The car is still available…

 Bill, use the search button at the top ,type in rear springs and look at Hawk521’s post about Chevette springs. Good info on this subject.

I pull a 14′ flat bed trailer with 12″ wheels behind mine. It pulls like a dream. On road trips I put my luggage behind the seat and use the trailer for my wife’s luggage . The trailer was made from a pop-up trailer frame. 

 Hi, Quite a project you’ve got there.
 It might be helpful to give your location. Just the general area would be OK. The prospective buyer would have a better idea of the cost and effort required to get it home.
Also ,I did not see the doors on the list or in the pictures.Did I overlook them or are they missing?
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 Rollie, Thanks for the info. That’s a good looking TD replica.You’ve got it dressed to go out on the town.

Ahh the memories. My ribs still hurt from laughing so hard when I taught my son. One good thing is the VW transaxles can take a licking and keep on ticking.

Looks awesome Rollie. Definately going to try it.
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She looks great Rollie!
Just a slight bit of patina, appropriate for a reproduction of a 58 year old car!

I figure we’ll all be toast if we have a serious “event” in these cars anyway.
But she’s 17 now and three people don’t fit.
Of course, now I have to teach her to operate a manual transmission so she can drive the thing. 🙂

When you’re young enough, nothing beats dad’s arm for a seat belt!
 

There ! How is that for a 30 year old fiberglass shine ? As you can see , the
fender tips are a little dull, glazed, not quite as shinny, as other parts. The
finish was nice without the wax, but I wanted to save/protect what I had and
used the paste wax over it. I am thrilled !

Rollie,
I’m going to give Mequiars “Ultimate compound” a try. Did you use the 
“tech wax 2.0” “liquid” or “paste” afterward?
 

That is brilliant, Paul. Less than half a second off perfect! Was it in the TD?And, yeah, setup on these might be more work than I can handle next summer. I do have other pursuits. But there appears to be a rally club or two ’round these parts. Maybe we can muster up a TD contingent for an existing run. I’m going to open it up to the Speedster…[Read more]

A true TSD rally is a LOT of work to put together.
I’ve done the One Lap of Connecticut a few times. It’s a fund raiser for a children’s hospital.
We WON the first time out. At one point per hundreth of a second off from perfect, we scored a 43. Yes. A 43!
And we had a “zero” on one timed segment, which means we hit the timing strip at EXACTLY the…[Read more]

When Lauren was small enough, we tuck her between us on the single seat fo rshort drives aroudn town. Yes I  know, bad bad parenting!

Tried to post picture….didn’t work. sorry

Larry, I looked at it this morning, cloudy day , and I didn’t notice the effect
you mentioned. May be the difference in the color, light vs. dark

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I’m lovin’ that little kid standing up in the well behind the seats. No belts on anybody…and those wicked-cool leather RAF helmets. OK, maybe that’s not Paul in 1979. It’s me in 2015.Gotta find that movie. Watched “Two For The Road” w/ Karen last month and it almost broke us up. Total bummer of a film. Couple cool TD scenes though.

sounds good wish I did that I  wet sanded her  and polished by hand ,,lots of work I don’t think gelcoat shins like good paint ,,but is a lot more cost effective..  Dan