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Hi fellas~
haven’t done anything more with this, summer was just too much and his bike has taken center stage.
We’ve decided to start reducing some of the projects we’ve accumulated in the past few years. This is one, I really want to go camping and have gotten an atv and looking for another. Also trying to fix up my bay/bus for traveling and the camping.Soon as I get an est of what it might be worth, I’d like to sell it.
It’s still pretty solid for its age and assuming it’s one of the early versions.
Just decided, it’s better to let it go than to watch it degrade~
it will be fun for someone~
Any ideas, let me know~
thanks for having a site though, it was great surfing around and gathering info~
well it had a heartbeat.
Took it out and installed it in my car. It’s engine was dieing fast, bent ex valve, possibly eaten valve seatt and so much end play the clutch and flywheel looked like new from all the oil nice and shiney, , luckily though the disc has stayed dry, somehow.
On the MG engine, The oil screen was clean and the oil was like maple syrup, only slightly dark.it won’t be driven much til winter when he puts the bike away. Hoping to get started now on more tear down . Will take the gauges out carefully and pack them ,he was shocked they still worked, so why buy new if I don’t have to.
will post when it begins~ maybe when temps begin to drop a bit.
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IT LIVES!!!!!
he finally got away from the bikes, put in a charged battery, a fuel can on top of the lid, adjusted the elec dist (it was tight against the shaft) hooked up a quick start switch, and fired it up!
It has 60lbs of oil pres, and idles at 40!I am STOKED!!!!!
I’m bored while doing laundry, figured I’d post a couple things I just came across. Thom, you may have these~
from the site~
http://www.mclellansautomotive.com/lit/bysub/kit-cars-and-re plicars/daytonaautomotive/index.shtml
and this tidbit in a description for a 4pg sales flyer.~
quoted~ NOTE: Company
was later sold to Fiberfab. endanother tidbit, found in a unsuspecting place, youngetrepreneurs forum.
http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/forum/177681-post6.html
A website in his profile no longer works. I get the feeling, it’s not the same company.
odd where search functions take you.purplemyth40012.4885532407
It dawned on me last night, lately I have been slower on some simple
and obviuos things, and being blonde helps according to most,
but I
remembered that just because the copyright states 1975, doesn’t mean it was built in 75. I can’t read
the Fla reg tag, so who knows when this was actually molded and built. Like a copywrited
book, it may be republished 20yrs later. But this thing sure shows
signs of being quite old. The fender edges are frayed in some areas,
especially the rear tails.
(edit~ looking at the tag on the tunnel, its just the same #’s as the frame vin. Which is a ’74. So the only way to know for sure it’s mold date , will be to figure out the stamped #’s on the ‘firewall’.)
I noticed something yesterday, light was just right, but there is a mold line from the top door edge across the body and across the fender. Paint being faded, never saw it, and I do not see it on any of the darker painted cars, this would stand out on darker colors. I’ll get a pic, it’s definatly in the gelcoat.I had looked for sites with her, but most I found were dated a few yrs ago, nothing for 09 or I would have tried to contact her. RIP Laverne, I’ll dress it up nice~ I had found links to hubby’s obit.
I have been keeping excerts from your posts, since I have a rebuild thread in another vw site, hope thats ok, I’ll add this into, they guys like the bit of history.
Well if I come across anything I need info dug up on, I’ll sure hand it to you guys
. This info will sure benefit others too. I have looked on other sites, no one has history other than a couple of lines~Have a good weekend ya’ll!
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did you see this id in my build thread?
(click for bigger pic)
it says nothing more than
copyright 1975
(an ID number starting with C , I fuzzed it out)
Laverne J Martincic
body by Daytona.It’s on a 74 bug frame.
I did some searching last month when we got this. Not much online about the company, that 3 people ran in daytona. I found an address and a lawsuit with another company in daytona. I quit after that.
Either way, this thing being a 75, it is well worn in certain areas. The more I have goten into it, the more lil things have popped up to be fixed. No biggie though.
I do like your engine cover though. Ours is not cleanly shaped on the bottom and is burnt inside from sitting on the exhaust. It may be a replacement from another kit, a friend has a buggy local and it’s very close to his.Look forward to your scans.
Thanks Mindseye!
Great info!
And like you said Paul, an antique kit lol! fits right in with all the other old cars we have 🙂Does yours have a tag on the tunnel also? I don’t have a pic posted of mine, but it’s there , listing it as a registered kit car in Fla.
