It’s funny to hear you singing about Amarillo. Some of my trips take me through there. While I’m not a Country music fan, I ALWAYS replay “Amarilla by mornin’” in my head and out loud 😂
Thats awesome you were able to save this car! All are worth saving with some time, money and energy! I pulled my Squareback out of a farmers field and let it see the road again after about 30 years!
Please consider saving this Beetle. Yes, it looks bad, but this is a high-value Beetle that could be pristine again. A new life for that car can begin in your Farm Shed. Many out there would easily tackle this job of restoration. I restored a Scrap Yard Beetle in 2004. I had little experience of Car renovation. It was heading for the Crusher as an engine fire destroyed all of it! Today, it is my pride & joy, but glad that I did not quit - or give-up.
that will buff out! good on ya, I see your doing this with your son? teach him and he will pick up where you leave off, can't ask for anything better to leave behind, cheers!
This could likely be revived, if you can find a craftsman with the skill level of say, fn Mike. It looks like someone put a later engine in it, complete with 12 volt alternator, which may have as much as 20 extra horsepower. This car was someone's pride & joy. Paint looks relatively fresh, complete with red rims and port-a-walls. Rear decklid has good parts like tag light, t-handle latch, good taillights. What happened may have been too much "go" with too little braking, or poor little swing axle couldn't hold the road. I would look for a sliding sunroof section to start.
Lots of good parts there. you could probably even save the heater channels if they are good find another rusted out shell (bottom rust) use the lower panels to save the rusted shell. RHD semaphore car pretty expensive in the US.... Left door is pretty tweaked but it could be saved too. door glass wind wings. Front fenders (wings) totally savable. trans case and motor case probably shot wont know till you get the wrinkled sheet metal off of there. I have used cars like that to save a totally jacked up shell before. Maybe one that was hit in the front really hard that nobody wants.
Good advice from one of the most knowledgeable VW gurus extant! Every classic VW is worth saving and I too see LOTS of valuable parts on this car. Congrats VW Farm for coming to the rescue. great to see some VW vids from the UK. Subbed!
I saved my rag top bug with an unsavable shell like that cut out from the bottom of the package tray all the way to the lower quarters. sectioned it and saved a normally unsavable car. Rag top was too rusted for most people to save. But due to the donor car I am driving it today.
@@neildavies2276 If it included a link the channel may disallow live links or possibly the YT Police Bots deleted it. Has happened to me several times.
From across the pond. Yeah you can save it. I returned to my '69 bug after finishing a 2nd shift (1530-0000) to find my vehicle surrounded by members of the local constabulary. In pursuit of a stolen vehicle the police suspect exited his car, on a ramp to a major road, jumped over the rail, and landed on the head of my car, creating a large salad bowl. The suspect then slid down the bonnet and sliced open his ankle on my front reg. plate. One of the officers had me push both seats forward. He entered my vehicle, placed his feet on the heater duct tubes and pushed his large frame against the roof. I then drove home with a few dents. Narragansett Bay.
Looks like someone went round a corner too fast in the wet, lost the back end, and flipped it. A classic design fault in the Beetle. I made the same mistake once in my '65, but thankfully after spinning 180 degrees came to a halt neatly parked facing in the opposite direction. Don't make the same mistake or else this is what might happen, take it easy around the corners!
If you can,t fix it then make it either a beach buggy be fun round the farm or as a donor for another beetle. Hope you didn't scratch the paint with that tractor ha,ha
If you're going to be making a series out of this, please address your video quality. I am imagining that most of your work will be in that shed, but the video is somehow reacting to the frequency of the lights, and is pulsing, like a soft strobe effect. There's no way most of us will sit through that kind of punishment.
@@michaeldesilvio221 ... 69 bug was my first car. My father bought it new, and I bought it from him 3 years later, in a strange turn of events. The twist is I bought a cherry 67 GTO and the insurance was out in left field, so we traded cars. That car got me into the repair business and by 1976 I was running a VW specialty shop.
sir am an old swiss, 7 years older then these bug. i always thought i know a little English. but for me your dialect is very hard to understand. could you not speak real English? you may will get more foreigner followers. take care and stay healthy
Maybe, but there are a lot of good parts on it. A pre-60 front clip is several hundreds of pounds, and other than the dent in the drivers side, it doesn't look bad at all. I've just bought a 71 front end for a current project which was £400, and I had a 58 front end 15 years ago which cost £500 that I was going to use as donor sheetmetal for my 51 split.
