Aircooled VW South Africa

My name is Ferdinand

Want to start a build thread of my '63 that I bought today.I bought it as a abandoned project from the PO

Ill let the pics do the talking, let me know what you guys think

@ PO house this morning


@ my shop




















the Bugger Transmission recon box




check out these braces - never seen something like this before?




Rust at battery area


Rust left rear 1/4 panel
























Gear lock that will defenitly be removed










found this cool South African art between the parts


Thanks for looking
Ferdinand

congratulations, well done and the best of luck, now your hooked!

good luck, the pan looks like a fair amount of work.

those braces in the front are mostly used in offroading circles to stiffen the chassis. Works well for the road too.

Thanks guys

Hahaha,I've been hooked on beetles/aircooled vw a long time ago

My '66



My '76 One I did for my GF(stolen a month after finishing)









One I did for my GF after they stole the white one









My '70 914 Porsche (had original 40000km on the clock)











And somewhere along the line I also had a '67 LHD beetle -no pics though



My 914 Porsche

I really like your 914.Do you still own it? Good luck with the '63 project.

Wernher

Thanks , I've sold it about 2 years ago

Was in the shop for a hour or two

this is what I've started with



removed the beam and wire wheeled the front part of the pan





also removed the front beam reinforcements -permanently



Also straightend the "pan rails" a bit





Ill be getting beam adjusters this week and my welder on Saturday so I can start with all the rust repairs

Cheers
Ferdinand

Good luck dude, just recently finished my '62 , few more tweaks to go.... It never ends

thanks man,going keep it stock except for suspension and wheels.

the look I'm going for



Suspension going to fit beam adjusters as soon as volkspares gets their stock



http://www.volkspares.co.za/shop/item/s ... --drop_293

Wheels thinking about either widening the stock wheels a bit

or fuchs classic reps




http://www.volkspares.co.za/shop/item/9 ... -x-130_602

quite like that porker

I'm also waiting on Volkspares for my beam adjusters. The wait is killing me.

Awesome project, good luck!

Cool look u going for, have a set of those rims in a box if unwanted , new and unused .....

went for stock ext and int except for 1 pc windows, and then tree a whole heap of stuff into the motor, basically every thing u can think of into a 1776 cc motor. Had some fun with fine tuning and had to add extra sump, pump and cooler plus filter system .

Once the bug bites it bites hard , this is car number 5 I think

Retro13 wrote:I'm also waiting on Volkspares for my beam adjusters. The wait is killing me.

Awesome project, good luck!

They're only getting stock on the 26th.Phone Flat four racing if I pay tomorrow morning ill have it by Monday from cape town

Retro13 wrote:I'm also waiting on Volkspares for my beam adjusters. The wait is killing me.

Awesome project, good luck!

They're only getting stock on the 26th.Phone Flat four racing if I pay tomorrow morning ill have it by Monday from cape town

I got adjusters R420 for the set R30 if you need them shipped