Heres the first pics of my 72 beetle, still gotta get it home but have room in the workshop for it now so hopefully work can start this week

cool, one of those LE Harliquin models!

what are your plans bud

What about engine wise??

Looks solid enough fella, going to be ace! just don't let wimmen try and control your car future!
just stick with it, should never have sold the '02 IMHO!

I like 02's........a really understated model.......I remember one in Volksworld. White paint and lowered. Really subtle. It was bloody lovely.

O2's are great!! Brilliant handling flat screen and steel dash on the early ones......Damn I want another one now!!

Big Al your right should have kept hold of the O2 and got rid of the missus

its cool you're back into the scene ...sorry to have missed your 02 ....have you got any old pics?? ...

your chance to rescue and old school swing axle

I haven't got any electronic copies of my 1300.
Wish I knew where it was. I would love to get it back.....

She's home now!!

Massive Thanks to Steve(nomates) and the Pikey's transit




Steve's reversing skills with a trailer are legendary


She don't look to bad thought i might be able to do a fairly easy rebuild and refit




Sits fairly low already



Lit'un has decided it's her beetle and had to have photo wiv 'her car' but start um young eh

Thought i'd get her in the workshop so i could get all the extra that came with her away and empty out everything that had been loaded into her.

Got her emptied out and in the workshop so decided to have a poke around it!!


Theres good bits and bad bits

Good bits new lowered beam and disc brakes framhead looks solid, 2 good interiors and loads of other new bits waiting to go on




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Under seat looks good

Bad bits, took N/S wings off bad repair to front and rear quarters and rear arch rotten out







Poor quality repairs to rear of floor pans



Gonna get the interior out, strip carpets and take off O/S wings next......
Think body will be coming off so it can be done properly

....good work dude ....its not too bad at all

Got another couple of hours on her today so stripped O/S wings off to see what had been hidden on that side

Front inner arch replacement is a bodge up same as near side so will have to come off and be redone

Repairs need to be made to heater channel where it mets front arch



Bottom edge of rear quarter looked good but turned out that the bottom edge was fiberglass


And previous repairs to heater channel closing panel still atached to floor pan, but closing panels have been replaced

rear corner has had a bad repair to quarter panel to in arch, plate has been put in but there are atill big holes around it and lots of filler


Haven't gone much further just took glass out screen surrounds are all good and rear cargo area carpeting, and the firewall is good



But did find find filler in the rain gutters so dug it out to find the were rotten but repairable

Looks like whoever done the work was a master at seam sealer/filler/fibreglass welding