'59 Beetle

dsan · Post by **dsan** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:03 pm

Finally got a project car that will work. Picked up this original 59 (registered 01/01/59) and spent it's entire life in the freestate until 2 years ago, when it was purchased and left in the garage under wraps. I have never seen a car with zero rust on, so this one made my day.

now I only need to work out what the hell the previous owner did with the lights to not make them work (all other electrics work fine after the 12v conversion), but she runs like a beaut

Full restoration will take place in March.

Post by **Bugger** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:09 pm

What a Beauty to start with

What are your intencions with her

Merlin · Post by **Merlin** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:28 pm

What a find!

Play Stock Nazi with that or fear the wrath of the greater VW community.

Does it really need resto'? Really?

N.

flatfourfan · Post by **flatfourfan** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:45 am

I'm with Nic on this one................why not just give it a good detailing?

dsan · Post by **dsan** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:25 am

Nothing will be changed, just stripped, cleaned and made original again. At some point the idiot cut a f**king radio hole in the dash and did one hell of a crude job, so that will need to be sorted. Also the semaphores aren't working, which will be number 1 priority.

Since it's 50th bday is coming up soon, i'd like to bring the car back to what it was in 59. Don't worry, this car will be kept original, I have 50 000 to spend on doing it, so it should be back to normal when i'm done

Blitzkrieg · Post by **Blitzkrieg** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:17 am

What a find

I really like your car, all the best with the work

dsan · Post by **dsan** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:53 pm

On a side note, i'd love to hear from everyone where they think the best place is to get spares. Luckily I fly all over, so i'm constantly in the UK or NYC but would prefer someone local.

Also, keeping with it being a usable classic, anyone have any recommendations on brighter headlamps (kept inside the classic casing)

ta

Post by **Tony Z** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:21 pm

golf 1 head lamp lenses fit.

dsan · Post by **dsan** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:38 am

Decided on setting up a blog to keep the progress reports going:

http://1959beetle.blogspot.com/

Post by **Bugger** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 1:41 pm

dsan wrote:On a side note, i'd love to hear from everyone where they think the best place is to get spares. Luckily I fly all over, so i'm constantly in the UK or NYC but would prefer someone local.

Also, keeping with it being a usable classic, anyone have any recommendations on brighter headlamps (kept inside the classic casing)

ta

Well most of the spares that you will find here will be coming from abroad so on your travels get the spares deliverd at a piont where you can pick them up and bring them back with you
And sssssssss(you will save on the import thing) aswell

But by looking at your bug most can be refurbed and re chromed the back bumpers do not even looks damaged

dsan · Post by **dsan** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:22 pm

Spending the christmas period browsing, i worked that one out. The main site which seems like one hell of a site is http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/ so orders will be shipped to my address in the uk and i'll grab them from there.

I like that they sell http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/cart/Detai ... 111953021E

dsan · Post by **dsan** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:00 pm

Finally shot some images, they can be found at http://1959beetle.blogspot.com/2007/12/ ... mages.html

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