75 swallowtail and 79 rat
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75 swallowtail and 79 rat
the white 79 i have :then
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custome wheel 1/4 flares cut from a full. painted chrome but i think im gonna go back to black. same with gas cap.
and the swallowtail as it comes out of the trailer
stupid vandalism
literaly like 98% rust free. i love arizona cars. except the fact that i did find a black widdow. scarred the hell out of me. it was right next to my hand in one of the tarantula rims that came with the car also. ironic.
ill be posting a lot of pics and asking a lot of questions. hope you can help :wink:
fist things first with the swallow is to rip everything out and clear everything off and get it resprayed professionaly. im thinking white but am open to suggestions. because the interior has already been reupholstered once im planning on doing it again but want to have a good matching outside color. i was also thinking the original miami blue with an orange interior. like this one. except i could only wish mine was this good.
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what happened to the spider did it get squashed lol
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nice cars you have there, and being from Arizona I bet the swallowtail isn't suffering much rust
I like the blue with orange interior idea, it would look good
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Great cars dude, interesting to see some US members as I don't think we have many?
Mat
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I'm curious about the catalytic converter - I didn't know they were around as early as 1976, and I wasn't aware that VW put one on a Mk1 tintop at all. Is it an aftermarket addition?
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as for rust. there is vertualy none on both cars. the 79 has some in spots but no major stuff at all. except the hood :wink:
also if anyone has any lowback seats that they are willing to ship to me i would love to buy them. if i cant find any im going to buy some gti seats because the backrests dont narrow at the top and im planning to cut the headrest off and reupholstering them that way.
not too bad? what do you think?
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Look forward to seeing the progress pics! 8)
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How expensive and/or difficult is it too import from states?
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booyacha
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concunningham said
Swallow tails rock
How expensive and/or difficult is it too import from states?
Look on some bus forums for info on this - people do it all the time with type 2s etc…
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liking the 79 too.. almost as ratty as mine!! see link below, i got all those stickers including the Ding Dong one.. ebay LOL
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its pourning down rain
check out my new seats.
and new carpet
i need a new camera to take better pics of stuff.
so, on to the swallowtail, this is my workplace
i was going to take off the wheels and discovered they had these stupid gorilla nuts on them that im not sure how to take off.
are the brake lines supposed to go inside the car? never seen this before on any car
and there is my rust. the car has ac. is that stock for a 75? crazy. anyways there is a little drain tube that i think was just unhooked for a while and it drained on the floor. there are two spots where the rust goes thru, easy fix. there wasent even any rust under the window sills when i took the windows off.
i was researching popouts and i think im going to do a custom popout on all my windows. im planning to buy the side popouts on ebay, but im going to get stuff from old bugs to put on the rear windows and then im going to put them on the bottoms of the rear hatch to pop out the bottom and then im going to look into doing the same on the front window at the bottom to pop it out forward like this
just a little
also does anyone have pics of the original colors for the swallowtails?
still un decided about the color and im going to be getting ready to sandblast and paint soon. i need to make decisions
8O
and if anyone has lowback seats for sale, i want to buy them
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Do you know you have a Wolf 8O in your yard that likes being photographed with MK1s :dontknow:
1983 Mars Red 1.8 Golf GTI
1987 Alpine White 1.8 Clipper Cabriolet
The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.
1987 Alpine White 1.8 Clipper Cabriolet
The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.
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like the plans for the swallow tail
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Those wheel bolts look like you need an allen key - or have I missed something?
Out of curiosity, are American VWs put together with metric or imperial bolts?
Rich
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