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Every body do know the Alabama song… this is the real thing…:)

State of Alabama is not my normal buying territory but due of circumstances I ended up with this car…:)

its a pretty good and complete car, it needs a little rust repair, but really a little, and can a complete mechanical “gone through” because its stands for a while..

as pictures tell You more as a thousand words we made another set of honest pictures for You to evaluate.

Body lines are good and straight, the car has still its good structure, what’s very important for a convertible…

a cool look, whatever You like Yellow or not, its a lemon, and we do love seventies colors, this is really “your typical”

dash is all complete and unmolested, a nice start to whatever, a driver or a total resto project…

seats are ready to seat 4….:)

woohoo, the steering wheel is looking for drivers!

we do like aerial shots, we couldn’t resist this one…

Engine is all complete, we didn’t touch the car mechanical wise, we didn’t fire it up, we can make it a full serviced driver as per request of buyer, in that case we will do at cost.
Front trunk has a nice carpet set, and the “souvenir” Alabama plate”.. part of its history….:)

Front clip don’t show any old collision damage…

This baby need a little rust repair as stated at the top… but its only repair and no replacement,; two small corners and one small repair in the front to the chassis rail, that’s all we could find so far, in general the undercarriage looks all like this…

Headliner is still ok, but outer hood needs replacement as there is a couple of holes,

This is a perfect car for a new hobby, or as a first VW… convertibles for the prices of sedans are rather rare, especially in this pure condition. This Amlabama candy is priced to sell, very economicly…. our suggestion is to make it a driver, enjoy it, when You really like it in a couple of years You can still restore it…

all further information, pricing and or more  pictures are most easy to obtain through my email on Bob@BBT4vw.com

For this Sunday you deserved some cool music, music from a workshop, because we’re all car guys and we do love workshops… Click on the video above to play and enjoy, enjoy as much as I did!

Happy sunday! 

Koen is an assigned Beetle lover who has spent all his hard earned money to nothing more or less than acquiring, restoration and driving his Beetles.  This 1969 model Beetle came in @ the BBT workshop in 2003 for some minor finishing welding jobs.  Once we started to inspect the works that were done, we discovered something went wrong while someone previously made the job as a friends service to Koen.  The whole body was thorn and when we placed the body on a chassis, the gap between body and chassis was about 50 mm.  Hard to seal with the original style body seal…  The rear apron and rear boot floor were fit in to tight and made the engine bay about 60 mm smaller… We even didn’t tried to fit in an engine.

The whole welding job has been done all over again. Koen’s love for this Beetle was so big, he didn’t even think about the fact to leave the project and track another Beetle. The previously done welding job has been done all over again with even bigger NOS panels to prevent to end up with a patchwork body.  Lots of NOS panels have been used while doing the job, in that time it wasn’t that hard to obtain the correct NOS panels @ reasonable prices to do the job.

After 2 years we could hand over a whole new 1969 Beetle to Koen and he pampered his Bug since than until last Weekend…  A roll-over made an end to this beautiful story and Koen is now on a quest for another body.