my chassis for my new hot rod project *caution* volkswagen inside

That windsheild will be badass! Your car is already nicer than mine was. I hate when people compare cars. I'm not a trend setter, and the car I built isn't special....just a chopped up VW.

Your car will no-doubt be killer. Just make sure you put a healthy IDA engine in that thing!

 

hahahahahhaa, awesome

yup, looks cool, the fab skills are probably what allowed it to stay, nice work indeed.

 

I thing all the Title talk should cease. This guy could be a title hunter or the Gov looking for another Boyd type issue/case. Dont display any titles on the internet for many reasons. Either way its not productive to the build.

 

Damn! Now I have to go dig my tinfoil hat back up from the yard...

 

My work here is done zip, zero, nadda, registered anywhere near Cincy. Now you guys can flame away and enjoy yourselves, but think of this, if your on this forum you must have some love of cars, if your in it for the love of the vehicle or for profit, the value of any car is a perceived value. Its only worth what someone is willing to pay for it, the original poster states his will never be for sale, I say thats great good for you, but what about the another person with an early car who DOES want to sell theirs ? A potential buyer will do their homework and find out just how rare a particular car is. Regardless of how good a job is done on the car in question, it will not compare to a real ( I know I know he has acknowleged it isnt a REAL 48) 1948 VW, to a VW collector . It can effect the value of a REAL 48, how so ? It increases the quantity of the vehicles available, how could one more effect value ? Ed Roths Orbitron was found in Mexico, retored and put on display. To a Roth aficionado that car is priceless, to some its worthless, say for an example some one in Gary Indian post up says "Roth built two and I have the other", the PERCEIVED value of the Boeckmann car is effected. The guy in Gary Indiana doesnt really have to produce "his" car he just puts the word out there and the whispers start. How could this post on this forum effect me and why should I care? It effects me because by most estimates there are less than 18, (I personally know the wherabouts of 13), 1948 Beetles in the U.S.A., less than 55 original survivors world wide. I own one of the documented, photographed, cars in the U.S. ( I am sure all the VW people have figured out who this is by now). To have someone say nonchalantly that they have a 48 "title" and are going to use it on what more or less is a chopped street rod, again not bashing the work that has been done to the car, can make mine worth less. Ask Reggie Jackson about how all the "tribute" ZL1 Camaros effected the value of his, and you will get a lecture. On one hand I have come across as a total douchebag on your forum, on the other hand I have gotten messages from users of this forum thanking me for taking a stand a calling someone out, VW people that know me and have be turned on to this forum have contacted me and said thanks for defending our brand. Regardless of what you may think of me or my posts here, know this, I truly love my cars, and my brand of choice is VW, I dont knock Chevy people, Ford people, Mopar guys, even though they are absolutley insane, ( that jab is for you Gaylen), I dont put down street rods, rat rods, what have you. In closing, to you 32Coupdeville, enjoy your car, thats what its all bout.

 

Cool car.....but all this "title" talk is gay.
Values, "percieved" values, etc. really don't mean shit when yer hauling ass down the ROAD.

My .02....great fabrication, but the car lacks stance....

 

That's a cute dune buggy...

 

You don't have to apologize for the bug! That little dude is going to be sweet! Ignore the "tards" talking "traditional"! A friend of mine's dad built some flat tin for his buggy back in the late 70's early 80's. It had a low mount alternator and a squirrel cage fan mounted on the crank pulley, it worked good but he knew what he was doing he was a designer for a industrial power heater blower company! Also i have a ton of car mags from the early 60's and there are a lot of Vdubs in them, how traditional is that?

 

thank you MENSA member.

 

You guys are giving Ryan pause enough to declare NO VW stuff EVER!

 

I like the whole adding holes in various places thing... but man.. that's a lot of swiss you got there. Are we trying to lighten it up a bit, or what?
Not bustin'.. just asking.

 

Great looking work... Im cutting up a dub in my shop now... Get to it!
racinman

 

Nice job on the Volksrod. I really like the look.

If you are interested in trying a Type 3 cooling system, I probably have all the parts you need and am just up in the Detroit area. Contact me by PM or email at jaransonT3@comcast.net.

