Barnfinds are still possible

DarenO

Picture taken from mymarque.com and being a VW fan i thought i'd share with the guys here, unfortunately i can't claim to be the lucky person to have found this car.

Regards
Darren

carchaeologist

Nice,very nice....looks like a limerick county reg on it.

Abelloid

Yep, Limerick reg.

It' went straight to UK, why I don't know - it's a ****ter and the best part of it is probably the identity.

carchaeologist

JustinOval wrote: »

Yep, Limerick reg.

It' went straight to UK, why I don't know - it's a ****ter and the best part of it is probably the identity.

When did it go to the uk?Pity that alright...

Abelloid

April -

http://www.volkszone.co.uk/VZi/showthread.php?t=449537

carchaeologist

The reg is actually ZU****,53/54 Dublin


Man shes ragged!!!

Abelloid

Ah, sorry - I knew it was buried in Limerick and presumed the reg was local.

carchaeologist

The pic oof the sunken beetle further on in the thread is kinda sad....:(

Abelloid

It has been restored, just needs a little finishing - electrics etc.

carchaeologist

JustinOval wrote: »

It has been restored, just needs a little finishing - electrics etc.

The oval,or the orange GT?

Abelloid

carchaeologist wrote: »

The oval,or the orange GT?

LOL the Gt

VWPowered

wicked find, shame about the GT that looks well clean, the oval well thats gonna take some serious smoothing:D

Coxy_VW

carchaeologist wrote: »

The pic oof the sunken beetle further on in the thread is kinda sad....:(

It's mine

It's nearly finished now after a full body off resto.

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carchaeologist

Excellent work there coxy!!!!Im hugely impressed!!:D:D

Coxy_VW

Thanks. I'm very happy with it. I've a few 70's accessories to go onto it yet. It's being rewired now and after that the 1835cc engine is going in.

carchaeologist

Coxy_VW wrote: »

1835cc engine is going in.

Brum Brum:D!!That should make some car of it!!

Coxy_VW

Yeah, with the original GT box it should be a quick car

drunkmonkey

That's a work of art, one of the nicest red beetles i've seen, great work Coxy....very impressed...:cool:

carchaeologist

Has the GT box got better ratios than standard?

Coxy_VW

drunkmonkey wrote: »

That's a work of art, one of the nicest red beetles i've seen, great work Coxy....very impressed...:cool:

Cheers. It's not perfect but I like it.

Coxy_VW

carchaeologist wrote: »

Has the GT box got better ratios than standard?

The gearbox had a higher final ratio which would go part of the way in explaining the improvement in performance.

carchaeologist

Coxy_VW wrote: »

The gearbox had a higher final ratio which would go part of the way in explaining the improvement in performance.

Thanks for that,i presume its the 1600 box its based on,sorry for the amatuer questions!!

gfwd

I must admit to having no interest in Beetles but I was walking down a mews in the Ballsbridge area a couple of years ago and there was some building work going on at the back of a house on Waterloo Road. The garage door was open and there was a Beetle there under a blanket. I don't remember the reg but it was certainly an early sixties one and judging by the tyres etc it had been sitting there a good 20 years. Nothing like a good garage find!

arnoudodw

Dear all,

For the people who are really interested in special barnfinds this is maybe an interesting site:

www.extraordinarycarcollections.com

It goes about the famous Dovaz collection and the Schlumpf collection including Arlette Schlumpf reserve collection.

I hope I can interest you.

Best regards

Kevin_Herron

The famous 'Sleeping Beauties'.

Two of the most elusive classic car collections in the world. I cant wait for the book later this year!

They are two collections that I've always been keen to know more about.

There is a good book called 'The Cobra in the Barn'.
It has a comprehensive story of the sale of the Shakespeare Bugatti collection to Fritz Schumplf.

MercMad

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

The famous 'Sleeping Beauties'.

Two of the most elusive classic car collections in the world. I cant wait for the book later this year!

They are two collections that I've always been keen to know more about.

There is a good book called 'The Cobra in the Barn'.
It has a comprehensive story of the sale of the Shakespeare Bugatti collection to Fritz Schumplf.

..............yeah thats a good book, the other one in the series is good too. They are well written, in fact its funny that last year whilst recovering from an operation I was sent those two books to read and it got me thinking about barnfinds in Ireland.

Then out of the blue a friend of mine rang me up about a modern car and whilst chatting he mentioned his father in law had an old P5B he wanted rid off. There it was, in the garage since 1978, on blocks, original Dublin reg !

I posted elswhere about that !

Kevin_Herron

What ever became of that Rover?

I think the other book is called The hemi in the barn.

There are cars still out there! No doubt about it!

hotchip24

the old bug was amazing to be still there and it defo true that there are loads of old cars still in hiding. I advertised looking for a fiat 126 engine back in 1994 and a woman phoned me up from foxrock telling me she had a 126 in her garage. I went to see it, it was a 1959 fiat 600 and it pretty good nick. she told me I could have it if I gave her a pound for every year I was born, I was 15 then!

who ever owns the orange bug, man thats beautiful, can kinda see the front seats, look v compfortable, well done!

carchaeologist

hotchip24 wrote: »

the old bug was amazing to be still there and it defo true that there are loads of old cars still in hiding. I advertised looking for a fiat 126 engine back in 1994 and a woman phoned me up from foxrock telling me she had a 126 in her garage. I went to see it, it was a 1959 fiat 600 and it pretty good nick. she told me I could have it if I gave her a pound for every year I was born, I was 15 then!

Did you buy!!Have you pics?

hotchip24

im sure i have photos some where, its over 13 years ago now so ill need to find a scanner to put them on first. spent my life going through the papers looking for old fiats. the scrap yard in killcock, tallons i think it was called was covered in classic fiats, beetles, vespas, have pics of that too. As soon as I find them, ill load them up.

carchaeologist

Sound as a bell!!:D

MercMad

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

What ever became of that Rover?

I think the other book is called The hemi in the barn.

There are cars still out there! No doubt about it!

...........yeah Hemi in the Barn is the other one, read that too !

The Rover is still there

galwaytt

hotchip24 wrote: »

the old bug was amazing to be still there and it defo true that there are loads of old cars still in hiding. I advertised looking for a fiat 126 engine back in 1994 and a woman phoned me up from foxrock telling me she had a 126 in her garage. I went to see it, it was a 1959 fiat 600 and it pretty good nick. she told me I could have it if I gave her a pound for every year I was born, I was 15 then!

who ever owns the orange bug, man thats beautiful, can kinda see the front seats, look v compfortable, well done!

aaah, jeebus.......reminds me of when I worked in a garage, on the pumps, after my Leaving, in 1984, nights, mostly.

Anyhoo, there was this house had a nice 600 too, in off-white. Eventually, it fell out of use. Lo and behold, a couple of the local Howya's bought/whatever, and drove the crap out of it. Not too bad.

However, one Fri night it turned up and.........ohmisgungod, what have they done !! They cut off the entire top of it, and welded in a (scaffold) rollcage, and proceeded to wreck it in a local field over the course of a few days.............sacrilege, sacrilege..........:(