1971 VW Beetle - quite low

Sweet!

Thanks folks.

The colour is Norfolk Green. It's rollered on marine paint. Looks ok for a 10 yarder.

Suspension set up is 2 outer spline out back (that's the simple bit).
Up front it's a home made 4 inch narrowed beam, CB Performance dropped spindles, eccentric camber adjusting nuts, anit-bump steer bushes and Armstrong air shocks rigged up to retro (basic!) air management.















Plan is to extend the shock towers to get the front down that last inch.

Love it mate, always have!

Retro-Air, Awesome

great pics,nearly same colour as my mk3 breadvan

Thanks peeps!

It wasn't always tastefully modded. It went from this (far worse than it looks):



to this:



to this:



and this:



through a lot of this all round (floor is only propped in too in these pics):

props mate.

nice to see all the info gleaned in those msn convos went somewhere

nice to see it un-wrong'un-ed too, its been round the houses a bit this one!

Dez, I think I bought that fat body trim off you years ago.

I've done tonnes of work to this car over the years. Only really brushing the surface with these photos. It's still a shitter now though! lol

Learned a lot from it. Could probably have done a full proper resto on it a few times over with what I know now.

The air on it is pretty slow. I only really use it for getting over an ironwork leading up to my garage and once for getting on a recovery truck (my bad). In fact, it was lower before I fitted the air but I need to extend the shock towers to get the most out of it. Then it'll be going back down to this:



Check out my "ICE" too:

Lot of work gone into this, love the almost standard look. Recent pics look amazing....good skills.

Thanks guys. Really appreciate all the kind words.

I keep thinking I'll sell it and then I change my mind. I seem to repeat this process about 4 times a year!