my father in law has the perfect setup....sounds just as you describe above...the building is 36x60 with 14ft ceilings, 12 foot tall roll up doors(three) and a downdraft paintbooth....has its own frame machine.....all in his backyard, in the distance...sweeeeeeeet...
my wife would never....she knows that is grounds for divorce....
Man, that's just sick! Hope he isn't too far away from where you are or, better yet, near me :)
about fifteen minutes from me.....but i don't use his shop reguarly.... he does have a 71 standard bug at his shop that he and i will refurbish to its former glory as a rolling advertisement for an exterminating service...."Brown's Exterminating"....."we kill bugs"....has an arrow through the top....hehe...gonna need channels and pans, and possibly lower A and B pillars...definitely rear quarter panels...should be a fun weekend...
Nice to have a place like that at your disposal. Good to know people with access to good stuff. A buddy of mine work in a shop for Metro North (Train to NYC) and he will pretty much media blast anything I pass him - of course, I've rewired half his house, put an alarm in and he needs his basement to be finished now. He's also mentioned that his wife wants a deck built in the spring and will need my "help". Help with him means that he'll keep me company while I build his deck. But at least my parts are getting super clean :) Don't know anyone with a paintbooth, but maybe I can rent one at some point. (Unless someone in CT needs help finishing a basement building a deck? :)
That advertisement bug would be cool -- you can do something like that over a weekend? Wow! That's what separates the men from the boys (or certainly the pros from the amateurs) You were a body man at some point?
One's a boy and one's a girl. Look between the exhaust pipes. You should know what to look for.
stripping the car down and replacing the bad/rusted panels, yes in a weekend...finish bodywork will take a bit longer.....but the father inlaw is the bodyman....no, i am not a bodyman, but grew up in a family chocked full of mechanics and bodymen....guess some of it stuck....the father in law likes for me to do the larger jobs he gets as far as the welding goes...he is capable, but i used to weld for a living, so he cons me into it...LOL
Easy way to tell is to look at the front. If the trunk lid is wider by the bumper, it's a super beetle
I think the one most obvious difference is the louvres behond the back windows on the super. You can spot them from quite a distance and at any speed!!!
the 71-on standards also had the louvers that were part of the "flow through ventilation" system...not unique to a superbeetle...
Those are easy to spot, but they are not Super Beetle specific. They are , however, specific to all VW beetle bodies built after 1970. this is often used as an identifier for the first year iof the Super Beetle. It just happens to be the same louvre that shows up on all US models after 1970. Remove "YOURPANTIES" to reply
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On Saturday I was at the small museum that is in VWoA in Auburn Hills, MI and the '94 Mexican Beetle on display had the half moon vents, I know that later Mexican Beetles did not but I don't know what year.
I've been known for some rather novice questions. But yeah even after all this time i'm still kinda absent minded.
Today I drove my 72 superbeetle on the road for the 2nd time. I need to take it to the mechanic so I drove it to work. Ice was on all the windows.
While driving I noticed the defrost wires for what they were... defrost wires!!
Ok I think you guessed it. I've been all over my little car and I just do not know how to turn those little guys on!!!
Sure would have been nice to see out the back window driving to work today. I turned the little fan knob on the dash but I don't think that helped.
Any ideas gentlmen and ladies?
You absent minded uncle Raul
There's a little rocker switch on the underside of the dash to the left of the steering column and just above the fuse box. Pic here:
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