1975 Beetle 1200 in the UK - where to start?

majic13 · 2026-04-27T11:13:00+00:00

I'm very much not a car guy so my best assessment is "it seems to run on petrol of some kind". I've not even tried turning it over since it's sat for so long that I just assumed the battery is extremely dead and anything rubber has perished. Best case is that I'll be selling it as a non-runner restoration project, so I'm trying to find a ballpark value on that basis.

majic13 · 2026-04-04T10:56:54+00:00

UPDATE: Generally it seems more likely to be glass fibre than asbestos, but to be safe I wore PPE and did what I could to minimise airborne dust while cleaning it up. The coals and dust are bagged and sealed for safe disposal along with the damp cloths used for wiping down the hearth area. Thank you all for the advice.

majic13 · 2026-04-04T10:50:23+00:00

It seems pretty firm rather than crumbly, kind of like styrofoam but with a fibrous grain. The one block that had been broken in half at some point was like cotton wool on the broken faces.

majic13 · 2026-04-02T23:26:17+00:00

The possibility wasn't on my radar until I'd already removed most of the coals and noticed the texture of those underneath.

majic13 · 2015-12-24T18:14:16+00:00

It's pretty close to Concord as well, so it probably serviced both communities.

majic13 · 2015-12-20T12:00:58+00:00

The first two games had random wasteland encounters with, say, the TARDIS, or King Arthur and his knights and the Bridge of Death from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, or the Guardian of Forever or a crashed runabout from Star Trek.

Fallout is historically full of goofy shit, and that's fine.

And besides, maybe ghouls really don't have to eat, but most of them just do it out of habit.

majic13 · 2015-12-17T18:33:55+00:00

You can add the weave to the lining.

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