Hi, have not been here for awhile, so here is my project.
The Hebster52 is based on the remains of a 1952 split, and will be a replica of the Hebmüller number One.
Yes I know there are people out there yelling and screaming, OMG, he's cut up a split!!! But if you look at the start picture I think there is not that many of you that would even have thought about using anything of it.
This is where it started...
Inner strenghtening:
Here is a Photoshopped pic of my vision:
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I say bravo on undertaking such a visionary project. Keep us all posted with photos of the build. I'm sure others out there would love to see the blow by blow beetle to heb conversion in photo detail.
Thanks. Yes as soon as I get my own homepage I will post up the whole process.
I know Randy's Heb repro too. It is nice car too. We have been discussing some details regarding the cabframe. His car is based on a -64 beetle. My Hebster is based on a -52 and will be registered as a -52 (Hebmullers were built between 1949 and 1953)
Lovin the way that looks. I've been tossin that idea around for my car since I want to make it a 2 seat coupe. I want to remove the package tray & move the firewall forward so I can mount a dune buggy turbo system over the transaxle. Using a hood on the back would give me full acess as well as look pretty sweet.
I have a donor car, just have to go cut the parts I need.
Lookin at your pics, I can see you had to widen it about 4-5cm. Any progress on the hood? I'm wondering how many mods this will need to fit properly.
I dig all cars, whether old, new, hammered out of Japanese tin cans, American iron, or German steel.
Rides:
70 Volksrod "The Black Bomber"
12 Jetta 2.5
56 GMC 370 "Tater"
07 Avalanche
20 Cherokee Trialhawk
05' Harley FLHTCUI
The prjekt was down between 2000-2004 because we sold our first house and had to move out. We sold the house so we could start building our drean house.
Finally last year I was able to bring the Hebster 52 to its new garage and start working on it again. Not as efficiently as earlier because our family also had become one member bigger. We now have one three year old VW-nut too in our family...
Here is a picture of the floorpan after I replaced the cracked original framehead. I also mounted double fuellines for the FI inside the tunnel when i cut the framehead. You also see my widened stock 6,5x16 inch rear wheels..
Here the body finally is released from the temporary shelter and the borrowed 1963 floorpan it has beens sitting on untill May 2005...
Cool project. I thought I would send a few pics of my wifes car. I started with similar intentions as you but as you can see I got side tracked and went a bit astray. [/img]
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