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Abandoned repair shop

Hi.
1957 6v 1200 cc 30bhp type one beetle
The steering was reconstructed
Now this happens and makes driving a hell

So, I've been slow to get around to it, but finally printed out my first draft of a door trim piece for my 65 squareback as they are largely unobtainable and I'm missing ~half of the plastic trim pieces. I need to do a little fine tuning (increase wall thickness, increase clearance for the Lego nubs between pieces, and double check my hole spacing as a couple pieces spread out a little when I clipped them all in). Overall I'm happy with the progress and I think they'll turn out well. Planning to wrap the final result in black vinyl.

2023 Northwest Bug Run in Oregon

Our two and only one more beetle in attendance 🤷🏻

Finally getting a start on the Oval, body I off the chassis and heading to soda blasting in the morning! Chassis is surprisingly solid although someone replaced the panel under the battery at some point, but that’s okay!

Loved tearing this down and rebuilding with my kids. Then taught them to drive it, way before they had theirs licenses. Kinds cool to have kids that can drive stick when a lot of adults don’t even know how to nowadays.

Picked this up on Facebook. I’ll probably use it as a core to build a 1776 or 2110 out of. There’s a lot of crank walk that I think is the bearing moving though so it may be a junk engine. Engine tear down will answer that eventually.

I’m looking at two Ghias, one with a restored interior and body with a stock 1600 engine and the other with a good interior and good body with a 1745 mileage master. I plan to use it as a daily driver more or less 6 to 8 months a year. Both are about the same price

we are in a small town so I can view daily is less than 10 miles round-trip.

The ghia with the restored body has some rust that I think was bondoed over during the restoration. I have a photo of it before restore. Can anyone tell me how bad this is?

He’s alive and running strong, couldn’t be happier, need a stronger spring for my carb but damn it feels good to hear him fire right up🤘