My 73 baja beetle

[pwmcguire]

Here are a few pictures of my 73 beetle, my 1st project, took about 15 years, still a little rough.

[tito]

what are you talking about "rough"? looks great! zebra aint my style choice.... but my opinion isn't the one that counts for your car anyway!

[DiggerD]

Very clean.......I like it!!

[67vdub]

It looks good to me nice seats and I like your bumpers. custom made?

[Bugman114]

Nice. lets see some pics of the one piece front end open. I'd really want to see how you did your hinge. I have a 61 deluxe baja i'm working on, and i'm going with a one piece as well.

[pwmcguire]

Nice. lets see some pics of the one piece front end open. I'd really want to see how you did your hinge. I have a 61 deluxe baja i'm working on, and i'm going with a one piece as well.

The hinge was built into the bumper. I purchased eveything through bugstuff in Pa. The only thing is that it didn't open far I had to extend the bumper out to get a little more space to open it. I'll get some pictures up tonight, one thing I found out putting on the one piece, if you are going to mount the headlights in the front end make sure that the headlight holes are plumb mine are tipped back and my headlights are adjusted down, thats why I had to use the eyebrows to cover the gap at the top of my headlights

[pwmcguire]

what are you talking about "rough"? looks great! zebra aint my style choice.... but my opinion isn't the one that counts for your car anyway!

I want to do the whole body in zebra stripes.

[DOODLE BUGG]

that will be cool with the zebra strips go with what you feel thats what makes these cars unike

[Bugman114]

i'm gonna paint mine completely in truck bed liner XD. i plan to take mine off roading, as well as break all kinds of suspension stuff. infact, i really don't expect the one piece to stay attached to the vehicle very long anyhow, but i'll give it a shot

[pwmcguire]

The reason why I said it was a little rough showed up one morning, I spun A bearing. It was banging away, Valves look good, but I have baseball every weekend with my son. I didn't have time to investigate fully.

[Bugman114]

If it really is a rod bearing, thats nothing some straight 50 weight, and a bottle of motor honey, won't solve, lol. I once poured a quart of gear oil in a buddies f100 ford when it was knocking. it actually quieted it down a good bit. but exploded shortly after, lol.



Looks like its time for a tear down. might either need a good used crank, or yours MIGHT be fine. won't know till you tear her down. Are you sure its a rod tho? once i thought i had a rod bearing bad, but it turned out to be the cylinder head came loose. by loose, i mean some of the nuts on the studs, had actually fallen off . It had a horrible mettalic sounding BANG BANG BANG. I still haven't fixed that yet (on my 74 super). i'll try to take a vid of it, to see if it sounds similar.

-Mike


EDIT: And geeze man, you got a baja. it shouldn't take you more then 15 minutes to yank that motor out, especially without an apron lol . sorry i couldn't resist, lol.

[DOODLE BUGG]

if you figure out you wont to uild it i will be heading up next weekend to cartersville i will help you any way i can i can do all my on machine work on the motors send a pm

[pwmcguire]

Like I said baseball is taking up alot of time, didn't get in till 12:00 last night but he won 1st place. Two practices through the week. We have our own tournament coming up soon, then off to Panama City for another tournament. Panama City will be the last one, maybe after that I will have some more time to tear it out.

[pwmcguire]

I managed to pick up a mid america motorworks rebuilt 1600 long block that has been sitting unused for a year for $500 dollars,
it still had the plastic on it. I thought it was a good deal, we will see. they go for about $1,300 shipped.

[pwmcguire]

I managed to pick up a mid america motorworks rebuilt 1600 long block that has been sitting unused for a year for $500 dollars,
it still had the plastic on it. I thought it was a good deal, we will see. they go for about $1,300 shipped.

It's installed and running. I took it to work today. It was a blast.