Yup, the bus wheels have round holes.
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=WAD%2D21 1%2D601%2D027%2DH
And I never have understood why the bus has 14″ wheels and the beetle has 15s.

I like the looks of these as they are a bit closer to original MGTD wheels. I saw some bus wheels on the samba for sale that had round holes but they were all 14 inch rims and we use 15 inch rims. My 74 74 Ghia didn’t have those rims and I changed to the 8-spoke rims when I did the rebuild.

Just adding a little to what Ed wrote….
The rim on the rear is a stock steel wheel used on 68-79 Beetles and 67-74 Ghia.
It’s a 15 inch wheel, four bolt, with 4 1/4 ” backspace.
It does NOT have the lugs or “ears” for a hubcap.
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ACC%2DC1 0%2D6609PMOSSBERG40562.6467824074

Those’d fit four-lug Beetles, ’68 through 79, Karman Ghias of the same vintage, etc. New ones like it are $50 each at CIP1. Not sure what, if any, hubcaps fit though. Cip1 suggests a center cap of some kind that covers the grease cap but not the wheel bolts.I think they’d be very cool if you could get a dog dish or half moon cap on ’em.

If anyone is interested in the car in The Villages I would be happy to check it out for you.  The owner and I belong to the same Car Club and we have mutual friends.
Any comments I feedback will be totally impartial but I might be able to provide some insights into the sellers motivation.
 

Yes the car Is stored inside, I got the car about a year ago the body
was fitted on the car with all the body panels and complete drive train.
The car looks to me like its never been outside.

Ed’s approach will work if you want to crop the picture. But it you don’t need to crop it, you want to “compress” the file.This is my preferred approach. My example uses Microsoft Office Picture ManagerClick EditClick Compress PicturesSelect Documents and click ok. This compresses the image to a size that is quite usable to email or to post here

Dale: You
should be able to make your photo smaller by opening the picture in your photo
program and resaving it smaller, either by choosing a lower quality
jpeg format, resizing it by pixels (I like 300 by 400) or cropping it
and saving the cropped part under a new name.

I measured from the base of the seat cushion frame on my 74 Ghia (don’t know if the bug seats are that much different) and the height with the sisal pad, foam and upholstery is 7 inches at the front. Didn’t measure the rear of the seat cushion. If someone will measure the height of their TD cushion from the wood to the top at the front and back…[Read more]

Well I guess my pic’s are to big to post – I will try to make them smaller when
I do the second seat unless anyone knows how to fix.
Dale

If your car was a little bit closer I’d get it in a heart beat.  I was wondering if you still had it for sale!  Do you have it stored inside?  I just bought (and building) a TD with a V6 and 4 speed and am putting a lot of money into the car even after the guy I bought it from said it all was there!

Hey guys I still have the car… make me an
offer on it …

Sorry – didn’t get the pic’s posted last night – will get my son to give me a hand when I get home today.

If someone will measure the height from the seat base to the top of the seat cushion and let me know I can have my friend measure the height of his bug seat cushion and compare. I think the bug seat cushion frame with the springs etc might be a little high nbut doable if you use the spring bas rather than the piece of wood.
Thanks

I’ve tried several types of foam and so far NONE have held up for much over and hour.  I’m in the process of cutting in the hole idea and going to try a heavy canvas materal or a web then a 1/2 in thick very firm (almost solid) foam then the original foam and 1 in of memory foam.  The wife has suggested just using something like a bean bag chair…[Read more]

Richard,
You should order the BugMe Video series CDs. Even though I’ve beenrebuilding VW engines and bugs since 1979, I still have the entire set. Check them out.

When it comes to screwing up, I lead by example.

The heated seats interest me keep posting, Let me know how that works.

Update:
I decided to try a fix on my seats over the weekend using seat strapping I bought at a upholstry shop. I cut out the center of my seat plywood and used the stapping underneath – seems to work real well. I will need to take it on a long drive when the weather gets better – I may need to tighten up the straps a bit if I sink down to much. I…[Read more]

See? That’s why I have only two old cars (my Duchess and a 65 Plymouth) but seven guitars and a mandolin. Cheaper and easier to justify!