There’s some more pics in a thread in the my project area too. Haven’t done much more to it. (hubby has bikes on the brains right now)
Might get to doing a bit more on it this weekend, chiro reset me and I’m able again. And weather a bit more tolerable.I am looking at your pics now. That looks more like ours, the front fenders are different on the others. Was going to reshape them a bit, but now I’ll leave them alone.
Like the grill. In my rebuild thread, I have a pic showing the body grill, an added grill, and then a chrome piece someone added.
Yes, I’d be interested in seeing original info. My aunt and uncle didn’t rec any when they bought this off a used car lot 🙁on the top of the tunnel, under the seat, ,in front of the shifter coupler cover plate, should be some numbers stamped into that area. That will be for the pan/frame, but vws are so interchangeable, it will not confirm yrs of the engine or the tranny.
Hope that helps~VDO has 2 available , FOR vw. One goes in the head of the dipstick, the other goes in the oil drain plug.
Some folks will drill and tap it to go into the sump instead.
It’s just a small brass piece with a small button on top. Price a while back ran around $30 for the drain plug one.
They should list them on their website.There are VDOs in the daytona we just got too. It has a pressure sensor that is just under the distributor on the side of the case. So if you have that , that’s where that one is too.
Oh I’m not in a hurry . If this were my only car, I might be. If anything I have more patience than hubby does.
It’s not all that big a project really, not like a metal body in the same shape would be. We have plenty of spare parts out back, we sorta collect bugs lol!
But no, no discouragement here. He’s said he’ll get the engine running this weekend. That’s the biggest part, if the engine is junk, we’ll have to build another. But I can still tinker along on other parts. There are pics in the main photobucket of the other things we’ve tinkered with.
BTW~ has anyone prepped and painted a fg body before? Hubby works at a NAPA with paint supplies available. We know how to do metal, but not fg. I want to make sure we get the right stuff for it, mainly proper sanding grits and the primers to make sure the paint will stay on the car. I know gel coat is tough, dealt with it long time ago and the paint on a boat after a few years in the water would start flaking off. Don’t want that to happen. Any tips greatly appreciated.
Time to get moving, later friends 🙂
Yeah, around here, there are alot of ‘oh I wish I had this at home instead of it wasting away in the junkyard/back fields’ cars. But we have way too many as it is. Can’t afford to do them big projects anyways. This one though is doable fairly easy. Would be much easier if the almost new frame with new pans under a dune buggy had a current title. But he doesn’t want to mess with moving the shifter on it . So I told him to just leave the pans in it too. Would rather have nice solid flat steel floors.
Old ford trucks, sigh~ I won’t go there~I have 2 trucks, 62 & a 79 bronco, both work hard when needed.
But yep, this thing could have easliy been filled up with sand , gutted for a kids play yard or hauled to a dump to just crumble. But it’s still very solid. Only found a few minor repairs needed, the rear deck lid, top of the passenger door, and a bunch of holes, like the 2 drywall screws thru the driver side to hold the carpet up.
Hubby says he’ll get into it more after he finishes a bike, but I know if I keep tinkering with it, he’ll get bugged
I’m so tempted to drag the airline out there with the d/a with some 200 and start removing the white, but I’ll wait til I can have the shop.
I just can’t wait to drive it!
back to my imaginary shop.twisted, sounds interesting, I’ve been called worse!
(fixed my spelling, I scrapped off the strips, old keyboard)
Here’s a few pics. More loaded in the photobucket though.
will leave it this way.
it looks so bare now.
today would be a good day to work on it, won’t be as hot, but I’m to the point it needs stronger backs than me. I will get it up on blocks though just to have it level and get the rotted wheels off. Then I’ll get all the body bolts out so the body can be lifted.
Will be doing some photoshopping now, no danger of heat stroke there~
Later folks~
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Very cool Ringo!
I’ll be making a chiropractor appt early this month, and I’m sure he’ll ask, ‘ ok. what are you doing now you are really tweaked’ um,,, just cleaning, I swear!!!!
He knows better. Took the grillS, both of them off. Going to use the original one, it just won’t look right with no chrome on the bottom. So we’ll paint it with the car, but after I do some realistic effects to the ‘bars’. I read the part on the BBQ paint, and I think my paints will be ok on it, will test it first. I use just base coat automotive in my airbrush. But I think I can give them some dimension.
Took a cap off and found the steering adjuster screw, will clean that boogered up hole too. Maybe can put a cross bar there to cover it .
