Sure got a bunch. Any suggestions on how to link them? They are on the usual social media suspects. -Kirin
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 5:59 AM 'Rayvwbug' via VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List <vintagvw@googlegroups.com wrote: > Hi Kirin. , > > Any pics of you, your bride, and your beetle at the wedding? > > Thanks > > Ray > > > Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE smartphone > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Kirin Jacobsen <kirinjacob...@gmail.com> > Date: 1/23/19 10:38 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: vintagvw@googlegroups.com > Subject: [vintagvw] State of Seabert > > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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. 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