 

this thing is crazy sauce. how many hole saw bits did you eat through? i think the way you build up the engine will make or break it though. I know you're not done but the big ugly stock fan shroud needs to go(not sure how you cool it though). that would be really cool if you could have the exposed jugs and case sticking out and hide the accessories farther back. kinda like a WWI airplane engine. nice work!

 

I've often thought that moving the engine forward, would be a good idea.
At least, visually, by reducing the overhang on back.

Easy enough to do, with IRS. The buggy guys was long and wider arms no problem.

 

Agreed.
CV joints don't need to be at right angles to the drive wheels. If they did, FWD cars wouldn't be able to turn!
Of course now...IF he's running a swing axle he might have some rear toe-out problems! LOL

 

Good thing I didn't buy em first! haha!
Good talkin to you and your Dad at Charlotte---wish I'd known about your bug...we coulda "spoke Volks"
I'm about to pick up a 58 'vert project---might need to.....network... with some bug rodders

 

With as much fabrication is done to the chassis, just flip the engine around mid-engine and then fabricate a nice rear end with a W decklid covering the tailcone of the transaxle. No overhang issues. Just need to duct air into the rear seat area.

 

As usual, John has all the brilliant ideas.

 

For all you title haters, a message from the Nati!

Sorry I had to..

 

Very cool! What car guy doesn't like the VW. They don't get much simpler.

 

True, its worse. VW.

 

Good, this bullshit is what turned me off to the veedub scene. I really started to hate all the vw people who were more profoundly insane about their cars then most Model A restorers. The title bullshit is pretty relevant in terms of collectors sounds fishy and I think that the bullshit call maybe worthy, but not the persistence of the whole argument.

I like the build but the Samba is the vw group someone was asking about, they have their own sites and forums. It feels like someone wants the attention that the HAMB offers. I think Fred Hs Stink bug is the shit as far as volksrods go. If I were to build-up/own another bug it would be based loosely along his build.

Spreading the Gospel of traditional Hotrodding? Uh well how many history books you open up about hotrods and see a shit load of pictures of bugs, ghias, buses, fridolins (lol), type 34, or things, on the salts, at the drags or, running scca races? The thing that comes to mind are Porsche's maybe and that's only because of James Dean's death in 1955 in the "Little Bastard" race car really, otherwise I would say there would be nothing I have ever seen printed or really published before 1965. The earliest thing I have seen is when guys started using bug bodies for gassers in the 1960s, earliest I have seen was in a HOT ROD magazine yearbook for 1965. Have some literature also where guys were using bug front beams for rears on t-buckets and also for cars on the lakebeds but this is the 60's not anything earlier. Never really caught on though that I have read or seen later pics of. I will not go into the history of the "Inch Pincher" or "Black Widow" thats what the SAMBAS for. Even so that was mid 60s.

Honestly I could not imagine a fella surviving/coming home from the European theatre after WWII and wanting anything German for a Hot Rod. If anyone wants I will post some pics of the rears of the T-buckets set ups if you want to laugh.-Weeks

 

You know Weeks, you've only been registered since July, myself, I've only been registered since December. Do you really think that give us the right to declare what is "right" and what is "wrong" for this board? The guy who owns this board said the post was cool with him, isn't that enough?

As for the complaint against hardcore veedub guys being like model A restorers, maybe they are, but so are the "can't use anything made after '64" guys in my book. The car that started this mess is just about as much veedub as a fiberglass car is a '32, it's all in the looks, everything else is aftermarket. All in all it seems like a silly thing to get ruffled up about...but what do I know, I've only been registered here since 2008...

 

here is a little up date on the hot rod volkswagen. i got the 36 ford fold out windshield frame mounted, 32 ford door handles and model a door latches in and working, mounted a gas tank, and i have decided to put kdf hub caps on the rims. the model a door latches were amazingly easy to do. i was like the door were made for them. it took about an hour to do. kinda weard how easy it was.

also the winters get bad here in cincinnati so i got a set of winter wheeel for the vw

 

Looking good! Keep us updated.

 

Man your one welding sob. Looking good.

 

It's simply a Awesome car ..............

 

good job there are a lot of haters out there that have never tried to do anything like you are doing.Heres one we did a couple of years ago we got some flack from some so called traditionalists but it was loved everywhere it went.