I do appreciate your plan Lee, and yes lots of later parts can be used to get it on the road, but I found & bought my cheap body which was at the time a surprise xmas gift for someone else 😶 :roll: And then eventually after a saga got the car back and after much deliberation decided to do it myself for the hell of it, rather than just sell it on after all the trouble.
But I have had so much enjoyment out of the work so far without ever having an engine in it! I have however changed my original plan of using later parts ( except the bonnet) But the parts are EXPENSIVE!!
There is no profit in restoring beetles...at all, zero, in fact -zero! :lol:
And if you cobble a car together with later parts, even oval, you will get a very low price for the finished car, because it will be a bitza.
People who sell 40's beetles are generally very concerned with whats going to happen to them. It's not all about money. Thats beetles for you !
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"it'll wreck the patina you haven't worked so hard to create" - 50Karmann