V.Cool beetle

smallspeed · Post by **smallspeed** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:44 pm

Spotted this in sainsburies carpark; just looked soooo right in the evening sun I had to share!..

Del · Post by **Del** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:47 pm

KS · Post by KS » Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:25 pm

Nige · Post by **Nige** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:34 pm

Chinchilla Grey? Looks very much like my old 1500

Timo · Post by **Timo** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:23 pm

Lovely, different colour but the stance and wheels reminds me of my old 67

smallspeed · Post by **smallspeed** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:32 pm

I've just shown the picture to a mate of mine from Leicester and he thinks it's a car from just around the corner from him
in enderby.. He thinks it's got a 2.2 engine, and gets drag raced.. The same guy has a black 914..
Anyone from here?!..

MdR · Post by **MdR** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:44 pm

smallspeed wrote:He thinks it's got a 2.2 engine

Lovely looking early big window bug.
Looks like it has a stock peashooter exhaust. Might be a tad restrictive for a 2.2

Timo · Post by **Timo** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:51 pm

Rear end looks kinda low for any hard launches too.

Del · Post by **Del** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:29 pm

KS wrote:

Keith, TLF 25 looks absolutely fantastic on your Beetle!

Matt black70 · Post by **Matt black70** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:38 pm

Great looking Bug.
Nige, I also had a 67 1500, can't believe I sold it, great car

Nige · Post by **Nige** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:50 am

Most of my cars I wish I could've kept, but at least they made way for something as good as. My 1500 was sold in the end to make way for a Karmann Ghia, not so bad!

Mine was actually a 69, but I fitted it out with earlier panels. Was only a 3 owner car and all local to Derby

Roadrunner · Post by **Roadrunner** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:11 am

Love the early cars. I shot this one on the salt at Bonneville last Summer.....

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hot66 · Post by **hot66** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:43 am

Roadrunner wrote:Love the early cars. I shot this one on the salt at Bonneville last Summer.....

www.fluidimages.co.uk

my 2nd favorite VW ever ... a crotch cooler split

My 1st favorite is a sunroof crotch cooler split

I started off with my 1st ever car being a 71 beetle, which I immediately slammed. This was the car I had when I started going out with my now wife

. Then came a 70 beetle which we scrapped, then a 72 beetle for my sister. Following these I saved up & bought my dream, a 62 canterbury pitt split camper ... fantastic vehicle but ended up not using it much. Swapped this for my 1966 Ex German Police Cabrio which was the car I ended up using to create my black monster & ultimately went onto win a fair few awards with it's current owner

I also had a small rear light / twin filament ( Oval era rear lights ) one year only 1961 small window beetle that I loved ... I was going to use this for Historic Rallying but I couldn't find anyone willing to be a navigator

.... this was eventually turned into a hot street / strip car by the next owner. That is one car I wished I had kept

MdR · Post by **MdR** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:01 am

hot66 wrote:my 2nd favorite VW ever ... a crotch cooler split My 1st favorite is a sunroof crotch cooler split

My crotch cooler Split is currently surrounded by a big pile of SC parts. I live in hope that one day it'll see the road.
Fuchs just look so right under those wings, but the earlier banana over-riders look odd to me.

hot66 · Post by **hot66** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:36 am

MdR wrote:
hot66 wrote:my 2nd favorite VW ever ... a crotch cooler split My 1st favorite is a sunroof crotch cooler split

My crotch cooler Split ..... I live in hope that one day it'll see the road.

you were saying that 7 years ago