Bravo!!!!!! Excellent job. I hope to acquire a 73 military trekker here real soon and do the same justice to it. Thanks for sharing your resto adventure.
Amigo muchas felicidades lo mejor es el trabajo y la paciencia q tu le pusiste a tu coche y q te involucraste de lleno en esa restauración, yo no sé nada de mecánica pero ya empecé con la restauración del mío.
DESDE LO QUE QUEDA DE ARGENTINA EN PODER DEL SIONISMO KHAZARO, TE ENVIO UN FUERTE ABRAZO Y FELICITACIONES POR TU NOBLE TARABAJO. HAS RECUPERADO PARA TU PAIS UN ENORME PEDAZO DE LA ORGULLOSA HISTORIA DE TU PUEBLO. FELICITACIONES.
Put the head lights up on pedestals, slope the trunk more also recess the trunk lid to mount the tire there . I think that it would be way cool that way ! Just a thought and I bet many people thought the same way
@willemstockton I had the welding and olive drab paint work done by professionals. That cost about 4000 Euros. The rest I did myself. My total restoration costs came to over 6000 Euros. Keeping track of my hours was too much a pain, so I stopped writing them down. I spent a year on the project, just workig nights and weekends.
Very beautiful restoration but it is a Jagdwagen and not a Kübelwagen. Really great work! I drove this car in the Austrian Army and we had this car in the UN 🇺🇳 on Cyprus Island till 1990. Greetings from Linz/Austria 🇦🇹🏔⛷🛶🍺🥨😎👍 Europe!
awesome... and beautiful....engine is quite different from my bug...distributor...coil...exhaust....oil pressure switch......wish i had a car like this one....Congratulations!! on a job well done.... keep on driving and caring
@Arfke - The top is a genuine VW top. The top was NOS when I bought the car about 14 years ago. It fits so tight, that I can barely close the top alone. Its easier in the summer when its warm. I really take care of my top. I store the car in a garage, and roll up the top CORRECTLY when I put it down. And I never put the top down and roll it together, unless its clean.
Vielen Dank! Ganz so perfekt ist er auch nicht, aber ich habe meine Bestes gegeben. Irgendwann geht halt das Geld zu Ende, aber das Projekt ist besser geworden als ich jemals geplant habe. Ich habe mal Lust wieder ein VW zu restorieren! Irgendwann wird mir was über den Weg laufen!!!
@MrZeikstraal Thank you for the compliments. Yes, I am also happy that I could keep 1 old VW on the road for many many more years. I hope someday I have the time and money to rescue one or two more. I am uploading another video from the restoration right now. You should be able to watch it later tonight or tomorrow.
Have three 181 in the barn....one is a survivor, no restoration needed, one is a basket case and one is a shell, in green. That one was slated to be converted to a Kubel, but we never got to it....maybe someday
Siempre he dicho el que Restaura, respeta los valores, sus familiares, sus ancestros tremendo trabajo, me acuerdo de mi tí Francisco me dió mi primer paseo a la edad de 5 años en su Safari Rojo. Cabe mencionar las variantes del nombre= (Include variants of the name) Germany = Kübelwagen (Original) USA = The Thing México + all Latin American = Safari UK = Trekker Amazing
@DecaPierce Actually, Kuebelwagen was the term used in WWII to describe all bucket cars, or cars that had deep "bucket" seats to compensate for their often occurring lack of doors.
@Jeansschwimmer You should read up somemore about 181s. Of course they were used in the German military, and the Swiss, and the Belgien and probably some others. By the thousands. Mine was in military service until 1992. The 181s made for civilian use are the trully rare ones in Europe.
great job. if you had to estimate what would you say your time in man hours was and the cost (in tools, parts, supplies, out-sourceing for like the paint and powder coating etc) was?
Hi KPM, beautiful work. I also have a 1974 Thing (US Version). I'm most interested in finding out about the three point harness seat belt you installed for your children. Can you elaborate on what you did?
Thanks Michael. I bought the three point harness from a German website. I only have one mounted on the right rear seat. The lower two points are attached to the original lap-belt fixation points. For the 3rd point (the over-the-shoulder strap), I drilled a hole in the car`s rear luggage shelf. A large bolt goes through the seatbelt bracket, then through the luggage shelf metal. From the engine bay, this bolt screws into a thick plate with a nut welded to it (also available from the website). This design is in no way tested, nor comparable to a factory fixation point, but I feel it a little better than a lap belt only.
I had it almost verything restored to original look and equipment including Acapulco canopy top. Almost ready to paint and swap to never driven Show Car status when I had to sell to keep my ex wife's crappy 05 Mustang from getting repossed (also as she hated the Thing she had threatened divorce) had I known we would get divorced soon anyway and a mere year later the Stang would meet with repossesion anyways I would have allowed nature to take its course sooner and still have my favorite Vw ever
I am curious as to why you chose to change out the mil spec distributor for a civilian non-tactical version. you seemed so very careful to restore to original specs that this seemed such an anomaly. my guess was that it was for ease in acquiring replacement leads. the military screw on leads would be harder to find as would the mil-spec plugs. but all in all a very nice restoration.
I did use the military distributor. What made you think I didn't? The parts are getting hard to come by, but so far I had no problems with the military distributor. The only thing I did was use new, non-military spark-plug wires. New military ones were terribly expensive, so I bought standard ones, cut off the plug at the distributor end, and pushed the bare wires onto the spikes within the mil distributor. The rubber boots on the spark plug wires hold them in position.
¿can you please tell me the paint code of your vw 181¿ I have the same car and this year i will try to restore it, but i need to find out the code paint, ¿can you help me? and final question, where did you restore the windows? mines are completely destroy. Thanks and nice job
Nice restauration. I need some help. I am the owner of one vw 181, a military version, and my seats the front one are starting to break. I am trying to find out a german supplier of pieces of my car, but i can´t. ¿Do you know any supplier where i can find pieces or at least the military color of the seats?. I will apreciated any help. Regards Iván
Hi kiwanbcn, my favorite 181 parts supplier is Ralf's VW in Germany. Just google that name. He is very knowledgeable about 181s and has almost everything on stock. Good luck. On ebay.de there are also a few offers for military seat covers. I found them when I searched for "VW 181 Sitzbezüge". I hope that helps you.
@@kpm181 ok man, point taken. I do understand what you mean but sometimes its reads as an insult. My wife survived twice breastcancer and its sucks that disease. Lots of north african people in the netherlands use the c word as a normal word, its really bad. But the video is cool though, i like these VW 181. Cool things.
