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« Reply #30 on: September 12, 2008, 22:56:45 pm » |
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when i was 17 way back in '87 i got a bolt on select-a-drop for my '66....it cost me about £70 when the only dude around who could lower my beetle by cutting and turning the beam was gonna charge about £200......no contest......bolt that sucker on.....for a day or two......it only lowered the car by about 2" and rode like crap.....i kept the car in my garage for a couple of months while i got the cash together to lower the front.....i didn't want to drive it round till it was dropped......i've always been kinda vain.  how exactly did that thing work? I never understood it. Did your beam feel warm from all the tension inside? |
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« Reply #31 on: September 12, 2008, 23:49:21 pm » |
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Mark, you're a sick, sick man, and in need of professional help! I mean, a Wink mirror?!  I have to confess to buying some dayglo pink running boards...  But only so I could shorten them to clear the flip front and removeable wings on my race car! They were immediately painted satin black, and only cost £5 brand new because our local place hadn't sold any for years!  |
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« Reply #32 on: September 13, 2008, 00:09:28 am » |
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hey Jim......you're right that there was a reallly heavy duty anti-roll bar and a very thick gauge T bar kinda thing which bolted on under the framehead...as i recall the cross/top part of the T had two holes in it that corresponded to the two holes in the framehead just either side of the tunnel and bolted thru'.....the vertical line of the T came forward and linked somehow? to the anti-roll bar with a big nut/bolt arrangement......by tightening the nut it clamped up the bar thus pulling up the lower torsion bars.
or something like that?
it was 21 years ago and i was a dumb kid....as opposed to the dumb 38 year old i now am.
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« Reply #33 on: September 13, 2008, 00:21:18 am » |
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The beer or soda can on the coil |
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« Reply #35 on: September 13, 2008, 00:42:50 am » |
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hey Jim......you're right that there was a reallly heavy duty anti-roll bar and a very thick gauge T bar kinda thing which bolted on under the framehead...as i recall the cross/top part of the T had two holes in it that corresponded to the two holes in the framehead just either side of the tunnel and bolted thru'.....the vertical line of the T came forward and linked somehow? to the anti-roll bar with a big nut/bolt arrangement......by tightening the nut it clamped up the bar thus pulling up the lower torsion bars.
or something like that?
it was 21 years ago and i was a dumb kid....as opposed to the dumb 38 year old i now am.
I sold some of them - and yes thats how they worked - or should i say - thats how they installed - |
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danny gabbard
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« Reply #37 on: September 13, 2008, 02:59:34 am » |
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how about all the guys makeing cheese grader's out of there decklids with louvers
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« Reply #38 on: September 13, 2008, 04:06:13 am » |
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how about all the guys makeing cheese grader's out of there decklids with louvers HAHAHA!!! I totally forgot about those, Danny... good call! I remember seeing that crap, everywhere. The decklids, hoods, running boards, etc. I never understood why someone would want to intentionally harm a perfectly innocent Volkswagen body. Mini-trucks... no big loss, but a VW? NO!
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Dave Rosique
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« Reply #39 on: September 13, 2008, 04:27:00 am » |
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I used to see a guy running around So. Cal. years ago in a blue '64 with a louvered W decklid...oddly enough, I kinda liked it. Seems like his name was... Rohn Jayburn or something like that...  |
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« Reply #40 on: September 13, 2008, 04:29:32 am » |
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I used to see a guy running around So. Cal. years ago in a blue '64 with a louvered W decklid...oddly enough, I kinda liked it. Seems like his name was... Rohn Jayburn or something like that...
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danny gabbard
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« Reply #41 on: September 13, 2008, 04:30:41 am » |
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One night at scooters now nicks we were hanging out maybe even drinking in the parking lot and this turqoise bug with about a million louvers on any place they could punch one. backs in and parks. So I walk up { when I was a smart azz } and tell the guy that his car was the largest cheese grader that I had ever seen. Lucky again I did not get my azz kicked. Just thought I'd share that now were talking louvers
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« Reply #42 on: September 13, 2008, 04:35:10 am » |
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HAHAHA!!! Great story, Danny.
How much to weld a section of this into my decklid and front fenders?
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danny gabbard
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« Reply #43 on: September 13, 2008, 04:41:03 am » |
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now thats funny! I dont care who you are. But really I can sneak your 67 in.
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A poor craftsman, Blame's it on poor tools. GAB-FAB shop # 775 246-3069
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Dave Rosique
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« Reply #44 on: September 15, 2008, 01:07:18 am » |
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Fred, I'm thinking that Jayburn guy really needed the louverd decklid to give that mighty type IV some breathing room... or some such thing. Oh well, at least it was an original W lid. ~DR. |
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