With all the work on the buggy I forgot to tell ye all that the red 70 beetle is gone to a new home. There was a few jobs to do before it went. The front suspension had to be rebuilt. The previous owner had removed the grease nipples allowing moisture into the beam, thankfully [...]
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The last panel for the red beetle was delivered to the paint shop last week. She should be back in about 2 weeks. It would be nice to drive her for a day or two before she goes to a new home.
I haven’t been updating the blog lately because i haven’t been doing a lot of work in the garage lately. Work has been busy and the family has been a bit under the weather so between one thing and another the garage stuff has been put on the long finger BUT i want to start [...]
Dad decided to start work on the red bug today so he got the engine ready to pull out and I gave him a hand to actually drop it out. I really don’t understand some people who work on beetles, there were 3 repairs to the accelerator cable, the repair parts would have cost more [...]
Well Alma and myself flew over to Mancherster on Thursday morning to collect the 70 (Red Bug). To be honest it was a fairly uneventful trip, thankfully. We had about a 3 hour drive to the ferry and 7 hours to do it so we took our time, Alma even managed to get some shopping [...]
1970 CAL LOOK, BRAND NEW 1641CC ENGINE WITH CERAMIC MONDO EXHAUST, PORSCHE COOKIE CUTTER ALLOYS, DISC BRAKES ON THE FRONT, LOWERED FRONT BEAM, NEW STAINLESS STEAL US STYLE BUMPERS Nicest thing about this car is the interior. It looks better than it did the day it came of the production line.
