The 1966 VW Beetle Forum

I pulled my distributor to give it a good cleaning and noticed that the fiber washer was not located inside the housing, rather it was external with two steel washers. The third steel washer was inside where the fiber washer was supposed to be (at least from the exploded diagrams I've been using!). ...

fatalifeaten wrote:Looks like it's in good shape, what do you need to restore?

Mainly rust. New upholstery. New rubber, plastic, etc. Every fender is dinged and dented. The chrome bumpers have a few dings.

I have a 300+ lb brother-in-law. When he sat in the passenger seat the pan fell through to the ground!

I was looking for forums that could help with mechanical questions. I had first searched Google using VOLKSWAGON FORUMS and the first two results had so ads that my browser crashed at both site.

When I used 66 BEETLE FORUMS for my next search, I happened upon the best result!

I bought this '66 locally from a friend about five years ago. He had bought the auto from the original owner about a year prior to that. The original owner had purchased the car in Germany on 12, April 1966. The car came with the original German sales receipt from Ernst Islinger Motorfahrzeuge. I ha...

Hey folks! New member checking in from New Port Richey, Florida. My name is Nick. I bought a '66 a few years back in hopes of restoring her to tip-top shape. Since then the auto has been sitting in my garage gathering dust :( I plan to get working on her soon, and I had found this site while browsin...