Well i forgot to put this up but we sold the 1972 blue beetle we had. This is her loaded up to be delivered to Kevin. I know she is gone to a good home.
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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 [...]
Well i haven’t done much work on the blue beetle in the last few days. I have the paint ordered. Its taking a while to match the paint. I was supposed to be getting it today but now it is going to be next week. I know I can start the prep work but I’m [...]
Right, quick update, managed to get the wiring sorted. The ignition live from the fuse box to the speedo had been broken and so it only required a quick repair and all is well and good. So now all the electrics are working. Thank god, it has seemed like the last week took about a [...]
I’m getting sick to the teeth of wiring, how is it that something so small is so blooding annoying. Yesterday I went to bring the beetle for a test drive. First problem was I had no warning lights, no oil light and no charge light. I know the system is working fine so I drove [...]
I was working on the blue beetle again tonight. I’m nearly there with the wiring. I have two small problems still to solve. This is how it looked when I started tonight. First problem I had was the radio issue. After consulting the good folk of www.eircooled.com with no immediate solution, I decided the grinder [...]
Tonight I started the wiring on the beetle, boy its a mess. First problem was that the lights weren’t working properly so that was first on the todo list. I finally figured out the wiring diagram (why are they printed so small) and it was easy after that. Next up I started chasing some of [...]
Another job over the weekend was the exhaust, it was old and rusty and looked like shit so I replaced them with new ones I had around the garage. Old New on the car:
Well I’m just finished in the garage for the weekend. With the two new bugs home we wanted to give them a once over and make a start on the work for them. That reminds me I must start a file for each of them now. First up was the blue 72 bug. The wheels [...]
Folks, As i mentioned last week we were looking at another car. It was “we” because at this stage I don’t know who owns half the cars in our garage. For those of you who don’t know me that well, when it comes to cars my father any myself work on most things together. Its [...]
