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Hi, have not been here for awhile, so here is my project.


The Hebster52 is based on the remains of a 1952 split, and will be a replica of the Hebmüller number One.

Yes I know there are people out there yelling and screaming, OMG, he's cut up a split!!! But if you look at the start picture I think there is not that many of you that would even have thought about using anything of it.

This is where it started...


Inner strenghtening:


Here is a Photoshopped pic of my vision:

i dont likes where it is, but i likes where its heading!

I say bravo on undertaking such a visionary project. Keep us all posted with photos of the build. I'm sure others out there would love to see the blow by blow beetle to heb conversion in photo detail.

Read on ....Donald

http://www.oldbug.com/heb.htm

Thanks. Yes as soon as I get my own homepage I will post up the whole process.

I know Randy's Heb repro too. It is nice car too. We have been discussing some details regarding the cabframe. His car is based on a -64 beetle. My Hebster is based on a -52 and will be registered as a -52 (Hebmullers were built between 1949 and 1953)

Soon she will be released from the Barn after 3 years of beauty sleep.
(Darn new house building...)

Took some new photos:

Lovin the way that looks. I've been tossin that idea around for my car since I want to make it a 2 seat coupe. I want to remove the package tray & move the firewall forward so I can mount a dune buggy turbo system over the transaxle. Using a hood on the back would give me full acess as well as look pretty sweet.
I have a donor car, just have to go cut the parts I need.

Lookin at your pics, I can see you had to widen it about 4-5cm. Any progress on the hood? I'm wondering how many mods this will need to fit properly.

I like it.. I hope it works out... I was kinda think the same as you....

Maybe some thing like this?

BTW here is a link to my new Homepage:
Hebster's Homepage

I love the coral and silver "speedster" looking concept...friggin beautiful.

Oooh, who did those little illustrations? Somebody has a nice touch...

A little update. Been awhile since the last...

The prjekt was down between 2000-2004 because we sold our first house and had to move out. We sold the house so we could start building our drean house.

Finally last year I was able to bring the Hebster 52 to its new garage and start working on it again. Not as efficiently as earlier because our family also had become one member bigger. We now have one three year old VW-nut too in our family...

Here is a picture of the floorpan after I replaced the cracked original framehead. I also mounted double fuellines for the FI inside the tunnel when i cut the framehead. You also see my widened stock 6,5x16 inch rear wheels..


Here the body finally is released from the temporary shelter and the borrowed 1963 floorpan it has beens sitting on untill May 2005...



And here you now see how far I am for the moment.

Here is a few pics when it was rolled out last summer.




The Dash, starterbutton and gearknob for it.


I also bought a pre-49 speedo for it and started to make repro pre-49 taillights for it.

Cool project. I thought I would send a few pics of my wifes car. I started with similar intentions as you but as you can see I got side tracked and went a bit astray.


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