The Cal-look Lounge

Most of you probably seen a pic of my 67 before, but now in the progress of rebuilding it to a real cal-looker.

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With the Torkers fitted....

Lucas' fitted

Front buggy bar is on, in the next few weeks fitting of the rear one...

I made some brackets for mounting the Simca seats I have, they are quite heavily constructed but rather be safe than sorry!
next week pics of seats mounted.

A cool car that just keeps on getting cooler 8)

Thanks Rune!!  ;D

I'm now finished with mounting the seats, I will make some turned aluminium plates to cover the mounts.

Also mounted a double quiet pack again, last year I've fitted a A1 muffler, but I couldn't get used to the looks of it.
I hoped on just bolting it to the car, but this didnt come true... when I mounted it it was rather off centre.  So I cut of the flange and welded
on another bigger one.  Also welded up the holes for the bumper brackets as I won't be using these again.

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those seats look comfy -and the double quiet pack is just right!

sweet dual Q pack!! it looks perfect, great welding touch!

jelle who is the manufacter of this dual Q pack   ;)

Who do you think?? Bugcrap offcourse  :-[

bugpack  ???  i don't know bugcrap ::)

Finally found the time to mount the rear buggy bar...
Everything I want on the car is fitted, can think about changing the colour now...but wich one???

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hi jelle -choice of colour is always pretty hard -i'd use an old vw tone that was available when your car was build or one of porsches -here's a list of porsche paint charts http://www.willhoitautorestoration.com/PaintChart.htm (http://www.willhoitautorestoration.com/PaintChart.htm) and here http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/colors/colorchrt.cfm (http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/colors/colorchrt.cfm) you got most of vws.

Can't go wrong with a Porsche colour...

as long as it's not sepia brown  ::)
will the paintjob be before or after this summer?

but the rear bar looks good too jelle!! nice.

hi jelle  Car looks Good but You need to heat the bumper at the bottom where it goes under the car it needs to be closer to the car at the top like the one in the picture here on Mark Suiters car needs to be tilted up a bit more!!!  LOL And Fill in those Cut Outs  LOL thats an Order!!!

love those 2 cars  8)

Or you could tuck it up a bit higher by making small peashooter like cutouts in the rear apron for the bumper. That would look pretty nifty ;)

Hehe funny stuff, I probably keep the cut outs for the moment...

We Use to mount it just like you have it, then heat it at the bottom and bend it A little closer to the car in the rear  like the pictures show

Shubee, as you can see from the side my merged header and dual quiet pack, come out a little bit at the back.
 Therefore I like the way it's mounted now so it "protects" the exhaust a little.  (http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/000/020/172/20070423/dyn006_original_710_553_jpeg_20172_34b6af36e44c1c4299df4b610b693316.jpg) 

jelle, your back-end is really high it's like there's no engine in there...

p.s. still waiting on that crank?

LOL if anything hits you in the back that Buggy bumper Wont Protect anything it will bend like a Pretzel  its only for looks and it keeps the cops off your butt for no bumpers

That's something on the to do list, lower the back 2 or 3 cms and put a limiter strap on!

and yes still waiting...

i love the look of this car.

Had a silly idea this friday and decided it should have a single colour for Bug-In....
So I removed all the decals, and started sanding the car.
It's sanded now and will be painted next weekend!

Picture shows the 67 without decals, and my friend Sams 63 with trim holes welded

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another surprise for ebi -can't wait!

GO JELLE GO!!!  ;)

Well paint is on... BUT it turned out to be more than a few shades off >:(
So more sanding and painting the next weeks evenings and nights!  :-\

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looking good!

to bad that the color is not exactly the same...  Hope to see the car in EBI!

Grtz,

Dem

Hi Jelle I just Noticed Something on your Car??  You had installed Buggy Bumpers on it I know you filled the Rear Fender Holes Why are the Front Bumper Slots still there??  P.S. Did you prime the car before your painted it?  when you spray a lighter color over a darker color it needs to be primed or sealed first or the darker color will bleed threw

Shubee,

The front slots are still there because a lack of time, will do that later this summer...
About the color, I'm sure it isn't the old color coming through because even on the places where there was gold it is totally different.  Sanding this evening   ;D

Sanded down yesterday evening, spraying today, hope it stops raining for an hour or so this evening.... :o

Spraying last night, the result isn't bad considering everything that went wrong... ;D
I'll try and post some pics this evening on my blog: http://dragvws.skynetblogs.be

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Looks Good You Guys must have stayed up all nght putting it back together  LOL

You guys??   Did it all by myself... ::)
Except for the sanding by hand, this was done by my girlfriend 8)

Tonight, mounting the rubbers between the wings and finishing the rear, and the off to Chimay for the Bug-In!!

I've been there as well Jelle!
Nice job!

I hope i'm gonna make it to Chimay as well  :-\

NICE!!! See you at Bug-In!!

Looking good. Any woman that will color sand a beetle late at night sounds like a keeper to me.  ;D

--louis

The finished article... 8)

Damn, that looks really good.

--louis

need to lower it a little more the back sits really high for a 67 looks great nice change from the two tone paint