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Well its been a VERY long in coming but now I can finally begin "PROJECT 66" 

The car is on its way to me as I write this so I will post some pic's once shes in my garage.

But to start with here are the AWSOME gauges I will be using - Thanks once again Gary  :)

Looks sweet. You going to paint it the same as the buggy?

--louis

nope probably gonna be this colour  :)

one more part I collected  :)

Okay so you decided on the Porsche green. It should look killer when it is done. I saw four vert decklids this past weekend at the Bug Jam for $350. Oh well.

--louis

this is gonna be one tasteful 70ies looker!
yeah, i bet that when it's done it could have been somewhere keith's bible!!

i trust you will keep me up to date on the progress  ;)

nice one buddy!

Yep this is gonna be a TRUE 70's Cal Look Bug  ;) :) you know the score dude  ;) :)

I have just finished tucking her up in the Garage - I will post some pic's tomorrow when i get in from work as I have to be up at 6am ::)

I just want to say a BIG THANKYOU to Russell for helping me out with this Bug - I owe you more than a few beers dude  ;) :)

LOL Lee Russell Owes Me A Steak LOL Got Him A Texas Title When he was here for one of his Cars LMAO Russell can take us Both Out  Steak And Beer Sounds Good To Me ;D ;D

Green Wheel's have got to go LEE LOL

no i beg to differ, but give them a darker shade of green, something subtle. and if possible one piece windows. you picked the green i want to use if i ever have a bug, or something very similar. this looks sweet allready in my mind as well

I beg to difer too dude - I didn't notice it at first when speedwell/fabian posted it but now I have noticed it I think it is COOL  ;D

You are right though it would need to be a very drak shade of green to look right  :)

I am just off out to the garage to have a little play with her  ;) I have still not checked it out fully yet  ::) :)

Catch ya soon guys  :)

You going to do green window tint too?

--louis

Got it home at last then!
Keep us all posted & remember that car came from god`s country so you get a head start ;D

HMMMMM not a bad idea dude but I am only "thinking" about doing the wheels - still not totally convinced  ;) :)

Dude

Kev'd dod the welding on the quarters...... any problems see him !

And re the beers and Steak..... Americans only eat fatty steak and you english only dring half pints..... sound like a fun night !

Good Luck and all the best, give it some love.....

LOL Russel But I Am Canadian  LMAO  We Like the Good Steaks So  Start Cookin ;D ;D ;D

Hey Dude, great minds think alike.....

I've seen your buggy on many pics and it looks great, so the 66 will be something awesome too.  I'm gonna follow this tread.
good luck with it.

Dem

Whilst I agree with the "great minds" part I have been toying with the idea of Porsche Guards Red :o :)

sweet baby jesus, i love this first photo!
but the colour didn't look too good on some of the other photos i found of it...

(http://www.912registry.org/images/69/bsmith.jpg)

(http://www.912registry.org/images/69/bayless.jpg)

(http://www.parcars.com/18973.jpg)

You know it makes sense... ;)

yeah yeah yeah - I still LOVE willow green though  ;) :)#

Also I am just off out to the Garage to have a PROPER look at the 66 as this will be the first time I have seen it in day light what with having to work during the days and all  ::)

I will report back soon  ;) :)

Ral code 8011  ;)

Magne

TRUST ME WHEN IS SAY THIS....

NOT RED.

Dare to be different.

Have you 2 got a bet going or something  :D :D :D

If you paint it Willow Green, you'll just look like Russell's gimp.  ;D

Guards red! Go on...

(http://muchos.co.uk/members/neil hab2/Headstraight - bigbang03.jpg)

I would think to be different you need to paint it RED, no one does that any more...
Decromed 66 with red paint and supercool wheels/rubber... you can't go wrong!

OK Ok Ok..... if you paint it red its going too be another 80's cal looker.... and more importantly people will conpare this to my lee leighton replica......

I think red is better on an upright headlight model.

Can't believe we're on page 3 and not actuall seen the car in question ;D

Hmmm,

Did I miss something??? What Replica ???

Frank

OK guys here you go  :)

No frank its a secret !!!

A replica of Lee himself?  That should be pretty interesting when done.

here's a pretty good one  ;) :)

hope your going to change those repro wings  :o

whats the red interior like?  ;)

Really?  :D

Half pints you say?


Oh, I've got it,  you mean the half pints we drink two at a time in one big glass?

And is it not true that we English (I say English although I myself had a Scottish grandfather.) are still drinking them long after you slope off to bed nursing your headache... ;D

Can you imagine Mel Gibson - sorry,  William Wallace sliding off to nurse his Buckfast induced headache instead of fighting at Falkirk?

