Posting a picture of my '57 Ragtop

Thought I'd try and post a picture of my Oval window Ragtop Bug

Nice.

looks awesome dude, I wish mine was all clean n' glossy...

Very nice indeed. Is this a current pic? How long till the glass is back in and hitting the street?

very nice I like it.

why is it four lug

Looks great! Are you putting vent windows back in or going with one-piece windows?

fearthefat138 wrote:why is it four lug

Only four holes in the rims.

71_georgia_beetle wrote:

fearthefat138 wrote:why is it four lug

Only four holes in the rims.

why do you post such stupid comments

sweet ride

Looking good!! You need to hurry up and finish it. Then you won't have to tow it to Starbucks the next time........

Its four lug because it is on a later pan. It was more common to do that conversion in the 80's - early 90's. That way you get the styling of the older bug without the crappy ride!!

DiggerD wrote:Looking good!! You need to hurry up and finish it. Then you won't have to tow it to Starbucks the next time........

Its four lug because it is on a later pan. It was more common to do that conversion in the 80's - early 90's. That way you get the styling of the older bug without the crappy ride!!

thank you thats what i wanted to know.

DiggerD wrote:
Its four lug because it is on a later pan. It was more common to do that conversion in the 80's - early 90's. That way you get the styling of the older bug without the crappy ride!!

Gearing yes but ride that is debatable....

Thanks, everyone, it's 4 lug because it's on a '68 pan. Going from a '57 pan to a '68 pan allowed me to go to a synchronized transaxle, dual circuit master cylinder, Ghia discs with drop spindles, and Type 3 rear brakes. Also picked up a steering damper, the '57's didn't come with one. The Bug has an 1850 motor, Transform freeway flier transaxle, and a camber compensator with KYB gas shocks all the way around so it rides and handles and stops.

I'm building an Old School California Look Bug, dechromed, one piece windows, solid color paint, and euro blade bumpers. It's got real 2.0 litre Porsche alloys that have ben chromed running real Michelin 135's in front and real Michelin 165's in the rear.

What's holding me up is that I need to get the ragtop headliner installed before I can pull all the glass back in, and then tend to a few mechanical isues (like geting my 40 Delloroto's rebuilt and getting an A-1 sidewinder exhaust). But I may throw my attention towards my '67 Bug, it's been off the road since 1995.

fearthefat138 wrote:

71_georgia_beetle wrote:

fearthefat138 wrote:why is it four lug

Only four holes in the rims.

Dude, I just love your awesome comments

Seemed like a straight forward answer to me.

And, for some reason 4 bolts hold on each wheel

Here's another picture with the parking lights on





Actually, I posted a bunch of pictures on my photobucket account, check out the latest pictures here:

http://photobucket.com/Grifspop

I like the smoothed hood with the crest. Haven't seen that before.

Thanks, when I was dechroming the hood I came down to the Wolfsburg crest, pulled it out of the trim bezel that starts the vertical trim on the hood, made a gasket for it and stuck it back on. VW quit using the crest in the early 60's, but I thought it added the right jewelry to the front of the car.

Did anyone notice the bumper over rider holes are gone? I'm going to run the euro blade bumpers, and I welded plates in to the upper bumper bracket holes to get rid of them too.

I cant wait to see it!

Very nice ride. Very clean but not boring OEM, good mix.

It was such a nice day that I took a quick video of my Oval Ragtop and stuck it on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSTvnmj8rQ0

Got my '57 Georgia tag registered to the car today, now it's legal

good looking car nice job