Belgian 1300 '68, soon with real horsepower...

[roland]

yeah scary, and that's just the beginning...

j-f, merci, il en faudra!

[Jesse Wens]

I'm from belgium too, Looks like a good blasting job. Would you mind telling me we're it was done and what kind of process (gritt) they use ?
Hope to see it driving real soon.
greetings
jesse

[beetletom]

cool colour, i have a diamond blue 70'


what did you do with the blue interior? as i am after a blue interior for me beetle.

thanks, tom.

[roland]

I'm from belgium too, Looks like a good blasting job. Would you mind telling me we're it was done and what kind of process (gritt) they use ?
Hope to see it driving real soon.
greetings
jesse

I did that at finition métal in Ittre. Good job but they sanded the roof, and that's lame. You have to ask them no to do that.

And i'm not sure of the process, the best would be to call them...

[roland]

Some news at last: gearbox arrived!

Rancho pro-drag with gusseted Rhino case, heavy duty side plates, quaife, etc etc.

Not too short because i have to drive the car to meetings, no way i'm becoming a trailor queen. I need to find the papers with the gears...

Bodywork was stopped because i needed doors to align the front panels, so now that i have them it will be moving soon.

A pic of the baby:

[speedwell]

that remind me a tuesday afternoon 
 
speedwell

[j-f]

Nice job.
Hope te see it quickly on the road and on the track.
 

[roland]

So because my 68 wouldn't be ready for this season, i had to find myself a ride for this summer... And it would be a Zenith blue late looker, of course!

Got this 1500 70 cab' thanks to Pat, quite scary actually. But i knew with some propoer care, it could be great. It's quite sound actually, and the engine only had 40 000km on it. Just a few bumps..


So it got new brakes, engine overhaul, etc etc, Dropped spindles and chromed 2 litres fuchs:



But still, the front was too high and wide, so Xavier narrowed the front beam from 5cm and added a sway-a-way kit:



Lots of little details are different from when i got it: seats without headrests, deluxe rubber on front bumper, etc etc. Now it only needs to be 3cm lower on the back and it'll be the perfect daily driver! It even has heating!
So i know for some of you it might be what you call a hoodride  but still, i think i'm never gonna sell that bug anymore... So much fun.

And no, i'm not re-paintig or waxing or washing it. Ever.

[speedwell]

  DAS HOODRIDE 

[beetletom]

i saw it at vw action, just awesome! 

[j-f]

Nice futur project car. 
Late models rocks.

But, what's happen to the passenger door  hits by a Fork lift or so?

[Dirk / DFL]

What a cool car, love late models....

[yvre]

But, what's happen to the passenger door  hits by a Fork lift or so?

It's an external glovebox. A pretty rare option...

[roland]

finally after 8 months of nothing, i got my car in a new bodyshop!

it's going to Laurent Dejeaifve recently opened "Old dream car" shop.

You might know Laurent trough his lowligh Karmann-ghia, which is quite nice, and that's the understatement of the year.

Car at the new place, i think it's in good hands. 




I believe that will be faster and done better. Happy me.

Also, a peek at the seats:



Got proper read disc brakes for narrow axles, and I got my heads back from Steve's VW shop, now Pat can just throw them on the engine. But i can't show you those, it's Belgian secret power porting, and i'd have to kill you.

[Diederick/DVK]

that ghia is awesome!
i hope it will work out for you too!

[yvre]

Baja seats??? 

[roland]

Baja seats??? 

Yep, they could also fit in a baja bug, although you'd want the ones with headrest. I think these are proper cal-look!

[ESH]

When do you think your Bug will be finished? Our late model is still very much 'in the works' but we just completed stage one of the body work so 2008 is definitely possible. Anyway all the best.

 

[Neil Davies]

When do you think your Bug will be finished? Our late model is still very much 'in the works' but we just completed stage one of the body work so 2008 is definitely possible. Anyway all the best.

 

And I'm hoping my late model will be ready soon too Mat! Got a Golf Cab in for a wiring problem and a GTi needing an engine swap, then it's full steam ahead on the '70/'72. Should be in paint by the end of February I hope! Need to decide on a colour too - I can't find anything to match Klingaman blue!

[roland]

Well the goal is European Bugin 2, but, you know, the sooner the best

(as if the car could be finished in time, and that we wouldn't have to work all night before EBI, right...)

[yvre]

End of the summer looks reasonnable to me. But damn that car will kick ass when it's done !!! 

[roland]

  can't wait yvre...

[wolfswest]

success with your project.  I see you are doing it very detailed, nice!

Keep up the good work.


Dem

[ESH]

...the goal is European Bugin 2...

We had a similar idea time wise for ours, we'll see. 

See you next season. 

[JS]

How will you mount the seats?

[roland]

I stiill have to think that through, but most probably i'll use stock seat bases to fit to the rails..

[roland]

Latest news:

Gearbox is in, front end is in, engine is progressing well, heads are on, now on the metalwork of the engine's tinware..

As for the body, laurent, in 2and a half day, did quite an amazing amount of work: see for yourself (and also i don't know the english words for these parts of the body...)

[roland]

more bodywork:

Each time i go to this place, i got such a big smile because things are finally moving!

[roland]

And i think the color choice is set. 

[tikimadness]

nice color.

do you think you will make it before the start off the season?

michael