Category: General

  • Finding Mabel, Our 1968 Beetle

    So, in our quest to find a regular Beetle, our week started last Friday with a viewing of 3 Beetles in our local area, all within 40 miles of each other. The first one, a 1970 Beetle, the owner was asking $7995 for it. The guy had too much sentimental value on the car. It…

  • Last Of The Tins

    The industrial shields arrived today for AwesomePowdercoating. Hopefully the weather will be nice enough to work in the garage and put the remaining tins on the engine.

  • New Sled Tins

    Got the new sled tins in from Chircoestore.com today. Props to Joe at Chrico! I ordered these off of Ebay on morning and later that night, I realized that I had ordered chrome tins instead of black. Dropped Joe an email and explained what happened and he replaced them before they were shipped out. Exactly…

  • 99.9% Done

    I guess it’s safe to say that the engine is about 99.9% complete now. I need to finish the carb rebuild, add the sled tins and hose from the breather to the oil filler and that’ll be that. Three and a half months of cold weekend nights in the garage, watching Breaking Bad (for the…

  • Little Here, Little There

    Had some time this evening to start making new wires for the engine compartment. A much lesser task that it’s going to be when I have to replace the wiring harness, but at least it’s a start. Also got the oil cooler tins that I ordered from JBugs in the mail today. They’ll be installed…