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Post by Attorney Isaiah Loophole Fri Jul 17, 2015 12:26 am

I did some trading with Joel and picked this car up.  I have always liked it even before it had the rag grafted in.  Anyway I have already started making a few changes.  First the adjustable plates came off and a set of 4" drop plates went on.  Then on to the front which I am still working on.  I am painting and building a set of drop spindles for the car so I can gain some suspension back.  Hope to have them on this weekend.  I also wanted to run some kind of black and polished/silver wheels.  I was going to go with steel sprint stars but ended up changing my mind last minute.  Next will be an interior overhaul and then some body work and fresh gulf blue paint

Basically how I got it from Joel....

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My boy, Colby!

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New wheels!

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Post by zabo Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:03 am

Attorney Isaiah Loophole wrote:
My boy, Colby!

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nice man!!
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Post by Attorney Isaiah Loophole Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:28 am

zabo wrote:nice man!!

Thanks!
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Post by Attorney Isaiah Loophole Fri Jul 17, 2015 2:59 pm

New all metal parcel tray from Shorty's Customs!

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Post by Attorney Isaiah Loophole Fri Jul 17, 2015 3:43 pm

Found some old pictures of Old Blue before the ragtop graft and then a couple after it was installed.  All the pictures are from 2008.

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Post by Dake Sat Jul 18, 2015 9:39 am

Man that a great looking car. Congrats on the new Baby!
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Post by Attorney Isaiah Loophole Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:23 am

Dake wrote:Man that a great looking car. Congrats on the new Baby!

Thanks!
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Post by pwmcguire Sat Jul 18, 2015 5:42 pm

Congratulations on the new baby and his first VW.
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Post by Attorney Isaiah Loophole Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:30 pm

pwmcguire wrote:Congratulations on the new baby and his first VW.

Thanks Pat!

Today I got the carriers cleaned, blasted, and painted along with the drop spindles. Installed new king pins and link pins and got them on the car. I need to do a little work on the bottom adjuster as it is bent pretty good so the car won't raise back up to where it was before I installed the spindles. I think its sitting about an inch lower now with no one in the car. I may have to pull the beam and put in a new adjuster.....

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Post by drvr8 Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:49 pm

Looks good buddy... you're making good progress... does make me a little sad... but I know that he has a good home... and I got an awesome car and a great bus outta the deal!
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Post by Attorney Isaiah Loophole Sun Jul 19, 2015 5:20 pm

Since the car is a 61 it doesn't have a gas gauge and should have a reserve lever.  It came with a fuel lever extension but no lever and after looking under the 62 and later tank I saw that it had no reserve petcock.  So today I pulled the gas tank and removed the 62 and later fuel outlet and installed a reserve petcock and lever.  I also removed the fuel gauge block off and installed a 68 and later electric sending unit for when I put in the 68 speedometer.  The car came with a fuel lever extension so I put it on as well.  Then I started pulling the front seats and the rubber mats and did some vacuuming.  Then I installed new front and rear black rubbers mats.  

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Post by drvr8 Sun Jul 19, 2015 5:30 pm

Looking good buddy!
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Post by Attorney Isaiah Loophole Sun Jul 19, 2015 5:31 pm

drvr8 wrote:Looking good buddy!
Thanks dude!
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Post by Attorney Isaiah Loophole Mon Jul 20, 2015 4:52 pm

Decided to go ahead and clean up the 68 speedometer I had in the garage.  I had to pull apart a second speedometer to get a good clean glass.  While apart I cleaned the glass, outer chrome, inner ring and housing  I also cleaned off the old grease and lubed all the gears.  Before putting it back together I zeroed out the odometer.  I didn't have anything to use for gel material so I just left them blank.   I did replace the old metal fuel gauge vibrator with a plastic encased one.  I should have taken a before picture but I didn't.

After cleanup

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Installed and gas gauge working!

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Post by BKiller Mon Jul 20, 2015 9:24 pm

Looks great Bryce.
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Post by pwmcguire Mon Jul 20, 2015 9:32 pm

Colored file folder tabs sanded with 1000 grit sandpaper works great, put the shiny side out.

Attorney Isaiah Loophole wrote:Decided to go ahead and clean up the 68 speedometer I had in the garage.  I had to pull apart a second speedometer to get a good clean glass.  While apart I cleaned the glass, outer chrome, inner ring and housing  I also cleaned off the old grease and lubed all the gears.  Before putting it back together I zeroed out the odometer.  I didn't have anything to use for gel material so I just left them blank.   I did replace the old metal fuel gauge vibrator with a plastic encased one.  I should have taken a before picture but I didn't.

After cleanup

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Installed and gas gauge working!

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Post by Attorney Isaiah Loophole Tue Jul 21, 2015 1:04 am

pwmcguire wrote:Colored file folder tabs sanded with 1000 grit sandpaper works great, put the shiny side out.

Yeah I had read that on the samba but I couldn't find any here at the house. Did you double yours up too?
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Post by panic_fan Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:17 pm

Very nice. Awesome pic of the newbie. Smile
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Post by fluxcap Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:48 pm

I double them up when using the file tabs. Looks great man, you must be a wizard to get that fuel gauge working. That dang thing gave me so many problems when I tried that set-up, lol.
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Post by pwmcguire Tue Jul 21, 2015 10:24 pm

Attorney Isaiah Loophole wrote:
pwmcguire wrote:Colored file folder tabs sanded with 1000 grit sandpaper works great, put the shiny side out.

Yeah I had read that on the samba but I couldn't find any here at the house.  Did you double yours up too?

No, single layer, green and red work great. Blue sucks, If you need blue for the high beam on a 70's speedometer
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Post by Attorney Isaiah Loophole Tue Jul 21, 2015 11:36 pm

fluxcap wrote: Looks great man, you must be a wizard to get that fuel gauge working. That dang thing gave me so many problems when I tried that set-up, lol.

We will see how long it works. Good used gauge, new vibrator and new sending unit....

pwmcguire wrote:No, single layer, green and red work great. Blue sucks, If you need blue for the high beam on a 70's speedometer

Sounds good! My blue is actually in pretty good shape.
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Post by Attorney Isaiah Loophole Wed Sep 02, 2015 3:59 pm

Downtown Griffin

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Post by vw57drvr Wed Sep 02, 2015 4:25 pm

Im pretty partial to those wheels. Looks good.
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Post by Attorney Isaiah Loophole Wed Sep 02, 2015 4:41 pm

vw57drvr wrote:Im pretty partial to those wheels. Looks good.

Yeah I have always liked them even before they repopped them. I had narrowed my wheels choices down to either steel sprint stars or cosmics. I loved how they look on your car but I was still leaning towards the sprints but they were out of stock. I couldn't get an answer to how long they were going to be out of stock so the decision was easy!
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Post by vw57drvr Thu Sep 03, 2015 4:16 pm

The offset if really good on these. Keeps the wheels tucked further than a BRM for example.
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