Tallulah Beetlebug

Archive: March 2022

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Back at it this weekend. I've got replacement headlight buckets to be mounted. Rusty screws It's nasty back in there Brake Kleened Tight fit on that bottom mounting screw Broken plastic Hella SB12 That's factree. Another tight fit on the bottom mounting screw You can tell in t...

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As I was poking around, I finally found an actual rust hole. If this is as bad as it gets, then the old girl is doing pretty OK. This is at the top left corner above the engine bay, behind the air vent louvers. Not even sure how you would get up in there to fix it. Next, the h...

Spare tire, well...

The car didn't come with a spare tire, but did come with four "spare" rims and tires, the Empi wheels shown in the listing pictures. I had been carrying one of those wheels in the front trunk, but had to lay it down horizontally on top of the gas tank. The tires that were moun...

Steering wheel stuff

The steering wheel is in pretty good shape, considering the age, but there are some cracks that I couldn't stop absentmindedly picking at while driving. Shopped around online and found the old school lace up vinyl steering wheel cover (Amazon link). It was so cheap and chintzy...

An oil filter, you say?

Somehow, I owned this car for two weeks before I realized it had a screw on canister oil filter, which was not from the factory. I snapped some blurry pictures from a blind angle up under the rear of the car to try and find some more details. It appears to be an Empi Full Flow...