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Dug this out last weekend...



:smile:

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Looks interesting, have you got anymore pictures from the dig?

I took a few.











It took me 5 hours on my own to get it this far...





It took 2 of us another 3 hours to get it to the road side!

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Dedication :thumbup:

how do you keep finding these cars Julian:smile:

They find me!

The story of this one is that when I had a proper job (with an insurance company) I used to arrive home to find VW parts on the drive.. Some of them I found out where they were from and others I didnt have a clue... there were always VWs on the drive and I always drove air cooled to work...

Last week I got a message via an old VW shop that I know that an old customer of theirs had a '61 Beetle to sell.. turned out he lives 1/2 a mile from my old house... has owned splits, Beetles bays etc... and used to put VW parts on my drive... I didnt know him... I might have bumped into him in the VW shop but thats it..

He had tracked me down over 8 years later and wanted me to dig it out and buy it... so I did... Its a funny world!

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On eBay

https://bit.ly/MA4Jpr 

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Update - Its going to some one I know in Stevenage.. he will be doing a full body off restoration.

:)

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:thumbup:

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Hope he comes on to this site and shows us the re-birth of the 61:thumbup:



Andy W

He is going to lower it so it is unlikely to be seen here again..



But today I collected this South Aftican Strange one...



Its King and Link pin front with late other stuff...

Hopefully some one will save it?

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They are oddballs. A friend had one many years ago. King Link pin chassis 1600 engine narrow shoes on the drum brakes. Also has this got the odd rear light mounts and remote reflectors on the wings?




Andy W

Yes, strange back lights and little reflectors..

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The most interesting modern mixes for me are the 1980s Brazilian Beetles. They have the pre65 small window bodies with all the modern stuff fitted.

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