But I can officailly say it is red. Scrapped off the step strips and the white paint flakes off around those. I’ve had a red car before, and got tired of waxing once a month, I know new paints won’t fade as fast, but it’ll get something else.I have some more pics of today’s destruction, will get those loaded in as soon as I clean up my mess and take the umbrella down. I’m out side in the yard while hubby is in the garage with his bikes, and a fan, but it’s been breezy so not too bad , still freaking hot!
Pics later~
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Was wondering if it was real/repo MG. Fixing to remove the headlights in a few to get it off.
I have the floors all swept out, I hate rust in the yard. And the engine is degreased. Found the two idle stop screws laying in oil, plus dozen nuts. Found a handful of bolts, nuts, and screws under a piece of plywood on the drivers side. 3 of those are the funky bit bolts for the door hinges, and one is missing on the catch plate dr door.
No matter, going with all SS when we go back together.
I’m taking pics of everything so as I take things off I can see where they go back, but not much is going to be kept right now. Even the 2 fg boxes the seat sat on, We’ve already discussed building a proper metal frame. Might go small low back buckets from early style beetle if we can figure how to make the dr side slide. I’m only 5’2″, Hubby is 6’2″. Sitting in the seat as is? I look the part of a ‘lil ole lady from pasadena’! RIGHT thru the steering wheel! I like open view, and don’t want a booster seat lol! He looked at the front beam, PO cut the tube, pointed the adjuster dow, and there is almost no travel on the front. So we’ll be replacing that too. I have an adjustable with drop spindles and a heavy sway bar on my 74 beetle, and it’s a go-kart, but rides nice, may go that way again.
Have looked over some old porsche wheels we have, will get them cleaned and painted later.
Lots of other things we see can be made, a package shelf under the dash, flove box to house the radio, shelf over gas tank for spare tire and tools. It’s still a vw, never go anywhere without tools!
And close up the area behind the seats too for storage.
Oh so many ideas!I’m glad I found some place I can ask and get feed back on this lil toy. I’m in the volksrods site,
A few of the guys there are cool with it but I don’t have a build thread for comments. I’ve always wanted a 32 ford coupe, can’t afford one, so this is the next best thing for me . Thanks for comments and all the info tucked here. Excellent pics too!
well, back to work, sorry if I talk too much, but sometimes I just do. I’m just another car nut.I just checked it, it’s in the gel coat.
Many years ago I worked at a boat shop, and the builder of the hulls did the same thing, his looked like that too.
I’ll use some paint stripper over that instead of sanding when we get to that part.3 hrs. 100* but I wanted to get started. Washed and scrubbed it, removed the spare tire, and then gutted it.
Nothing more than a fiberglass sheet on the passenger floor, on the driver side, a trimmed to fit piece of plywood. All the carpet is out, dry rotted so it basically just crumbled. Have everything piled up, will keep the seat for a pattern only. I’m sure if one sat on it it would crack apart.
Battery box is not attached, but that area is usually shot in most bugs. Will have to do a lil clean up around the shifter.Was reading a thread by fareoh, he ridid the grill. So I assume, this is not right either? This shell doesn’t belong on this car?
I’ll pull the lights off and look this over.
Tomorrow all the wiring comes out And then I’ll clean up the engine. We have rewired several bugs so this will be just as easy. Won’t happen til the body goes back on anyways.
All for now.On a mechanical speedo, check the cable. Make sure it’s spinning freely in the case, if it has any stiff bends , it may have worn a rough spot in the housing and any drag and needle will jump a bit. Make sure it’s securely connected at both ends.
On our bugs, it connects at the front wheel, some times they vibrate loose and if not tight would be jumpy.
on the getting hot, might be time to clean the radiator? if you haven’t done it in a few years, it will get sediment in the bottom, or just might be time to replace the thermostat.
Something to check though ~purplemyth39991.6104282407
http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a71/crbugs143/MG/
These are the pics I have so far, will get more when we get it home and scrub it clean.
There’s a pic of the ID on the front wall, I blanked out the serial #’s they are there , just habit.
I did a bit of researching this past week, and the ‘body by daytona’ lead to a company in Daytona , Fla making these too. But they are out of biz now, far as I can tell a lawsuit with another local comp, didn’t go reading details on that. So I assume this is called the Daytona Migi?
I’m just curiuos on parts used from other cars. I read in another thread, wipers from a 74 beetle? Things like that. The floor pans are shot on the passenger side but we’ll replace bothprobably with just flat steel.
We have a bradely Gt also and they take parts from other cars, so just wondering what all was put on this other than the tailights, front turnlights, frame/pan and engine being VW.
Going to registry thread now 🙂
thanks Paul~purplemyth39991.6234722222
