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Morning all. Having a clear out in the garage and have come across the original fridge from my wife's 1981 Devon Moonraker. It was just in loose when we got it, so I've never tested it - it should run on 12v and on gas. We fitted a portable toilet in its space in the bus,
If anyone wants it, come and get it - it's in Kingswinford, West Midlands. I work in Wolverhampton so I can take it there if necessary, and wife is working in Birmingham Monday and Tuesday next week so can get it there too.
If you want to wait until lock down is over, that's fine, I'll put it to one side - I just don't want to chuck it in the skip!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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There are several videos on YouTube about building garage storage. Some are at head height, some fold down from in between beams, but all seem to be sturdily built and keep things in their place. I'm moving to a new house with a similarly sized garage soon, so I'll be doing much the same.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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I can't believe no-one has suggested putting a V8 in a Jowett yet. Slackers, the lot of ya!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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The one that springs to mind locally to me is the lady who I suspect is the mother/grandmother of a family in my street. See her fairly often in a mint J-plate mk2 Golf GTi 5-door. Red, big bumpers, BBS wheels and really tidy.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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faiz my Ghia had a 1641 with twin 36 Dell's and no heater - much harder to scrape ice off the inside of the screen than in a Beetle! One evening coming back from Ellesmere Port to Chester in the fast lane of the motorway a stone hit the screen and it just exploded! Toughened screen was replaced with a laminated one, but I had to drive to Birmingham with no screen to get it!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Johnny, I will wait and watch with interest! Copper was one thought I'd had, but I liked the idea of nylon being easy to modify if I get more kit, a plasma cutter being top of my list. I told the head at school that next time they're in Aldi cheap, I'd be late into school because I'm getting one on my way in. He told me that it would omly be OK if I picked up one for him too...
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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I used to daily a variety of air-cooled VWs but being honest, I wouldn't any more. My 68 was my transport to and from school when I was 17 (way back in 1995!), I didn't have a car at uni for my first year but got my student loan in 2nd year for a 61. 12v converted but still rubbish lights! Drove it from the Midlands to Yorkshire regularly, and even up to Edinburgh and on to Fife in the middle of winter. When that got written off I used a beach buggy, then got my Ghia which I daily drove for my placement year at Vauxhall Ellesmere Port, driving there and back from Chester every day. Took it back to uni for final year, used a 70 bay window for a year until that got written off too. Ghia was pressed back into service then when I moved to Loughborough for my teacher training, driving up to Derby for first placement and Lutterworth for 2nd. Dailied an air-cooled 81 T25 to school for first job, then a nice 70 Beetle. After about 2004 the novelty had well and truly worn off and I got a mk3 golf. It can be done, but I'd rather have a boring daily and use the Beetle for evening and weekend fun drives.
Worst thing about driving them every day is the increased chance of what I had twice - a write off accident, and you do get pressed by other motorists who just want to get in front of the funny old car. In the summer I drive my Beetle to work once a week or so, but only if the weather is nice and I'm in the right mood for it.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Some good information here. I'm about to start an installation in my classroom as we've just obtained a Sealey sandblasting cabinet and I've spent the last couple of weeks between lessons benching out the one side of the room. I've got a couple of big compressors plumbed together in a cupboard in the next room (done before I started) that feed the tyre machine in my room via a rubber pipe going through a hole in the wall.
What I want to do is put a condensation loop in, then tee off this pipe so one side goes to the tyre machine and the other side goes down the wall to another tee to the sand blaster and on to the retractable reel that would be used for the impact gun, chisel, punch/joggler etc.
As recommended above, I'm planning on nylon pipe but wondering on size. Will 15mm be OK or do I need bigger? As for water traps and drain offs,am I right in thinking I need a tap at the bottom of the loop and traps at the tyre machine, sand blaster and reel?
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Yeah part of me says it would look better but part of me says it's gonna screw with peoples heads on a modern plate........ I'd be torn on if I should or shouldn't!!!! Biggest part of the reasoning for doing so is I want a 5 digit plate, as you can display a 5 digit registration on an import size plate on one line with legal lettering and spacing. Having US size plates and surrounds are a big part of a truck like this looking ‘right’. At Shakespeare County Raceway a couple of years ago, I saw a 1940 Ford truck on a 1987 E registration. It was built onto a Mazda chassis if I remember right, but the plates just looked odd. If they'd been black and silver, or even States plates, they'd have looked more right!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Happy birthday Tom! Now, what's the next project?
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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It does look like "everything in its place and a place for everything", but in the smallest possible area!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Apr 24, 2020 16:42:26 GMT
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GP LDV I know it’s a bit of a stretch because at best you’d call it a pickup, but GP called it a van I had one of those. Q113RCA if I remember correctly, yellow when I bought it and purple when I swapped it for my Karmann Ghia. GP did do a more van like version, which I think was called the Ranchero.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Those wheels and tyres are awesome. I love that the back ones look wider than they are tall. I think I see a set of those on my lads Buddy L firetruck in the near future!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Apr 23, 2020 19:53:01 GMT
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Should be easier to find dropped bolts and stuff though - they just blend into grey...
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Apr 23, 2020 19:25:28 GMT
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The answer to "why?" is surely just "why not?"!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Apr 23, 2020 19:00:29 GMT
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Time for an update I think! Been a while since I updated, and not a great deal has happened to the Beetle because we've been concentrating on coursework, then I had an enforced fortnight off, and now I'm working roughly 50% of my hours so nothing seems to move on quickly...
What I have been able to do is get organising in the workshop! It's so nice to have more than an hour and a half at a time to get things out and move them around without having to worry about the next lesson happening before I'm done. Poxy phone won't load pictures, but this week's little project is a new work area, with about 4.5m of bench, a decent size sandblasting cabinet and the planer/thicknesser and table saw moved back into the Technology room! Last week I moved and cleared a load more space over the other side of the room and created a dedicated area for the parts washer and binned a load of stuff that had been left by the previous teacher, smashed up a broken cabinet that had found its way in and generally rationalised. Tomorrow and next week will be hopefully getting the blasting cabinet to work once I've hard piped the air supply in - I'm going to tee off the supply to the tyre machine. That should do it!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Apr 22, 2020 16:25:16 GMT
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Yep, new roof cut would be easier - we scrapped an '86 due to the same sort of roof damage. Looks like that was a factory sunroof roof pressing though.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Apr 22, 2020 16:21:53 GMT
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That'd be great Matt. Photobucket really screwed a lot of build threads all over the Internet, so I appreciate you taking the time to create a slideshow.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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A few years ago when we had our T4 camper I nearly built a carport on the side of my house. Good job I didn't as our high top T25 that replaced the T4 wouldn't have fitted! We have to take it to a certain MOT station because it won't fit in through the roller shutter of the one closest to home...
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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I'd still got the 1968 Beetle that I got at 17,but as I was going off to uni and my brother was by then driving, he took over with that. I got my student loan and bought a 1961 Beetle, then it was written off within a couple of months so I went back to the beach buggy (GP LDV for anyone who's interested) that I'd bought the previous summer for the rest of the term. Then at the start of the summer I got my Karmann Ghia in a trade for the buggy, and got it on the road just before I turned 21. Eventful year!
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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