Well see you at Sandown or anywhere else!  ;D

Hmmmm I've ben toying with the idea of YELLOW for PROJECT 66 - what do you think guys  ??? ??? ???

LOL Here You Go Lee  My old 67 Vert

was it Canary Yellow  ??? ??? ???

awesome looking fuchs.
and you know my preference of porsche's yellow shades, don't you?  ;)

yes but my picture is old the color looked like the 914 you posted it is a nice looking color but if you are going yellow Go all the Way Go Ferrari FLY YELLOW it is the Brightest Yellow there is

Forget the color, what`s up with the bumpers Shubee!? ;D ;)

They Go with The Chrome strips? You Didnt Know I Had a RESTO CAL did you except that was Bug in 13  The Car is still around its in Huntington Beach Ca, It has Been Redone but it is To Low for me I Sold it over 20 Years Ago

willow green!

Well guys here a very poor quality pic of a mock up for a dsah in the 66 - Question and comments please  ??? ;) :)

Losing the two smal gauges between the large two would clean it up a lot.

Hmm interesting BUT seeing as these are gonna be vdo "Jet Cockpit" guages I want to give it a kind of "Cockpit" feel  ;) :)

Also i think it might be a little plain with nothing between the big ones - thanks for the input though dude  :)

Not planning on window wipers are we?? You do live in the UK, right??? ;) I dont think those 3 gauges in the center will clear the motor...
Also, is that a dome light I spy all the way over to the right??? I doubt that will do you much good in that position... except blind you when you're getting in and out of the car ;)
I dont mean to come off as an ass, just trying to help you build a practical machine ;)

Hmmmm good point about the wiper motor - I will have to check the clearence - I think I might be ok as these 3 gueages are fairly shallow  ;) :)

And yep that is a VW interior/dome light over on the right - I know its not the IDEAL position but it will light up the footwell area as I climb in  ;) :)

Looks like your making some progress ;D
Settled on a colour yet??

See you for a beer at sandown if I`m back by then :)
Cheers,
Kev

Going to be like a cock-pit from a fighter Jet !! Nice work

Guards Red

hey that looks good to me, but i reallydepends on the steeringwheel you want to use. if it is a smaller one it will blind the 2 bigger clocks. and that would be a shame.
and the domelight does fill it up a bit too much for my liking as well.  :-\

otherwise:

vipergreen
condagreen
talbotyellow

Loose the interior light it wil only light up the backside of the steering wheel. My opinion  :-X
An BTW you have flipped the photo  ;) ;D ;D 

 ;D ;D ;D

we really can't get enough of that joke,can we?

I almost said that it was on the wrong side of the dash, but i was afraid it would not be funny anymore... but it is! ;D

i like the gauges layout,and willow green!

NOPE... Always funny! Although I doubt it's as funny to the ppl that live in RHD countries.  ;D ;D ;D

Thankyou dude  ;) :)

Also thankyou for the rest of the input guys and NO its not geting converted to LHD although I have been toying with the idea  :D :D :D

The interior light was abit of an after thought so that might not stay and after chatting with Shubee/Gary I do have another mock up in mind but I will let you know on that one  ;) :)

And don't worry there will be plenty of "idiot lights" and square "rocker sitches"  ;) :)

Put the interior light under the dash beneath the radio. It is out of the way, and still provides some light.

--louis

I think the dash is a bit too cluttered, TBH. I would lose the radio (or mount it under the ashtray section) and move the two small centre gauges to the outside of the  larger ones. Drop the three gauges under the wiper motor a bit so you'll have:

glovebox : small : small : small : small : large : large : small
             :    rocker switches  :

Then it should be : Midlife Crisis Red.

Funny my Dad just brought himself a RED mx5 - so now I really CAN'T paint her red  ;) :)

perhaps it can serve as inspiration??

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/pix/1974090.jpg)

peaches and scream is for sale btw, in case you wanna think twice and settle for a built car  :D :D ;)
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=578372 (http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=578372)

lee here's a cool 914/6 (yes the car has a 6cyl porsche engine) but this a nice green , I thought of you when I saw it

the same car  but without sun  :o

That is a LOVELY colour dude, I think its "Irish Green" its a bit too dark for me and there have been a couple of cars done in that colour already  ;) :)

there was a 914 at our meeting last night. i got to sit in it. they're such cool cars.
i like this one too! i'd swap the fooks though.
sorry to go off-topic here lads ;)

Right Guys its time to get this thread going again  ;) :)

I will be making a start on the body work soon and I really need some "hints & tips" on removal and replacement of the
Rear luggage area/bulkhead and the front Bulkhead.

