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My new ride, with pics....


Went to London and bought this last weekend!


1967 VW Beetle 1600cc, RHD, professionally rebuilt (Lou Barrow, Protomotive Engineering of Tonbridge) as a customised Hebmuller replica in 1998. The car has only done 8,000 miles since then. It was one of the show cars at the 98 Volksworld show following completion of a painstaking 6 year rebuild all the way from the chassis upwards completed in 1998.

The car has always been garaged and has been off the road in dry storage from 1999 until this year. Hence low mileage since rebuild – since acquisition in 1998 the car has done approx 1500 miles.

All new steel or aluminium panels (not fibreglass), many of which were custom made especially for this Hebmuller conversion. The full technical details of the specialist rebuild were published in two separate magazine articles in Volksworld (Sept 1997) and VW Trends (Feb 1998). I have both magazines and remember reading about this years ago!

Rebuilt 1600 CC engine with twin carbs and gearbox fitted as part of rebuild.

Beautiful metallic silver paintwork, excellent condition bodywork with no corrosion and matching metallic silver colour coded Empi alloys. Navy blue mohair hood. Recarro seats with Bench seat in back.
Kenwood CD, alarm. 6 speaker sound system.
Lowered suspension. 5 porsche dials on custom made fascia. Fully custom made and retrimmed blue interior and carpets.

Car is just serviced and came with 12months MOT. Road Tax exempt. Runs beautifully and all set for the summer. Recent new wheel bearings.

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If it was meant to go fast, it would not have been built brick shaped!
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Here are the magazine articles....

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My driveway is starting to look like a showground!!! emoticon
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Very nice, love the driveway design as well!!! emoticon emoticon emoticon emoticon
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Thank you! My mate did it for me but it wasn't cheap! Took a while as well as he did it 'out of hours' for me! Still i'm really happy with the end result!

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NICE!!!....you lucky swine!!!

Oh hell yeah i'm there just to sit in the passenger seat of course!!

Hope the mini funkmistress is doin well!!

Prob see you at Expo!!

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August 1967 - Devon Caravette
November 1967 - 1200 Beetle
1968 - 1200 Beetle
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looking good red. you do like your arty farty pics down on the seafront dont you. mind you it does make the heb look ubber cool. emoticon
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What can I say that hasn't been said already emoticon

Looking forward to seeing it and the new born at somepoint, not in that order Dohh! Shut up...I'm making it worse emoticon
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wait till one of the little darlings leaves a nice big oil puddle on the drive ----- then its off to bed with no water for you ????? emoticon emoticon emoticon
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Hey, very nice. I'll give you a grand for it ? emoticon
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