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Looking like a good solid basis for your German Looker, Karl
’72 Bug
German Project
I have just started on my new project, a ’72 Bug. Once I’d stripped everything out it didn’t look as bad as I fi rst thought. I’m going to stick with the yellow paint and style it along the lines of the German Look with all the chrome black and lowered on Porsche 17-inch wheels. Karl Bennet Northampton
bought this car about a year ago when I went looking for a car for a friend of mine. The friend went home empty- handed and I ended up buying this completely stock ’56 deluxe. It’s a matching numbers car, originally sold in Sweden and equipped with a matching colour and a green leather interior. It still has its original colour, except from some body parts which were already repainted in the same rare Diamond Green. Apart from the heater channels, the car was very solid, perfect for my last rat looker, as the next car I’m planning is going to be a full resto project.
Once everything is stripped out, one option is to put less back in and make a real race-style car
With the car in my garage, the search for the right parts could begin. I started out by fi tting a 4.5-inch narrowed airbeam made by Erwin from Volksprojects in the Netherlands, and lowering the rear two splines with notched spring plates. Heavy-duty KYB shocks replaced the stock ones. Then, after already having bought and sold a set of chromed and polished Fuchs wheels, I fi nally found a nice set of detailed ones and fi tted
Nice clean engine should pull those 17-inch wheels along fi ne
Low ’56 Oval
Air ride Oval
There are big debates about air. But what a STANCE!
This pic really shows off the tuck on the front end
Taking suitcase sounds to the next level, Stijn even folded a couple of shirts up
found it could use some more “schwung” and installed a 1641cc engine with twin Weber carbs. As the car was transformed to 12V to power the air ride system I took the opportunity to install a radio under the rear seat and transformed an old suitcase into my speakers. The stock hood
them with
coloured centre caps which I found on eBay Germany. Running adapters in the back pushing out the wheels an inch on each side, this wasn’t an option at the front as it would bring out the wheels too much and I really wanted to keep that narrowed front end look, so I fi tted disc brake dropped spindles fi tted with 5x130 pattern CSP discs and new brake calipers, giving me some extra brake power and a direct fi t for the Fuchs wheels. I felt it needed something extra in the engine compartment. Originally equipped with a 1200cc, I
crest got replaced by a Brazil hood crest, combined with a matching Brazil horn push. In the process, small things like worn-out bushings, seals and light bulbs were also replaced.
The ’56 isn’t used as a daily driver simply because Belgian law doesn’t allow it when you’re running “old-timer” license plates. But then again, who can resist a beautiful summer day to go cruisin’ with some friends... ;-) Stijn Cools Belgium
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