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Lots of Parts From Bloomington, IL- $350 - fenders, hood, doors, and milk crates full of stuff...........
Parts Bug and Other Parts From Yates City, IL- $250 - 1966 parts beetle, hoods, truck lids, doors, glass, misc parts...........

Stripping Beetle Part 1- Pictures with the top pulled off and leaves and sticks cleaned up
Stripping Beetle Part 2- Pictures with the seats pulled out, inside cleaned up, bumpers and fenders removed
Stripping Beetle Part 3- Pictures of the car with the doors removed
Stripping Beetle Part 4- Pictures of the body being removed from the chassis
Stripping Beetle Part 4- Pictures of the front end of the body being removed

Engine / Transmission- Our 350 Chevy V8 engine, and 200r4 Chevy Trans for our Hot Rod Beetle.

Engine Part 1- Pictures of the Donor Vehicle
Engine Part 2- Pictures of the engine getting pulled
Engine Part 3- Pictures of the engine cleaned up, painted, and getting put back together
Engine Part 4- More pictures of the engine painted with more parts put back on it.
Transmission Part 1- Pictures of the 200R4 Transmission I got for the beetle.
Transmission Part 2- Swapping the TH-350 trans for the 200R4 trans, and moved the engine back, and installed the drive shaft.

Chassis Part 1- Pictures of the Donor S-10 and the bed pulled off and half a beetle on the chassis
Chassis Part 2- More pictures of the s-10 getting stripped down
Chassis Part 3- Pictures of the chassis stripped down
Chassis Part 4- Pictures of me "eye-balling" the body on the chassis after stripping it.
Chassis Part 5- Shortening the chassis and new leaf springs.
Chassis Part 6- Pictures of the body sitting on the shortend chassis.
Chassis Part 7- Pictures of the engine mount adaptors I made.
Chassis Part 8- Pictures of the front end being torn down, cleaned up and rebuilt UPDATED 5-3-10!
Chassis Part 9- Pictures of the front end being cleaned up, sand blasted, primed with Master Series silver, and undercoated with Hurculiner UPDATED 8-14-10!
Chassis Part 10- Pictures of the front end being reassembled UPDATED 11-22-10