New dbs family member

very true that dude cant wait to get the 03 on the deck and moted

dubberatlast wrote:

and what was behind it all

surely being yellow & stuffed with these, it should be called..... "Spongebob" !!

true but its a girl and got a name shes roxie missis picked it her car cant argue

'kin hell, you found sponges rammed in there? What a bodge! Not too bad seeing as it was free, but imagine the unlucky sod who bought through the years not knowing that.

good thing i didnt just weld the hole up fire was def

vwbeetlebum wrote:

'kin hell, you found sponges rammed in there?

Ive found newspaper in sills, a piece of old fridge masquerading as a floor but my best was a sierra i bought for sod all that had a sizeable chunk of carved railway sleeper (smothered in underseal) actin as the sill end!

gotta laugh at bodges

saw this car in the flesh last night, what an utter bargain, and it'l be a beuatiful car with a good t cut and polish!

Cheers dude bit of welding to do but the missis just needs a usable bug so no major resto just cut out crap and weld in fresh metal heres some rust

Springs and shocks of the car ready for the lower aproach



sorry rich couldnt finish it as i cant get the nut undone on the top of the shocks

getting there though mate

Cleverchap wrote:

I've got a pair of front steel 944 calipers £40 and their yours.
Will also have a pair of 944 hubs machined to fit straight onto beetle spindles very soon,£80, or can do a deal for both at £100.

Looks like a very tidy bug, whats the pan like?

would love them but funds are nothing at mo, pans in good nick to be honest cant wait to get it on the floor

dubberatlast wrote:

Springs and shocks of the car ready for the lower aproach



sorry rich couldnt finish it as i cant get the nut undone on the top of the shocks

get some mk1 golf coilovers thats what me and gem have decided for ellenor

also what does the nut look like at the top dude i mite have a tool for it

Lack of funds dude so a grinder and cut the springs in half will do

itsabuglife wrote:

also what does the nut look like at the top dude i mite have a tool for it

its a 22m nut but i need a 22m ring ended but bent spanner

a swan neck then
when do you need one i may have ive got a huge set of swan neck spanners

Mate just get your spring clamps out and clamp the springs and cut them on the shocks thats how we used to do it back in the day..

no i cant cut them when compressed always took them out never had the guts to cut them on there

front end is now lowered but not enough so going to try again soon







just to show how high it was

Looks much better with the front down a bit!

Yeah but you can still get under it with out it jacked up

Does look better though buddy..

2 more coils of the springs will sort it i hope if not i will take the bloody things out

How many coils did you lop off to get it to the height it is in the pics dude?

4 coils but from the end where they are not bunched together if that makes sence