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Title: Started Work On My '65
Post by: goldfish on January 04, 2008, 09:39:52 PM
I got me beetle about a year ago from a member on here. Until a month ago it has been up in my barn waiting for room in the garage. I finaly made room and moved the other half finished MGB project up to the barn. I just started doing work 2 weeks ago and just do whatever I can every now and then when I have time. I have the body pretty much ready to come off. Anyway here are some pics. some of them are pretty blurry
Outside
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In the carport
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Fenders off
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Ugly floor pan Seats out
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Wiring mess
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Engine is out
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Under the hood
before
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now
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Fenders, hood, new floors
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Dash
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All cut up
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Headliner
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Seats
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More pics here: http://s126.photobucket.com/albums/p94/Con...Beetle/?start=0 (http://s126.photobucket.com/albums/p94/Conner65/1965%20Beetle/?start=0)

I'll  add more pics as I go.

 
Title: Started Work On My '65
Post by: beetleboy on January 10, 2008, 09:45:30 PM
looks good man :rockon:  
Title: Started Work On My '65
Post by: KOOL-AID MAN on February 06, 2008, 05:24:37 PM
Sweet! good to see the old car again... sorry about my shitty fiberglass repair job on the inner heater channel, It was just a temporary fix up.... Good luck with the project!

Tom
Title: Started Work On My '65
Post by: silas on February 06, 2008, 06:56:02 PM
nanoose bay!!! i'll have to stop in for a quick bevi when i'm on the island next.

if you're close to the old island highway, i've probably driven by your house many times over the years!!
Title: Started Work On My '65
Post by: goldfish on February 06, 2008, 07:53:23 PM
Im in Rockinghorse. Near the pub down at the end of a road.
We cut all the fiberglass off and the body is now off the car but we dont have anywere to put it so its no 2 pipes with 4 sawhorses.  when we have time were going to cut the old pans out with the plasma cutter.
Title: Started Work On My '65
Post by: goldfish on February 25, 2008, 08:07:27 PM
Body is outside and covered, Me and my dad cut out the driver side floor and have the new floor ready to be put in. didn't have time to cut the other out.
Title: Started Work On My '65
Post by: kafer_kid86 on February 25, 2008, 09:52:39 PM
ohhhh ya she was a beaut eh tom! gotta love those floors i remember them to well
Title: Re: Started Work On My '65
Post by: goldfish on October 26, 2008, 09:31:02 PM
We finally got around to do some work on it. After taking all the junk that we put on top of it off the grinded off all the remains form the floor pans and got the new ones welded it. I might start cleaning up some of the other stuff tommorow. then I can start working on the body.
Title: Re: Started Work On My '65
Post by: goldfish on November 20, 2008, 05:58:51 PM
Got some more work done yesterday and today after school..
Got the Transmission out
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Transmission waiting in line
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Got the front beam off
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Front part before:
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And after
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Title: Re: Started Work On My '65
Post by: goldfish on January 24, 2009, 08:11:05 PM
Moved it out of the shop yesterday to do some sandblasting. Its almost done, just needs a some more touching up at the back. Then it needs to get a bit warmer so we can primer and paint it
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Thats to bottom, I'll flip it tommorow when I'm done sand blasting
Title: Re: Started Work On My '65
Post by: KOOL-AID MAN on January 25, 2009, 01:38:20 AM
looks like your doing some good work there! one thing i might suggest is running the fuel line through the transmission tunnel. It's a bitch but you got it all apart so it might not be to too bad.
Title: Re: Started Work On My '65
Post by: Bruce on January 25, 2009, 11:26:17 AM
I second that recommendation.  It took me 10 min to insert a new fuel line in a 66 pan with the body on.  At this point, it will be easy to put it inside.
Title: Re: Started Work On My '65
Post by: goldfish on May 06, 2009, 07:48:28 PM
Thanks for the advice, I'll probably do that.
I started doing some work on the tranny.
I took the axles off
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and painted the transmission.
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Title: Re: Started Work On My '65
Post by: Jeremy on May 06, 2009, 08:28:30 PM
Nice work there GoldFish. I noticed you pressed the bearing housings off. Are you going to narrow the axle tubes?  8)
Title: Re: Started Work On My '65
Post by: Bruce on May 10, 2009, 11:04:55 AM
You need to grind off the paint from the mounting flange for the starter.  Starters don't work very well when they are electrically insulated from the rest of the car.
Title: Re: Started Work On My '65
Post by: goldfish on October 25, 2011, 10:26:51 PM
Forgot I had a thread on here. It's a Baja now, converted to irs, bus transmission, 6" over beam and disk brakes all around. Here's a couple recent pics.
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