Bella - 1958 Australian Beetle

Cant believe i missed all the updates, its looking awesome!!! Slammed!

I forgot how much I like love this car!!!

Cheers peeps - hopefully won't be too long till you get to meet her! Hoping that CTTP08 will be her first show but then again, i thought CTTP07 would be

Shamrockez wrote:

Cheers peeps - hopefully won't be too long till you get to meet her! Hoping that CTTP08 will be her first show but then again, i thought CTTP07 would be

Ok so we went to Vanfest and didn't buy anything for vans - despite having 4 of them! We did get stuff for Bella tho - an Aussie visor (be rude not to considering where she came from!) and new reflectors, rubbers, clips, screws etc etc for both headlights - those alone came to a scary £90!

Anyway - the light parts will be sent, but we tried the visor on roughly to see what it looked like when we got home:

She just gets better and better

Love it this car is great

I bet you are really lookin forward to cruising the streets in that Ride of yours! Can't wait to see her when she is finished!

I WANT you car!!!

Cheers peeps

Nope I can't wait to get out and about in her - been so long since I drove a proper Bug! Just got to get a few issues sorted first. Dunno if I should complain to Heritage about the loom they sent me - it's obviously LHD despite me ordering RHD and them not listing any RHD ones.... but I've cut and extended it a few times, so I doubt they'd take it back

Scoops - she's mine, all mine! Muhahahaha

Loosely bolted the rear bumper, rear valance and tail pipes, then fitted the luggage rack:






Hopefully get a bit of time to work on her tomorrow - might even be able to put her proper front wheels back on

Looks

Lucy theres not much i can say about her is there.... Apart from Looking sweet as ever..

Best get on with working on her if you guys are ever gonna meet her!

Done a bit of wiring today. It started off with the under bonnet looking like this:


And ended up looking like this:


Much neater! Altho no way near finished - but at least I can see where all the wires are going to now

Then I set about the headlight loom. The loom which I was supplied with must be a LHD not a RHD loom - nothing fits in the right place! So rather than go through the annoyance at having to take it all out again, I've relocated the fuse box on the other side - ok, so it's not original, but hey - it works! I'd rather have a rewired car with the fuse box in the wrong place over an original car with an original tired loom any day - and her original one was particually shocking!

Another problem I had with the loom was that the headlight wiring was no way near long enough. The wiring for the pass side didn't go all the way through the headlight tube on the wing so you couldn't connect anything, and the driver's side loom stopped short half way through the spare wheel well! Not much use unless I wanted to light up my headlight tubes and my spare wheel well.

So what I did was change the pass and driver's side wiring over - so the pass side now reaches fine, then I ordered some new wires to make up the headlight wiring for the driver's side (plus a few extras):


So I cut them to lengh (a bit long at the mo till I've got everything sorted - then I'll cut it down to the right size), and taped them up to give a mock loom so I knew roughly how long it would have to be to fit in all the right places. I couldn't find any grey wires of the correct size so I've got orange instead:


So now she's almost there wiring wise. A few more connectors to connect to the right places, headlights to fit etc and much more tidying up to do, but I'm happy for now.

I love a nice tidy loom, looks great

Me too - doubt mine will ever look this good tho!

Bella's in an Russian magazine!
http://onlydropped.com/main/RestoMagazineNr2.pdf


And - I've ordered a 5in narrowed beam for her

Ow cool is that well done and shes not even on the road yet

Yeah it's ace! I have no idea what it says mind

It said this car looks the nuts and is hard as nails

Fair shout Lucy 3 pages spread and she hasn't rolled a legal wheel yet

I know! Weird isn't it? The only feature she'll ever get tho so I might as well enjoy it!

The Newbie's got a mini feature in this months VW Driver too

Fair play Lucy, looking good, I'd love to know what it says though....!!!!