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Brought another VW home today...

I ran across this in someone's signature on Samba:

"1960 VW bug/pickup conversion (junk)"

I sent him a message asking if he had pics of it. He sent me a few and I offered a trade of a tacked together rolling sand rail chassis for it,

Today, after 276 miles and 3/4 tank of diesel, the Baja Volkstruckin' project has a new home in my detached garage. Other than smelling like a dead cat, it's in much better shape than expected. Pans look good, body is straight with very little rust, and the pickup conversion looks very well done.

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I may stretch the wheel base slightly by using a tube chassis to allow a bike carrier to be built in between the bed and engine, with a flat bed spare tire holder over the engine. I need to check the length of my Yamaha to see if this is feasible or not...

Other plans:

4 point cage inside 4 point on the rear, tied to the inside cage Build my 1776 back with a good set of cases Conversion to IRS Rebuild the other 002 transaxle Cut down '67 front fenders with reinforced edges

I'll upload more pics than I post here to my web site, they're available to anyone interested at:

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Les '76 Baja (Rolled but still rolling) '60 Volkstruckin' Baja project

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Project Magnet #1
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Here's a pickup conversion from Finland....

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Jan

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Jan Andersson

Nice fabrication... Mine won't be that nice by any means, I plan on taking it off-road just like I do the '76. Hope I don't roll it like I did the '76 though...

Les

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Project Magnet #1

I hope those pipes were wrapped before that thing was run.

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Otherwise, there's an overheating problem that spells disaster.

Reply to
John J

Ah, very cool, Les. I look forward to following your progress on this project. I always liked the truck conversions done to the Beetles. I came close to buying one about 7-8 years ago. Take plenty of pictures, please.

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Shag

I do tend to take a lot of pics. It's easy since I always have my cell phone, the camera on it takes decent quality pics. If I wasn't getting ready to load up and head out off-roading for the weekend, I'd be working on it already.

Les

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Project Magnet #1

Jan - do you know if there is a write up to go with the photo's ? That looks really interesting .

Rich

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tricky

Yea it's more or less covered on our finnish message board, but in finnish :)

Jan

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Jan Andersson

Any chance of a link ?

I'll try and babel it :)

Ta

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tricky

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Jan Andersson

Heres what a customer gave me today

to keep on topic it was used as a farm truck and the prefect setup to jump start the tractor.

its a shame it really doesn't have much rust, I'm thinking I might save it the front fenders and doors were removed and stored its said to have been "running when parked"

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Kafertoys

Thanks

I'll let you know how I get on ! LOL !

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tricky

Google does an interesting, but just about readable translation :)

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tricky

Did you notice this link on the forum?

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J.

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P.J.Berg

Yes thanks. Jan posted it in this thread - thats what got me looking for the text to go with the pictures :)

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tricky

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