well... basically, it was a project purchased by one family member from another to be a father/son project, and it was towed to a friend's house so he could work on it... seems like the car sat a bit, the father / son moved to another state, couldn't take the car... several years later the friend decided it wasn't such a nice lawn ornament and told father that car needed to be sold, or moved... father no longer interested, son no longer interested, so he said to sell it to settle the tow bill... father calls mother, mother calls daughter, daughter happens to be kellie's friend, who knows I'm a bit of a VW guy... and 5 days later my neighbor and I drive 45min over to friend's house, load the bug onto a trailer and pay the friend his $50.
So... now I have a 1974 sunbug in my driveway that's 95% all there... needs floors, 2 tires, upholstery, a stock exhaust... and possibly transmission work (daughter thought uncle had mentioned something about the transmission at one point) and it should be driveable, after I get it to run... (to make it driveable, not pretty) the body is actually pretty solid with only a couple of soft spots in the heater channel and lower fender mounting areas, it's had a respray with crappy gold and you can see the nicer original gold underneath, and the right side door was replaced w/ a red one at some point (RED!! first the scirocco, then then the cabriolet, now the beetle) I have the bumpers, they were inside it. a bit bent but present. It's supposed to have the pressed steel "sport" wheels but it only has one as a spare.
what makes it a sunbug:
gold.
sunroof.
brown interior w/ cloth inserts.
wood grain on dash.
kaemi center console w/ woodgrain inserts.
missing: sunbug shift knob. (extremely elusive from what I gather)
sunbug logo on rear lid... typically dealer installed. (this had a VW one, MIA now)
just another project to put on the back burner... but I'm already smitten with it, maybe because my first car was a '74 beetle. Anywho... I don't have any dough to put into it, but I can wait.
