Keep it up, brother. I love your channel. Definitely one of my new favorites. Looking forward to the next one 👏👏👏 PS,, your car is fire.That interior is off the charts...🔥🔥🔥🔥
Haha yeah… it was definitely a hard pill to swallow. I actually wasn’t even going to get It, but I just kept thinking about it and it seemed to fit in so well.
Mr. Smith you have such a beautiful bug, I would like to pattern one like yours one day.. The color choices are great..The tires and rims...I usually notice those little things but I overlooked the Keychain... I had a 72 Camaro R/S with the sport bumpers.. I had looked for one for 4 years before finally locating one in good condition.. How do you like the vintage speed shifter? I had a couple bugs with the SCAT drag 500 shifter.. it reminded me of the old Hurst shifters.. And I never had any problems with them.. Well nuff said about my stuff.. Thx for giving us a little more info on Oliver.. Well Smith, you take care until next video..
Thank you! The key chain is my favourite little memory, plus it’s cool looking. I had looked for an old Camaro for awhile as well before my beetle but I kinda fell in love with the beetles once I looked into them. It wasn’t exactly the short shifter that was the problem, since sand got inside my frame from the sand blasting, the bushing that the shift linkage ran through also got sand in it, that I couldn’t get out. My short shifter was cheaper, from a swap meet and it amplified the grindy feeling. The taller shifter is just a preference of mine really.
If the sand wears out your shifter bushings prematurely, go with the delrin bushings... They will probably last a lifetime .. I think they might something for the transaxle connection as well.. I saw a nice installation video on TH-cam about the delrin shifter bushings.. Well you take care my friend and have a blessed week...
I am doing this on my phone, so it is hard to type. One question I have been wanting to ask. Where did you get your heater channels? My channels came from. jbugs, they are also sold at CIP-1. The ridge where the top and bottom of the channel are joined sticks out pretty far in fact, so far, they have to be trimmed so they don't rub on the seat channels. If you used the same type of channels, how did your carpets go around that? Did you do anything special. I believe on newer bugs the wires may have went under that stick out.
I got some heavy duty channels from cip1, and I actually completely forgot to say this when I talked about them. But yeah, when I held them up to my floor pans to make sure they were right, the lip was way too big, so I ground them down all the way around and re welded them for strength because I got close to the spot welds. Having them like that for wires does make sense but I just had assumed it was bad build quality. Even after that, there is a bit of a void behind my carpet there between the floor pan and that lip from the channel. I hope that helps clear up what you’re asking. Edit: you actually reminded me about how painful that whole process was, I completely forgot. I went back and looked at some photos and the lip was wayyyy too big. I almost made the whole thing come apart by trimming it down.
@@smithsgarage273 I was thinking about removing the spot welds cutting them and re spot welding them. One is on the car so Like you I am cutting to the weld on that one and rewelding I am sure. I have the same heater channels by the way. If I were to do it again it would be channels from Classic Fab or Wolfsburg West. They also did not line up at the Napoleons Hat. I had to take the front cap off the heater channel and redrill the holes. Back to cutting the lip right off and rewelding unfortunately that coating is also between the two halfs and the plug weld will have to be cleaned or sand blasted. This problem is not the end of the world but those heater channels should come with a disclaimer that they need to be modified because they are made to fit many years of cars. Thanks for the reply.
Keep it up, brother. I love your channel. Definitely one of my new favorites. Looking forward to the next one 👏👏👏 PS,, your car is fire.That interior is off the charts...🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thank you so much!
Awesome Video and 🔝Notch Beetle ,Thanks for Sharing👊🏽
Headliners are really hard ….. you did an awsome job
Thank you! I was stressing out so much trying to do it.
The price of that shifter is ridiculous! but I see why you bought it - it def. fits the rest of the interior!
Haha yeah… it was definitely a hard pill to swallow. I actually wasn’t even going to get It, but I just kept thinking about it and it seemed to fit in so well.
Remo williams’ loft space. Pretty cool
Nice car man. Put the new knob underneath a uv light until it dis colors to match the old ones.
Mr. Smith you have such a beautiful bug, I would like to pattern one like yours one day.. The color choices are great..The tires and rims...I usually notice those little things but I overlooked the Keychain...
I had a 72 Camaro R/S with the sport bumpers.. I had looked for one for 4 years before finally locating one in good condition..
How do you like the vintage speed shifter? I had a couple bugs with the SCAT drag 500 shifter.. it reminded me of the old Hurst shifters.. And I never had any problems with them..
Well nuff said about my stuff.. Thx for giving us a little more info on Oliver..
Well Smith, you take care until next video..
Thank you! The key chain is my favourite little memory, plus it’s cool looking. I had looked for an old Camaro for awhile as well before my beetle but I kinda fell in love with the beetles once I looked into them.
It wasn’t exactly the short shifter that was the problem, since sand got inside my frame from the sand blasting, the bushing that the shift linkage ran through also got sand in it, that I couldn’t get out. My short shifter was cheaper, from a swap meet and it amplified the grindy feeling. The taller shifter is just a preference of mine really.
If the sand wears out your shifter bushings prematurely, go with the delrin bushings... They will probably last a lifetime .. I think they might something for the transaxle connection as well.. I saw a nice installation video on TH-cam about the delrin shifter bushings.. Well you take care my friend and have a blessed week...
I am doing this on my phone, so it is hard to type. One question I have been wanting to ask. Where did you get your heater channels? My channels came from. jbugs, they are also sold at CIP-1. The ridge where the top and bottom of the channel are joined sticks out pretty far in fact, so far, they have to be trimmed so they don't rub on the seat channels. If you used the same type of channels, how did your carpets go around that? Did you do anything special. I believe on newer bugs the wires may have went under that stick out.
I got some heavy duty channels from cip1, and I actually completely forgot to say this when I talked about them. But yeah, when I held them up to my floor pans to make sure they were right, the lip was way too big, so I ground them down all the way around and re welded them for strength because I got close to the spot welds. Having them like that for wires does make sense but I just had assumed it was bad build quality. Even after that, there is a bit of a void behind my carpet there between the floor pan and that lip from the channel. I hope that helps clear up what you’re asking.
Edit: you actually reminded me about how painful that whole process was, I completely forgot. I went back and looked at some photos and the lip was wayyyy too big. I almost made the whole thing come apart by trimming it down.
@@smithsgarage273 I was thinking about removing the spot welds cutting them and re spot welding them. One is on the car so Like you I am cutting to the weld on that one and rewelding I am sure. I have the same heater channels by the way. If I were to do it again it would be channels from Classic Fab or Wolfsburg West. They also did not line up at the Napoleons Hat. I had to take the front cap off the heater channel and redrill the holes. Back to cutting the lip right off and rewelding unfortunately that coating is also between the two halfs and the plug weld will have to be cleaned or sand blasted. This problem is not the end of the world but those heater channels should come with a disclaimer that they need to be modified because they are made to fit many years of cars.
Thanks for the reply.
Beautiful car dude😎👍
Thanks man! 👍
Take the knob and drop it in some coffee. Watch it darken and wait until it matches up with your other knobs.
That’s actually a great idea, thanks
your steering wheel is installed upside down
Wow! Almost like my wheels are turned the way my steering wheel is.