1970 Vw Beetle | