Hi all, Its been a very long time since I have made a post of this length. Today's number of posts has brought back a great bit of nostalgia for me. After all it was this list that actually got me my beetle. Anyways I wanted to give you a recap of whats gone on it probably about the last 15 years of owning this Beetle. I won't ever sell it, its got a life time place in my garage.
The car itself has gone through a few iterations. I did a refresh for my highschool grad with a new interior, fresh 1600dp, disc brakes and it was VERY slammomatic. It got put into storage for a year while I spent a year abroad. I came back sorted out the last few niggly things. Was all geared up to spend the show season enjoying the car when disaster struck. I got rearended on my way to an event that I had planned by another bug. It wiped out the rear apron, fender, decklid etc. At that point I wasn't quite sure what to do since the paint was pretty faded out most likely from some cheap respray. At that point with the encouragement of my friends I blew it all apart for a complete rotesserie resto. It spent 3 years in the body shop. Luckily because it was a California car it had virtually no rust. Although the only original bolt on panels that are on the car I'm pretty sure are the hood, drivers front fender, and passenger door and possibly the passenger rear fender. Body work was slow. And amongst all this I moved out of town to go to university and life ultimately got in the way. 5 years ago I bought a house with a 23x23 foot heated shop(Long potentially cold winters here). The bug came home and I started working on it again after 8 months renoeing my 1962 British Columbia box house. I made decent headway and then eventually got engaged. And like what had happened in prep for the original tight deadline for my beetle, it happend again. I was determined to get it finished for my wedding. I managed to finish putting together the Resto-cal look car of my dreams. It turned out better than I expected, yet I can see all its flaws that probably no one else will ever notice. Its super gratifying to see it sitting parked some where and every one comments on how shiney it is. And then after enjoying it for a month or so 6 weeks before my wedding the new 1914 developed a horrible rattle and lost power. I limped it home, tore it apart and found out that some piece of hardware had made it's way down the intake and had beat up cylinder head and piston top. Luckily Volkswagen people are the best. I had friends loan me a 1600dp and my car managed to make it to my wedding. Over the fall I have torn the 1914 down and am just waiting on receiving the cylinder head back from Brothers Machine shop. So of course I'm going to have a ton of questions. This is my first motor build. Albeit all the parts have under 1000 miles on them. Long term thoughts with this car are to eventually add air conditioning. I also terribly want a Split window van to round out the fleet. But I'm going to have to wait a bit on that. In the mean time I have to finish sorting out my new daily driver(Nissan Xterra) and then it's time to figure out how to get this 1914 back together. Enough ramblings for this evening. Thanks for reading. -Kirin Seabert 1962 Turkis Restocal.... -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/vintagvw@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintagvw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to vintagvw@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
