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Re: Newbie from Holland: Black Betty is in da house...

Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:07 pm
by kvinyl
That's stunning, loving every bit of that.

Are they Karmann Konnection seats or did you source them somewhere else?

Re: Newbie from Holland: Black Betty is in da house...

Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:38 pm
by Black Betty
Yes...

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(original 356A Speedster steel seats)

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Re: Newbie from Holland: Black Betty is in da house...

Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:21 pm
by Le Samourai
Been following your build on and off for a couple of years on the spyder forums, amazing.

Re: Newbie from Holland: Black Betty is in da house...

Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 5:44 pm
by kvinyl
Black Betty wrote:Yes...

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(original 356A Speedster steel seats)

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very nice indeed, tempted myself :bounce:

Re: Newbie from Holland: Black Betty is in da house...

Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 8:43 pm
by Nine One One
More info here, where it's posted on 'The Samba' as well

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewto ... sc&start=0

Ian

Re: Newbie from Holland: Black Betty is in da house...

Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 9:56 pm
by jamie
Hard. Core.

Love it!

Re: Newbie from Holland: Black Betty is in da house...

Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 10:59 pm
by Black Betty
Spotted while blasting along...
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Re: Newbie from Holland: Black Betty is in da house...

Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 10:28 am
by Black Betty
I visited a Classic Car Show here in the Netherlands. I didn't register, but I just went on haphazzard. I was allowed onto the showground and I even got a nice parking spot in the middle of the showground.

All registered cars had a sign with a (registration)number on it provided by the organisation of the event/show, but mine -obviously- hadn't.

All cars on the showground were inspected, examined and scrutinized by a jury and show visitors were asked to vote for their favourite car...

Because my car had no registration number they put number 67 on the voting and examination form, because that number is all over my car of course... :lol:

At the end of the show -when everybody was preparing to go home- the jury announced the winners in the different categories and I won first prize in the category 'best in show European Classic'... :lol: :lol: :lol:

I even got a nice goblet with an inscription!
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Re: Newbie from Holland: Black Betty is in da house...

Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 10:47 am
by Gary71
Excellent! :)

Re: Newbie from Holland: Black Betty is in da house...

Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 10:49 am
by Bootsy
Well done - it is an uber cool car.

Re: Newbie from Holland: Black Betty is in da house...

Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 5:27 pm
by 911SE
Great intro. Great car Welcome!

Re: Newbie from Holland: Black Betty is in da house...

Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 10:07 am
by Black Betty
My gear lever knob (is that how it is called? :? ) was made of a stainless steel door knob :lol:

Rod from Emory Motorsports has sent me one of his (limited edition) Outlaw gear lever knobs. Those are billet aluminium and are of superb quality and I decided to replace my stainless steel door knob by this nice Outlaw gear lever knob...

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I like it! :)

Re: Newbie from Holland: Black Betty is in da house...

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 6:04 pm
by Black Betty
Today it felt like spring outside! A perfect day to do some work on the car! 8)

I've changed the wheels and now I have 145R15 Firestone tyres on the front en 165R15 Firestones on the back. The front wheels/tyres are now appr. 1" lower than the rear which means the car tilts forward just a little bit. It looks great, I think...

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And then I put on the bigger mesh head light grills...

There's a huge difference (not only in size) between both kind of grills:

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And they fit!
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On the dash I've put a nice little emblem that says it all:

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Re: Newbie from Holland: Black Betty is in da house...

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:07 am
by Black Betty
Notice the difference?


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Is bigger better?

It is in my opinion...

Re: Newbie from Holland: Black Betty is in da house...

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:46 am
by Bootsy
Yes, bigger is better in this case!