going the 'other' way

interesting your comments Tim, regarding going from air cooled to something like your good ladies truck, but me i'm going the other way from my 52' chevy truck to a humble Beetle, i sold the truck in the summer and business is tough (sign maker) so although i really want a 'A' coupe it aint gonna happen, so i have just bought my sons 'sorn' for two years Beetle, its gonna get a subtle 2'' chop, stock wings, steels (stud pattern is 5 stud jag/chevy), stripped out interior, everything painted satin grey inside and out, oh and a quick motor, this will do me on a budget untill work picks up.............

Should be an interesting project, i like it on those wheels, something you dont see often

Yeah they're kool, are they cragars? They look very similar to supremes often seen on kustoms with those white bands

yeah there Cragars, Kanes whole plan with this car is that it had have cragar five spokers, offsets being a nightmare hence the oversize wings, i think this is the only fully fendered bug i've seen with the cragars, Gonzo had them but that was fenderless as you know, as for Astro Supremes my favourite wheel..

just love Astros, my old 53' at Goodwood for the Euro Nats about 8-10 years ago

very nice mate, that one weren't in the other post with your other cars!! My ol' man wants to do someting 53 purely becasue thats his birth year.

smiffys_chop_shop wrote:

very nice mate, that one weren't in the other post with your other cars!! My ol' man wants to do someting 53 purely becasue thats his birth year.

theres still a few more bud, 53 was nice but 54' bel air was nicer just never had the money to finish it, just love that 54 in for sale in Custom Car on bags ....

Is that the blue and white/cream one for about 14k? im sure thats the one classic american ran a feature on with the couple who own it getting married in vegas not so long ago.

smiffys_chop_shop wrote:

Is that the blue and white/cream one for about 14k? im sure thats the one classic american ran a feature on with the couple who own it getting married in vegas not so long ago.

thats the one, so nice!

Who's doing the chop on the bug, are you goinbg to tackle it?

Tim wrote:

Who's doing the chop on the bug, are you goinbg to tackle it?

i'm doing the cutting and Merv Barnett the welding trouble is he's in Egypt at the moment, stock rear wings now on (oversize ones for sale) Cragars sold, but slow progress busy on my youngest's Harleys T4.....My T5 should be back this week after air bagging, will be in the outside display on the saturday at Volksworld if your around...........

kustomkulture wrote:

Tim wrote:

Who's doing the chop on the bug, are you goinbg to tackle it?

i'm doing the cutting and Merv Barnett the welding trouble is he's in Egypt at the moment, stock rear wings now on (oversize ones for sale) Cragars sold, but slow progress busy on my youngest's Harleys T4.....My T5 should be back this week after air bagging, will be in the outside display on the saturday at Volksworld if your around...........

in Egypt, how selfish

oh i liked the cragars, what's going on it?

I'll be at Volksworld but trading, if it's anything like previous years i'll have about 10 mins all weekend to walk about. i'd like to see it though.

steels, hubcaps and beauty rings, unless i can find some bolt on spindle mount 12 spokers with wide whites........

just got hold of a couple of Volvo Amozon dash panels (to make one good one out of the two)........kool dash

kustomkulture wrote:

steels, hubcaps and beauty rings, unless i can find some bolt on spindle mount 12 spokers with wide whites........

just got hold of a couple of Volvo Amozon dash panels (to make one good one out of the two)........kool dash

Those Amazon speedos are the strip type right? that will be different, i'm interested to see how that turns out.

I've never seen inside them thats nice i like it, if it didn't have a volvo badge i couldn't have guessed what it was from!