Also any info about repairing the rear window area would also be handy - oh yeah and of course tips on welding up all 49 trim holes  ;) :)

One last thing please check this thread  ;) :)
http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,5053.msg78029.html#msg78029

Thanks for the help guys  :)

get yourself a spot weld drill bit, use this to drill out all the spot welds and the panels will just fall off, with a little help from a cutting disc.

Rear window - I would look to find another person who is scrapping their car, and cut these portions off, bare metal them etc and then weld in.

I need to do this to the bottom right (as you look at it).

Cheers dude - I was thinking I would need a spot weld drill bit - where do you get these?

And as for the rear window area - the window frame is fine its the area/panel BELOW the window (as per normal  ::))

I will be removing the "Vent" panel in the engine bay so I will be able to get a better look at this area then  :)

i got mine from my local motor factors, but i know frost sell them.  the vent panel can be drilled out, this was lyndon did on his old car, he then screwed it back so he always had access.

Thats what I thought dude  and I was planning on having that pannel "removable"  :)

So where do I get the BEST replacement panels ie: Rear Luggage area & the Front Bulkhead  ??? ??? ???

SSP sell the rear boot floor, not sure whats the best for other panels, look at autocraft, Wolf and then NOS.

If you want so save yourself a LOT, and I mean a LOT, of work... skip the spot weld drill.
They are meant for removing panels that you want to keep... you are out for the opposite result, as you what to keep one of the panels untouched, and couldn't care less about the other panel. What I like to do in these situations is to cut away the panel you want gone with a cutting disk, as close to the "flange" as possible. And then I grind away the flange with a sanding disk on the angle grinder, if you do it very careful you can remove the flange with minimal damage to the rest of the body. When the metal you are grinding turns blue you are almost there.  :P

VERY good point dude - I will have to look in to this but I think I will need to drill out SOME of the welds  :)

Dude,

I welded up the trim holes on my mates '54 - no prior experience!

Is not so tough, and my top tip is get a mate to hold a 2p piece behind the hole you are welding up, works a treat! :)


Good luck!

Thanks for the tip dude - only 49 holes to do then  ;) :)

We've got ginuwine front cross panels, boot floors are supposed to be on the way ::) rear cross members, rear quarters, late front quarters and heater channels(late).

Call me if you need anything ;D

Hey Guys - I know its been a while and there have been NO new post on this thread this is because I have been having LOADS of trouble with the Manx - a resault of driving her WAYYYYYYYYYYY to hard last year  ::) ;) :)

Anyway back to PROJECT 66 - What would you guys think if I turned her into a GASSER  :o ???

I have been toying with the idea for a while now and I know that when i get back from EBI2 I am gonna have LOADS of ideas - So what do you think guys  ???

Maybe a gasser look, but I prefer a car that you can put a lot of miles on ;)

nah a real callook is good enmough

gassers are made from ovals  ;D

same as zach lee  ,build a pure cal look and you will have more fun with the car on the road ,that on the track IMHO  ;)

yeah I know guys but it does get tempting sometiome  ;) :)

Lee, you already have one metal flakes paint car. Enough! Build a proper classic cal-look... ;)

yeah yeah I thought you lot might say something like this - Don't worry guys PROJECT 66 is still go go go  ;) :)

The boddy will be off as soon as i get back from EBI2 :)

Then it's out with the Guards Red, detailed Fuchs, plaid seat inserts, colour-coded headlamp rims and door handles and matt-black T-bars. Awesome! I knew you'd see sense in the end!  ;D

I just knew you'd drop in  ;) :) I already told you can't do it "Mid life crsis red" The rest sounds about right though :)

Something like this but in willow green  ??? ;) :)

very ve YES!!!! do it!

You can rely on me! ;D

Outch , sound perfect !!!
 ;D

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PM sent
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sounds like a good plan KS.this car reminds me of an oval or split that was featured in one of the first issues of volksworld all those years ago.it was porsche guards red with a black golde ragtop,detailed fuchs with no bumpers and the bumper holes welded up.it was a british car but i cant remember who owned it ??? i think it ran a porsche horizontal fan as well

67worshipper

oi when are we going to have a build up thread on your project ? ;D

I remember it - Phil Anning's oval. Think it was a RHD '54. Ivan and I had a conversation on another forum a couple of years ago about it! I loved it but Ivan pointed out some of the not so great bits like the mirrors! The overall look was right though. Made a great impression on me anyway!  ;)

A friend of mine called me yesterday and said he was going to Goodwood tomorrow - sadly I couldn't go as we've got a lot on and a deadline!  EBI - two shows this weekend - a four day week next week then Bug Jam... Anyway, he told me he was going in his new Porsche. I asked him what he'd bought and he got as far as saying 'A Guards Re... I'd put the phone down before he finished the word!

