Aircooled VW South Africa

flatfourfan wrote:^^^^^^ lmao, you did not just say that did you Herman?.................his so called design sucks ass.........IMHO. He could look at a carrot and go yes yes.......I'm feeling something here.......the dude and his band of tools are a hose.

Sorry I agree with you, just tried to get a good debate going here, but nobody wanted to byte... ..

Oh !! well, maybe next topic, we will have to save the POP corn as well..



Herman

retrovan wrote:

flatfourfan wrote:^^^^^^ lmao, you did not just say that did you Herman?.................his so called design sucks ass.........IMHO. He could look at a carrot and go yes yes.......I'm feeling something here.......the dude and his band of tools are a hose.

Sorry I agree with you, just tried to get a good debate going here, but nobody wanted to byte... ..

Oh !! well, maybe next topic, we will have to save the POP corn as well..



Herman

just one thing, don't let Chip Fooce get hold of your POP corn...

lmao.............yeah sorry, I hate the chop shop series.....as you may well have seen.

slowly busy watching the show as I can....
paint, $2000 a gallon - thats nearly R5000 a liter... wow

and then there was a re-run of an episode of top gear S15E7 I think where they dropped a GP registered beetle from a helicopter (1 mile up) against a race with a porsche.............*sighs*

flatfourfan wrote:and then there was a re-run of an episode of top gear S15E7 I think where they dropped a GP registered beetle from a helicopter (1 mile up) against a race with a porsche.............*sighs*

Saw that . and the beetle won ! Good ! Serves them right for dropping it in the 1st place

I caught the end of it when the beetle was a heap 'o crap and caught a glimpse of the GP plate, God bless PVR.......went back and watched and oi vey'd a lot.

Tony Z wrote:slowly busy watching the show as I can....
paint, $2000 a gallon - thats nearly R5000 a liter... wow

IMMSMR They put 5 times the normal amount of "Pearl" into the paint, on that beetle, but I could not see the difference, did anybody else notice a difference in the pearl. think that was what drove the cost up. can anybody down load a exploded view of the paint job.??

Herman

The cost of the paint on that car simply "does not compute" specially when the owners brief was that he wants a car that he can drive and drive hard , it just doesnt make sense to use such a special paint on a car thats probably gonna get nick and dent here and there Its not that i dont like it or think the car doesnt "deserve" it but as a "drivers car" it just doesnt make sense to me ??

splitfan wrote:The cost of the paint on that car simply "does not compute" specially when the owners brief was that he wants a car that he can drive and drive hard , it just doesnt make sense to use such a special paint on a car thats probably gonna get nick and dent here and there Its not that i dont like it or think the car doesnt "deserve" it but as a "drivers car" it just doesnt make sense to me ??

that said, if the owner doesnt get a lung transplant soon, he is probably going to die soon.... let him enjoy having the best most awesome beetle possible while he has the chance....

Plus lets not forget that the show is not so much a TV documentary but a 1hr advert for Foose.... he is putting money into advertising and getting discovery to pay for it....

as Tony said, if Discovery has an requirement that ex- amount to be spent, then the little they spent on the Bug would insist that the price of the paint would have to go up, where else they going to spend the same amount as they normally blow on a Hemi, with new ruining gear.
Make you think, what you see is not always what you see......

Herman

retrovan wrote:as Tony said, if Discovery has an requirement that ex- amount to be spent, then the little they spent on the Bug would insist that the price of the paint would have to go up, where else they going to spend the same amount as they normally blow on a Hemi, with new ruining gear.
Make you think, what you see is not always what you see......

Herman

......and show you how cheep it is to Overhaul a Beetle...

here's a pic

Thanks for the download, paint does look good...

Herman

It's a tv series and the whole idea behind it is getting such reaction and talk. Personally I don't own a tv thus would naturaly have missed this, but now after reading this, to youtube I go and increase "viewed" count.