"BoulderZ" (BoulderZ)
11/06/2014 at 11:51 • Filed to: None
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"BoulderZ" (BoulderZ)
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There was a thread a week or two ago about some Ghias that had been given the Baja Bug treatment that I enjoyed. I'd never seen one done like that, and I like it. Today I got to wondering, "Have people Baja'd any of the other aircooled VWs?". That's like asking, "I wonder if there's an internet porn site for that?". You know the answer is yes before you even finish the question. Of course, having a practical bent, I wondered if anyone had given the treatment to a squareback wagon. Some very nice results come up in GIS.
In a few years it'll be time to pick out a project car to build with my kid, if he's interested. If f I asked him right now what car we should get, he'd say "fire truck" or "bendy bus". While that'd be fun, it's not going to happen. Wonder if he'll dig one of these?
Coty
> BoulderZ
11/06/2014 at 11:55 |
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Do a notchback and watch everyone in the ACVW community lose their collective shit.
RallyWrench
> BoulderZ
11/06/2014 at 11:57 |
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A SquareBaja! I love it.
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BoulderZ
> Coty
11/06/2014 at 12:00 |
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I was surprised to see how many "stanced" notchbacks I saw while poking around.
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BoulderZ
> RallyWrench
11/06/2014 at 12:01 |
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I just now searched "baja vw thing", too. Similarly intriguing.
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Coty
> BoulderZ
11/06/2014 at 12:01 |
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I like to pretend my Beetle is a stanced Baja. Has Baja parts and stuff, but it's low as hell.
Have you ever seen a type 34 Ghia? I really want to slam one of those.
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BoulderZ
> Coty
11/06/2014 at 12:04 |
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My neighbor up the street had one for awhile (guy changes VWs almost as frequently as clothes) in his rotating assortment of 4 to 8. I think he just did a basic re-fresh and polish-it-up. Though I'm not really a stance/flush/slam guy, I can appreciate it, and you're right, that could look really, really nice.
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Coty
> BoulderZ
11/06/2014 at 12:07 |
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I mean, unf.
Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> BoulderZ
11/06/2014 at 12:08 |
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This is the very definition of a battlewagon.
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BoulderZ
> Coty
11/06/2014 at 12:12 |
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I like it! I wonder what it'd look like with a really polished, but circa 1950s not-quite-brit-racing-green paint (no metal flake), with all the chrome done to nearly blinding polish (including the wheels).
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Coty
> BoulderZ
11/06/2014 at 12:14 |
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I like kinda dull, aged finishes. Pretty much all of my VWs are that way.
Imirrelephant
> BoulderZ
11/06/2014 at 12:14 |
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That thing looks tough!
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BoulderZ
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
11/06/2014 at 12:15 |
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If I did that here, with Grateful Dead or Phish stickers on it and some tie-dye, but then added a gun rack or roof rack with all the trail gear (highlift jack, gas cans), and stuck deer antlers on the front, I could confuse everyone. Or they'd all hate me. Po-tay-toe, po-tah-toe.
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BoulderZ
> Coty
11/06/2014 at 12:17 |
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It's hard to get them not to be that way. Our main family car when I was a little kid was a Superbeetle, 1200cc. My folks weren't the best at maintaining cars, but they did try, and there was no keeping that thing from always being a faded red. With the perspective of a few decades, I find myself missing that car. Rust was the end of it (stupid PA East Coast road salt), a tragic waste.
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Coty
> BoulderZ
11/06/2014 at 12:18 |
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I live in New Hampshire, I know that roadsalt life.
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BoulderZ
> Coty
11/06/2014 at 12:22 |
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Oof. NH is even worse than PA for that, almost IL levels. I don't have a better solution, though. The steep, albeit short, hills of the east, combined with the wet, heavy snow of the region, and lots of day-melt-night-freeze makes it pretty much a necessity there.
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Coty
> BoulderZ
11/06/2014 at 12:29 |
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I drove my Ranger, non-undercoated, through the winter last winter and it doesn't have any rust. I don't get it.
Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
> BoulderZ
11/06/2014 at 12:34 |
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Am I doing it right?
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BoulderZ
> Coty
11/06/2014 at 12:52 |
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What year? Even in the last 5 or 6 years the chemical engineering in the prep, primer, paint, and clear materials has greatly improved. The regular finish now is much more rust resistant than even the best paint and undercoat that was available in the 90s. Do you do much preventive work, like trying to do the undercarriage was a lot? In any case, way to go! Glad it's holding up against the assault!
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BoulderZ
> Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
11/06/2014 at 13:32 |
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I could get next to that! The jet and the P-car.
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Coty
> BoulderZ
11/06/2014 at 13:41 |
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It's a '94.
Picture taken maybe 20 minutes ago.
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BoulderZ
> Coty
11/06/2014 at 13:43 |
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Do those ever die? I see a fair number, even out here in Land Of Ranch and Bro Trucks, and though some look like they've seen a lot of work, they just seem to go, and go, and go.
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Coty
> BoulderZ
11/06/2014 at 13:57 |
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This one is at 213k, but it's engine #2 and I don't know when that was swapped.
4.0L, 5 speed, 4WD with crank windows.
It gets used, too:
edu-petrolhead
> BoulderZ
11/06/2014 at 17:00 |
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In Brazil you could buy a kit to "bajafy" a Brasília:
Or simply do a common Baja conversion. Or you could also make a Baja Coffin Joe
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BoulderZ
> edu-petrolhead
11/06/2014 at 17:01 |
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Like I needed more reasons to go visit Brazil. :)