Paid for it yesterday and I'm just in the process of being quoted to flatbed it to Pretoria.
So Far:
Ever since I saw pictures of Brians speedster, I was dead impressed, but many factors including the fact that I wanted to build up my own speedster meant that I didn't really consider buying a rolling/ titles/ licenced car as an option. That was until Brian came back to me with a revised price. Yesterday myself and my wife drove through to his place in Jhb and met up with him and his fianc? to eye out for myself what he was selling.
The Speedster is currently running on original 356 chromed wheels which was a big deciding point for me. It makes the car.
Brian was held up for a while and his dad already opened the garage and let me view the car, at that stage I already knew that I wanted it. For those who don't know much about replica speedsters, they are in fact pretty big, even though they are based on a VW beetle shortend pan.
I was in love, Brian and his fianc? pitched up a few minutes later and after a bit more talk, I took it for a drive. Every single person who I drove past, almost fell out of their cars to look at the speedster.
Price was agreed on, price was paid, paperwork is in my hand and all I'm waiting for now is for my funds to clear on his side and a flatbed truck quote to bring it to my house.
Immediate Plans, well first is steering box/ link & king pins and set the brakes down a tad. I want to enjoy this for a while and work on the replacement motor as well.
Long term plans I'm sticking with an aircooled motor and my 2.0 type 4 efi page can be found here. http://www.aircooledvwsa.co.za/forum/vi ... 43&start=0
Interior I want to retrim the entire inside as well as fit the older style interior door levers that come off a 60's beetle to add a bit more vintage to it. Close up the dash holes as well as the radio hole and fit the 3 gauge speedster kit from the states. A bit more dash flair with some porsche details should about do it for me. I also want to entend the dashboard section to resemble the original one. This is going to call for a lot of trim.
Exterior: Total respray, I have a small repair to do on the passenger door handle and this added to the dash mods will make the entire respray worth it. Slightly darker silver is called for though.
What you think?
I'll set up a thread this evening in "projects" with some close ups.
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