Bella - 1958 Australian Beetle

thanks Tanya

Thats bonkers, Im in love!

hmmm reading this thread is making robbing a bank look more and more attractive

Just fitted the seats:

i do love this bug

Okies, back from a weekend away with Evvo in Germany. Went to Bad Camberg and Wolfsburg - highly reccomended!

Anyway - back to reality with a bump - and onto the rear brakes. Finally managed to get one of the hub nuts off! Woo hoo!




All pulled apart, wire brushed and given a coat of POR-15.


More after lunch

Oh and here's the welded in other a pillar repair pic:

Shiny new brakes are in:





If anyone sees anything wrong -please say!

Looks good same as the pic when you took of but newer

Yeah that's what I was working from!

i put her alloy back on, refitted the rear wing and the running board and pushed her out for some more piccys:






And a little video of her being lowered off the jack onto her wheels:

When are you gonna lower it


Looks Grrrreat

Looks the absolute mutts mate, well done, keep the pics coming!!!

She certainly is a low bug

Lower than your Nans tits!!!!!

I must say I absaloutley LOVE Bella! Her wheels are goregous and she looks absaloutley amazing!!!! SOOOOOOOO LOW!!!!!!!!!!

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Big Blue Betty wrote:

I must say I absaloutley LOVE Bella! Her wheels are goregous and she looks absaloutley amazing!!!! SOOOOOOOO LOW!!!!!!!!!!

xxxx

Better get minty on the floor then

Yeah i don't think there's a wheel in existance which would have suited her better than the detailed radars - I had to get them when i was told about them being for sale!

Gonna go out again and do battle in a bit. Expect more pics!

Been out playing with her again today. Got the other hub nut off:


Pulled all the brakes apart and painted up the face of the drums and the backing plate. This time the bolts for the backing plate to come off came off, so I'm replacing all the seals etc.


And I managed to get a semaphore working



More when they've dried.

well done Lucy

Just gotta work out how to get the wiring for the other semaphore back up through..... it doesn't seem to want to go back

Are you able to push some stiff thin wire down and solder the end to your wire and then pull it back up through??

Yeah that's what i thought would work - but I don't appear to have any wire which is flexible enough to go down the pillar, but strong enough not to just bend and not go anywhere....

I've found an old bit of window chrome works really well - it's just not long enough

welding wire, metal coat hanger something like that normally does the job then tape the wire to it..

Tried welding wire - it just bent

I'll try a coat hanger tho, that might work

Ta!

Today I did some more wiring, it's about 80% done now, which is good.


Then Steve got home and Lukey came over to help me put the pass side door back on - which didn't take long... but getting it to shut right took Luke forever to do! And then the gaps were way off so it's all gotta be done again but for now it's staying shut!


Got the rear brakes all together too. Sorry about the pic - couldn't find my camera at the time (yet again!) so had to use phone:

Your get the door right if it starts doing the head in walk away and try again another day i cant wait to see this bug out at a show or meet