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1500 VW Beetle convertible typ1

A faithful companion for 32 years.

After thinking about it for a few years time, I decided that I no longer can use my car as I once did and that, therefore, I will sell it to an enthusiast who could have much more pleasure from it than I can pr today.

This car is quite special in several ways. It is converted into convertible, but not the usual way. Here everything is built from the ground. No sawn-off and welded pillars and no cracks in the door / door pillars due to lack of reinforcements. This is not a kit with various fiberglass parts, everything is made of steel. The reinforcements with the approval papers that I bought from Nor Kit Cars are from a roadster kit. I chose these reinforcements because they were the best you could get. The beams with 3mm wall thickness which is welded to the floor pan does not cover over the bolts to the body, they are equipped with holes that are welded in tubes, and the floor pan is screwed on such as an original using longer bolts. Reinforcements that sits in the body structure has been modified so that they do not cover one of the bolts to the lower door hinges and cutouts are made so that the drainage holes in the heater channels are not covered.

The second is particularly rust protection. This car is fully metallized / galvanized. When I restored and converted the car, I sad to myself that I should be finished worrying about rust once and for all. The body is sandblasted and metalised several times so that the cavities also have this treatment. For example, the entire body sent to shoot blasting after it had a jig welded inside and heater channels plus cross members (under the back seat) was taken off. This meant that they could sandblast and metalize all the internal cavities that one normally can't reach. New original heater channels and cross channels were purchased. These were welded together and then hot-dip galvanized before they were welded back in place. Zinc of course had to be ground away where the welding points / seams on the body should be but everything was sandblasted and metalized in the end that is when the body was completed rebuilt. I think I have my words remain intact when I say that this is the world's best rust protected beetle. The third thing that is a bit unusual is the fact that all parts of the car is purchased new and original parts. Even where I have customized the car, I have used new original parts. Examples which include headlights that are original Porsche 911, wheels (not new) original Porsche 914, door mirrors are original Peugeot 205, rubber gaskets are always of poor quality when they are not original and therefore the crank windows seals in the doors are original Toyota Starlet and the front windshield witch is special because the glass is lower than the original, has got the VW typ 25 rear side window rubber gasket.

Driving pleasure & good handling has always been the most important thing for me and that has kept me from lowering and other "looker" modifications that allow the handling to go poorer. After two and thirty years with the beetle, I have of course tried with both "polyurethane and Sway-a-Way", but all have had to give way to the original parts as the custom things did not do any good but rather the opposite. When it comes to power, it has always been the plan to put in a bigger engine. Therefore, it is mounted an electric fuel pump and larger inside diameter, fuel tubing between tank and engine compartment. However, I found out that a race engine was not suited for long holiday trips abroad. The engine is a 1600 with two twin Dellorto carburetors, 009 distributor and extractor exhaust. Inside, the Recaro seats, dashboard, door panels etc. are upholstered with green fabric. The hood is from an English conversion kit and is made of black vinyl. The rear window is plastic while the rear side windows are glass in aluminum frame that one puts into special mounts on the car.