I am not sure but I think you can link a few now? Anyone else have ideas?
Thanks
Ray
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From: Kirin Jacobsen <kirinjacob...@gmail.com>
Date: 1/24/19 10:06 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: vintagvw@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [vintagvw] State of Seabert
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
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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....
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