First Test Drive Chassis & Engine - 1965 VW Beetle Restoration

Definition of "Can't wait to drive it" . That's a proper restoration ! Loving the videos

Back in the 70’s, my history teacher owned a VW dune buggy made from car kit. It was pretty cool looking with an open fiberglass body. He drove it to school every day, rain or shine. He said the one downside is that large dogs would chase him and one dog tried to jump into the driver’s side. He had to use his left forearm to push the dog back out.

This gives "air cooled" a whole new meaning!

Whole new meaning to 1st drive.

Pretty sweet CT. I’m just gonna keep saying it. Gettin’ er done. BTW I’m excited to announce I finally reached 1 thousand subscribers! Pretty stoked. Took me forever. Gonna be posting a lot of videos this summer. Can’t wait to see when you put the body back on!!!!

Hi. John from Norway. I`m 58 years old. Back in 1976 I was 12 years old and I met this wonderful weichle first time. We had only 3 boring channels on TV and boring radio. No ATV veichles. No cellphones or Internet. No Nothing for fun exept old mopeds. But there was old VW`s. So remove 30-40 bolts and we had what we called a VW Go cart.... Also called a `flundre`of its fish shape. It was totally dangerous FUN driving. Imagine bunch of young teenagers with no licence and tons of adrenaline roaring these things in remote roads. ( I never told my parents what we were doing). Dangerous and sometimes it went bad. But I survived and think back on the youth friendship and fun we had together with our `TOY`... Lethal toy.. Now over 40 years later I found by chance a VW project that will be like what we had fun with in late 70`s.

Neighbours .... "Mary!!!! It's CT doing his thing again ... call the cops, will ya! .... wait, can you drill in the passenger seat?"

Florida man doing Florida man things!! Love it!!

My brain smells what my eyes see and what my ears hear. Thank you for this full size experience. Wonderful work. A real dream.

Ok CT….I am only half way through this video….but I gotta say “so entertaining “Some kind of adult go cart mentality”. I don’t know? What I do know is that “its not gonna be perfect….just eyeball it a little bit”!! This is why I love your channel CT.

CT your over the hump on this job... rest should be eeeazy!

Nothing sketchy here at all! :hand-orange-covering-eyes: Well done. 👍

Love it. Im in the UK and if I did this I would have been in a whole load of trouble. Best wishes to you.

O man. This video brings back memories for me. A friend of mine got a 1966/67 beatle chassis from a scrapyard, someone already took the body off. This was around mid 80 ties. It had two seats, no belts, and NO BRAKES. And no body. Just a very underperforming handbreak was the only way to stop this contraption,. Somehow we got it running with the help of the local garage. O boy. That thing (only the chassis) was peppy!! I drove this deathtrap and flooring it until third gear on back roads where no traffic ever came. Which was a good thing, as i had no BRAKES to speak of! But hey, when you are 17, anything goes. That engine made a glorious whoohsing sound, when revving up (and flying) through the gears. Only a single port, but that seat really pushed in my back when fully accelerating. It was great fun... I had way, way too much fun. And lived to tell. My friend only sat in the passengerseat once. I think you can understand why... Great job on the restoration!

Love this video. Bringing back a legend is an amazing feat. So much work that people do not see. Im glad the cops did not swing by during the road test!

Get a Berg shifter! You won’t regret it. Also. Cool video!

Cool, it's a VW kart ! good job CT !

That wasn't the most sensible thing in the world to do - but it certainly looked fun 😀

hey CT this gives a whole new meaning to 'air cooled'

now thats a proper Go cart which you can bring your friends with