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It's been a slow week or two on the bug but there will be more coming soon. Suffice to say, I have acquired a Porsche Boxster gearbox/cables and shifter for £120 so decided to put the Beetle box on ebay and it sold for £170 - that's half the price of the new Mazda RX8 front end I want to use and mean the Boxster box was free :D I am in the process of welding a sheet of metal in to the area below rear window where venting was so I am still trimming and tacking at the moment so will post more tomorrow...
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I started a mad project with a Scimitar but due to my state of mind made no progress in two years so threw the lot away, only for it to dawn on me some time I should have kept it but hey... Obviously I needed something to put in my garage so, what? Thoughts had been along the lines of classic Mini but (and saying this as someone who has had several including building myself an MG Metro turbo powered car); I am now fifty something and they are too small, bouncy and uncomfortable. Next I looked at MG BGT, but prices of parts were bonkers so it was back to fairly basic Beetle. Had my eye on a few doing the rounds on ebay but the one I went for was on fb's marketplace. Originally on the market for £900, then reduced to £600, I haggled to £500 as it would need to be collected - not by me, but commercial outfit which worked out about £80 more expensive than me doing it, but saved me a 400 mile round trip and wear and tear on my car so... Anyway, this is it So there is a to...
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