63Ragtop

Hey man, nice work. I'm following with interest and learning lots from this thread. Been searching for a way to avoid shitty Auckland traffic without selling my car. I'm keen to build one of these!

Is this thing going to slowly grow into a actual motorbike one day? One piece at a time...

We use to run ours on the TV.

We use to run ours on the TV.

Oh yeah, that energy star logo, legit!

So old mate Ben gave me a kick in the ass Saturday and we cracked into it. Counter sunk and drove the hex heads down, then planed the fuck outta it for a hour or two, made a lot of mess! Little bit of boiled linseed oil and looking good for a bunch of reclaimed recycled and remanufactured junk. Finished off the end bit today, very happy, can't wait to bolt the vice down. Thing is stupid heavy, solid and will keep everything inside tidy.

I posted this in the shed thread awhile back, started it nearly a year ago Started with OG native wood kitchen sink unit, circa 1950s state house. Pretty much just used the front and the old t&g floorboards on the side there, replaced and extended the frame as those old units are quite shallow. The bottoms of the drawers were worn down almost a centimeter in places from years of work, I squared it all up and replaced the thin mdf shit with this 13mm very sexy ply off cuts from work. Bottom won't full outta these! Painted the unit with the cheap dump shop paint I scored, got a little sidetracked sorting the whole shed out. And that's how it's sat for at least the last few months as life, work etc got in the way.

You're a fuckin madman. Keep up the good work!

Keen to hear that 2smoke nang!!

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah.

Living the dream people, this is what should be on Grand Small Space Designs!

I'm sure I read somewhere, that the suby sound has a lot to do with the way the zost is from factory. Yeah, aussiegears make them reverse things eh? Bug box can handle maybe 100hp, kombi about 200. Shouldn't hard to find one? Only thing that don't rust! Can convert swing axle floorpan to IRS. Wonder what year the pan is?

Love this thing bro, looks like a 70s hot wheels come to life! Vw engines take a lot of money to make any power. Is the radiator in the rear? I'm thinking turbo suby or a 13b.

Crazy dutchies.Ah, air ride. That's a whole nother cert issue, has anyone ever built a air ride bug in NZ and got it legal? The shock mounts on vw's aren't really designed to carry the whole weight of the car? Which is what happens if you remove the torsion bars like people seem to do overseas.

He is right though. First dude I took my car to for a wof went fine tooth comb on it, apart from the many many other issues, one was it needs a cert for the 1600cc as it deffiantly wasn't a 1200 and more. Also @scooters heaps of people run 2-3inch beams without a cert, unless you know, most get away with it. The only really narrow car I've see in nz was a white bug on BRMs, pretty sure it was certed, anyway doesn't really answer your question but good to sharn. I find with the 63, ground clearance is more of a issue, I've got a stock width beam and no drop spindles, and the beam is about 90mm off the deck. If i go over the speed bumps at work any faster than a crawl, the back of my front fenders get smashed, I would like to drop it one more inch.

Like the fresh angle bro, but.... Would that tail light fit in the rear fenders kick up?

Amazing fabrication Bro, great work!

All right man, this thread just got real interesting real fast!! Not going to cast your own post one like ol' bert?

x2. And Paul Smith is a muthafuckin GC.

And these!! Painted rocks with the kids one day.

And this thing.

Made this at work.

Very nice man.

Nice work man, keep going, nearly there!

Tool kit is cool. You mad bastard!