Sleeping Beetle, SHHHH!

The other night when I turned off the garage lights, I saw a lovely image of the fire reflecting of the white paint of my bug. So last night, I decided to try to take a picture. I use an F-stop of 11 and left the aperture open for 21 seconds. I was pretty happy with the end result.

More parts on order!

Finally made my final big parts order. I will get getting stuff from Old VW Restoations in GRB, Wolfsburg West, as well as some small stuff from Airhead Parts. I have had great. I've had great conversations with all 3 suppliers, and they are all great!

I have also been working in the garage. I got the pellet stove hooked up, it however doesn't pump out as much heat as I would like. Although my garage isn't fully insulted, so I am working on that. I am also workin on getting the bug out of the corner, and into the middle of he garage, for ease of installing parts.

Parts On Order

Just made a pretty good sized parts order from Old VW Restorations. Looking forward to getting the stuff and getting rolling. I am going to try real hard to get it complete by June 16th, the day of my annual summer party.

Pellet Stove Update

Well, I have had this old pellet stove sitting in the garage since fall, and have never done a darn thing with. Well, I finally starting to install it, since winter has finally arrived! I just needed to get a collar that goes through the wall of the garage. I am hoping to get the that installed in the next few days, then I can heat up the garage in preparation to install the wiring harness. Then the carpet, then the headliner.

New Cyber Pal!

I have recently meet a new friend online. His name is Eric Shoemaker, and his site is 1967beetle.com/ I have only been emailing him for a short time, but he has already been a wealth of 67 info.

Super slow progress

Yes, progress has almost stopped. Even though I aquired a used pellet stove for the garage in late summer, I never hooked it up. Poor Bitty Bug has been under cover for a good 6 months now. Right now I have been trying to acquire those strange one year parts, the 67 Bug has been know for. In the perfect world, she would be complete by June, so I can have a Phoenix Party, but who knows. I just want to drive my girl!

Dashboard is coming together great. I got the 8 track installed! After I get the door finished, on to the electrical! My odometer has been reset to 00000, that way I will know how much driving the "reborn" Beetle will do. She already has 145,701. I can guess the plus 100k because when I got her, I had some service records the went to 60,000 miles, so I know she rolled once, and I got her with 23,000 miles. Heck it could be 245,701. but I will stick with 145,701