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Here's the thread on the Mexican built coupe - https://www.speedsterowners.co...56-continental-coupe
WOLFGANG
Maybe next time. Hope the fix goes well
Roy
Re: Mexican made 356 kit using Super Beetle chassis
Troy Sloan
@Bob: IM S6 , @WOLFGANG - Very funny, both of you! What a great pic, Greg! And no worries, I won't be drilling any holes in the original...
ALB
I hate it when Al gets around a wheel rim with his drill press - the wind whistling thru the holes must be deafening! It does make the...
WOLFGANG
Al: And don't forget to drill lots of holes in the tires. There's that big one right in the middle, but more around the sides would help...
Bob: IM S6
I regret to inform you that those aren't coffee stains - We had a cat that used to hang out in the garage. The papers still have a...
WOLFGANG
"Lane! Recognize that poster on the door?" Yup!
Lane Anderson
Ahhhhh..... The thrill of building your own Speedster. Couldn't more than a few weeks, right? shorten the pan, slap on a new front beam...
Gordon Nichols
Pardon the typo in the above post. The trip home did indeed take 5 hours at 35 mph but normally it would have been 2 1/2 hours, not 1...
Jack Crosby
As you can read here, this build is not for the timid. An all ready completed speedster, still provides many owners the mechanical...
Art
A seasoned driver might feel it on the track, but I don't think you're going to feel a 15 lb difference in the front end on the street...
ALB
Yeah, the builder could certainly have included all that stuff and made it right when it shipped, but that would have been highly out of...
Gordon Nichols
Rafael is the guy in Mexico ( ralbiter@hotmail.com ). There are a few bodies in US although at one time a US manufacturer had their...
WOLFGANG
Rafael is the guy in Mexico.
Robert M
Gordon, Thank you so much for the information. I will get that Later dated Fiberfab instruction manual and take it from there.
Well, that's a tougher question. Whatever body you have needs to mate up with the corners of the VW pan, so measuring both the body and...
Gordon Nichols
Thanks guys, as I somewhat suspected. Also, anyone familiar with a Mexican built 356 kit ? The gentleman I am haggling with claims the...
I've done much of what Gordon indicated. I've found wires not anchored, a few leaks, missing dash light bulbs; things like that. What I...
Jim Gilbert - Madison, Mississippi
IIRC, (help me with the dates, Wolfgang), the Superbeetle MacPherson Strut (MS) front end was an option from 1970 to 1974, after which...
Gordon Nichols