there when i got the DC so im presuming so. I'm new to the VW family and history...... maybe someone with more info could enlighten us?

Veglia Borletti gauges are normally fitted to Italian cars - FIAT, Alfa, Lancia, Ferrari, Lamborghini although the Mercedes A-Class and Smart also have them. That tach is most probably from an Alfa, but it does not look out of place in a Bus at all

k guys having seen the exterior etc of my dc what would u guys have paid for it? Just curious if i was completly mad or if i got a good deal.

No amount is to much !!!! if you really want it !!!!!!!!!!!!!

R5k?