Rocky,
I don’t know where you live, but I wish I would have used a new donor on my
speedster project as it was as rusted as yours. My local VW guy has IRS
frames w/ title ( he strips them as he gets them ) for about 150.00 here in
Va. – mostly bear frame
I spent huge time welding etc. and am still not ready to drop the body – I
wish I had just…[Read more]

Dude, I thought you said this car was rusty. 

Nother thumbs down on the side curtains. But I like the solid wide-5 wheels with the nipple caps. The first few thousand TDs came through with no holes in the wheels.Nice car otherwise. Buyers have to know they’re looking at a swing axle car.
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Making progress, Rocky!

Mounds.

I see it all the time. Those big, tall skinny shifters help hide the fact, but it does offend my delicate sensibilities to see a ’50s or ’60s style rod sporting an auto trans. Wouldn’t necessarily mind trading places with them, though, when crawling through downtown traffic or, like yesterday, when situated on the ramp leaving Lowes and unable to…[Read more]

Hmmm. I’ll be watching to learn on this one. I wonder if the remaining ‘glass parts are light enough to be practically removed by you and a buddy.

I love these stories!

Oh man. Good luck. we’re behind ya.

Nice job!

Hey Mark, ditto what Larry said re Moss’s TD interior kit. The guy who tried it gave me the stuff left over from his kit after he did the seats–which worked fine, he said. The door panels would not work in his or mine. They were just a bit too large in some dimensions and too small in others. Heart breaking, really, as it’s a very fine kit. The…[Read more]

Be careful, Roadie. And good luck.

Larry. I think I’m gonna want your side curtain patterns, particularly if they’re going on your BCW.

Sounds like it’s in the ball park, said the man who had two new convertible tops put on his Pontiac in the early-mid 2000s. Those were about $800 each.

Anyone hear from Wobby? He had some bad flooding earlier this year, I believe.

She stops good & straight now. No more sticky.

Pops had a ’38 Phaeton–4-door convertible–some time before the Volvo. Mom says he used to wear a top hat when he drove it. As they slowed toward the town square she’d start singing the Miss America theme to announce herself.

I gotta go out & mend fence. Otherwise, no damage.

Didn’t want to burn it with the stick welder.

Housemate in the early 1990s drove in with a ’66 Volvo wagon. Wasn’t in bad shape either, but hardly practical as an everyday car by that time. The water pump went in the first week, and she wanted to fix it herself, so I helped her do it. Not that hard a job. The car went at least another year but I don’t remember what became of it after that.My…[Read more]