Bill Building A Better Beetle

The 72 STD Beetle in work and what I have done to it so far

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1972 STD Beetle
Made in Germany
VIN#
Date of birth: Febuary of 1972
Year of rebuild start: 2000
Year of finished custom resto:
 

You might say what have you done with it since you bought it in the year 2000? Well it all started when Got my brand new 2000 Grand Prix GTP and I was driving back and forth to norfolk for work. I thought that I might be putting too many miles on my GP so I would buy a beater to run into the ground instead of the GP. I found this car in the local news paper and I bought it for $1,100.00. I brought it home and of course I always wanted one to begin with. Lets just say that I didn't drive it all that much! I really had no clue on how to maintain this car and I killed the engine when I removed some of the engine tin. I went shopping on the internet for a welder and got a nice one from sears for $230.00, it is a180amp MIG gas hook up welder. Ever since then I have been doing things to the car here and there. Well, here is the short list of things that have been fixed on the car or modified:
1, New Frame Head
2, New floor pans
3, Rebuilt engine 3x's
          - 90.5 P&C 69mm crank= 1776cu
          - 044 heads
          - Altenator
          - Compufire ignition
          - Duel Kads
          - 110 Cam
          - Performance exhaust
4, Front disk brakes
5, Rebuilt "I" Beam
6, New master cylinder, brake lines and wheel cylinders
7, Repaired all Corrosion holes man made or other LOL.
8, Custom oval slot polished alunimum rims with 265-50-15 rear 215-60-14 front tire sizes
9, Repllaced the 72 gas tank with a 1966, wanted to open the trunk to put gas instead of the side access.
10, New shocks
11, New tie rods
12, Removed all chrome trim and filled in holes, going for the CAL look.
13, 3" wider fenders for the rear from www.aircooled.net
14, 2.5" wider fenders for the front from www.aircooled.net
15, Removed gas tank fill up access. filled in with new metal.
16, Made rear apron removable.
17. Replaced front apron. Complete

The new brakes & shocks
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This is the new 1776 four banger
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Still waiting on Alt but I have it now.

This is the pan waiting outside to be worked on.
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Fiber glass fenders waiting to be installed

This was the problem area, all better now
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Look at that nasty hole!!!

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