Showing posts with label VW bug. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VW bug. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Christie is blogging about her 74 VW bug, and making it a good reliable driver again (some past owner put in house carpet, and painted it purple)

 Before and after photos to let you knwo what she had to deal with, but read about it, its another amusing story of what idiots do to cars before us car lovers give them a good home
http://abeetleslife.blogspot.com/

Christie, who has a really cool profile photo, is in university, and dealing with making a blog, fixing a car, and getting good grades... that is a lot to put together at once! My compliments!

 if you're reading, you ought to put your email somewhere in your profile or your blog so people car respond to your requests for advice and help.

Post a good series of photos from all the way around Arty so we can get a good look at how nice he's turned out too! 

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Ever heard of a Hebmuller VW? I just learned of it. VW ordered a coachbuilder to make 2000 of them. Good looking!

At the request of Volkswagen Managing Director Heinz Nordhoff,  Hebmüller and Karmann would build cabriolets for Volkswagen, with as many Type 1 parts, such as chassis, engine, and body panels, as possible. Hebmüller was to build the 2+2 cabriolet, and Karmann the four-seat cabriolet. By contrast with the Karmann, the Heb was intended as a sporting model.

this 1951 example has had it's history tracked, and it's story is kinda interesting... it was once traded for a International Harvester dump truck! Full story at http://www.tomstrongman.com/ClassicCars/Hebmuller/Gallerytemp.htm

Of the 700 built before a factory fire, about only 100 still exist