Dam right dude - GREEN ALL THE WAY  ;) :)

Here are a few contenders:

definitely no. 2 lee, don't go for no. 1

OR the colour neil davies posted a week or so ago.

You mean the car in the background, over to the left? Right on! ;D

Yeah I know I LOOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEEE "willow green" BUT I just love the idea of doing it in camper van "Tiger green" its just soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 70's  ;) :)

Here is one more contender BUT its a Metalic :o :o :o

lay off the chimaybeer Lee! that buscolour is a big nono. it just doesn't have that extra though that the porsche has...
and if we talk green porshes, i like this one, but it is different...

BTW that metallic green has my vote, but i just wouldn't paint my car a metallic colour again... but that said i always end up picking a metallic colour.

Lee that color looks better on a bus  or porsche on the Bug it look like Baby Shit Green LOL hope you dont go with that green

your probably right dude it was just an idea  ;) :)

I have been thinking ALOT about the delphi-green (metallic) BUT I have found it looks VERY VERY different in different light/pic's - what do you guys think  ???

or what about Viper green (top) or Palma green (below)  :)

Thats a nice looking color Lee

Conda Green is the Same Color Roger Crawfords Bad Company was also Ed Craigs 51 split was that color

I like the Palma Green

(http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3085.0;attach=18574;image)

This one gets my vote.

--louis

The second metallic color looks great in that pic, but the metallics might look a little too much like a LaGrande 70s Bug. 

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/345504.jpg)

i knew i liked that colour!!! and the vipergreen was an option as well for me!  ;D ;D ;D

Died, I can't remember yesterday, let alone a week or two ago! ;) Was it the '70 on Sprintstars in Elm Green? ???

yup elm green! ;)

lee, i like em all apart from apart from the palm green  ::)
and conda green has already been used for an awesome cal-looker...

delphi green would make it stand out though

there are some realy nice greens in this topic and ik will suit a 70ies callooker very well.  Your manx (had a look at EBI) turned out great, so the beetle will be no problem at all if you assemble it in the same style...

Good News! especially for all those out there that "Hate" my choise of guages  ;) :)

I scored an Ammeter AND Cylinder Head temp guages tonight - along with a couple of others including another tach and speedo  ::) oh well at least I got the other 2   :)

Anyone want to buy my spares  ???

You'll soon run out of dashboard with all these gauges...

There's always the windscreen pillars... ;)

Don't worry guys I have it worked out - I think  :-X ;) :)

I now have:

- Speedo
- Tacho
- Oil pressure
- Oil Temp
- Fuel
- Volts
- Ammeter
- Cylinder head temp x2  ;)
- oh and a clock

10 gauges in total  ;D

 ;D
 

you got a pb lee. 

pm sent - ps here's what thy look like with out rings/bezels  ;) :)

Don't worry I haven't forgotten - expect some updates VERY soon ;) :)

Cool, an update to come!

SPG engine ready?  ;D

Jerome

valve covers? http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=947476

 ??? ??? ??? This is the 66 Beetle thread dude not the manx  ;)

i know, but was to lazy to find it or pm you  :P

What is happening with this project now that you moved to Norway?
Xavier

Hmmm well......... The "original" car ment for this project was sold to "Robthemanx" before I left the uk and I think its becoming a Baja  :o :)

I am still planning on building a Cal Looker (hopefully within the next year!) and I still have a soft spot in my heart for a 66 BUT now I have this  ;) http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,16494.0.html
and I can't stop thinking about using this little beauty as the base for an AWESOME cal looker - but should I ??? That is the question ??? ;) :)

Cough Cough..... PROJECT 51  ;)

And YES I had an email from Gary the other day saying he's almost finished the quote/costs for the complete motor  :)

Does that mean Russell's old 66 got parted out?That is a shame.

OK just to be honest and I appreciate I may get a "flaming", but to be honest I wasn't involved with the outcome...

So, I'm not sure what Rob did with the bodyshell, I'm pretty sure someone has restored it?

But anyway I bought the shortened pan with a new shell on and it now looks like this. It should be ready for Bug Jam.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/downlowmatt/Blue%20boy%20buggy/DSC02920.jpg)

Rob PLEASE read what I wrote carefully! I did not "Blame" you I just mentioned it was becoming a Baja  :)