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Congrats! I'm still waiting - what are they up to for numbers ? Thanks!
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After almost two years, the CMP came through...
Re-arsenaled in Anniston in October '76. Ithaca slide, Remington Rand frame, and Flannery barrel (which could be appropriate for either the Ithaca or RR from '44-45).
Reparking has taken its toll on the frame markings but the slide rollmark looks pretty good. Haven't detail stripped it yet, but it looks like all GI parts except possibly the recoil spring plug (the color is right, but it's serrated, not checkered) and the "Made in Italy" mag.
Gave it some quick oil and function checked it--no problems. Trigger is "good military"--breaks around 5 3/4 lbs after noticeable creep, but consistent and not gritty.
Not my first GI 1911, but the first one with a "certificate of authenticity." (Oh, and it doesn't rattle nearly as much as the one I was issued in the 80's!)
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Bought it for the wife actually. It's identical to her first car. Pretty solid, but gonna take me a few months to get it back on the road and pretty for her.
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That's awesome. My buddy in college had a baby blue one - miss throwing empties over our shoulder into the well behind the back seat - we called it the "way back". lol.
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Bought it for the wife actually. It's identical to her first car. Pretty solid, but gonna take me a few months to get it back on the road and pretty for her.
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Congrats! I'm still waiting - what are they up to for numbers ? Thanks!
Mine was #14864 and I got the call Wednesday. Rumor is they're doing about 30/workday recently.
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R L Suehr
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Bought it for the wife actually. It's identical to her first car. Pretty solid, but gonna take me a few months to get it back on the road and pretty for her.
A Cabriolet baby! And it looks like a real beetle, one with torsion bars?
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Still 3,000+ to go for mine :( I understand the randomly generated numbers but frustrating I had my packet off day 1 that they started accepting and number in the 18,000's :(
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Mine was #14864 and I got the call Wednesday. Rumor is they're doing about 30/workday recently.
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A Cabriolet baby! And it looks like a real beetle, one with torsion bars?
Yep
It's all original with a few exceptions. Owners grandfather drove it off the lot in '73. Was his car for his last 30 years and then inherited by his grandson. He replaced the top and did a few updrades to the motor and exhaust. It's been sitting a few years now, so it'll need some rust repair underneath.
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Bought it for the wife actually. It's identical to her first car. Pretty solid, but gonna take me a few months to get it back on the road and pretty for her.
Awesome, good luck with it. A '69 Beetle was my first car bought in '76 and drove it for six years. They're neat cars in a way that you'll only appreciate after working on them. I'm thinking that that could be a Ghia with coil springs on the front? Parts might be hard to source nowadays but they were plentiful when I was tooling with it. Do you have any experience with them? How's the floor pan? That's the Achilles heel on them.
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Awesome, good luck with it. A '69 Beetle was my first car bought in '76 and drove it for six years. They're neat cars in a way that you'll only appreciate after working on them. I'm thinking that that could be a Ghia with coil springs on the front? Parts might be hard to source nowadays but they were plentiful when I was tooling with it. Do you have any experience with them? How's the floor pan? That's the Achilles heel on them.
Super Beetles were the ones with coil springs. The Karmann Ghia had a different body.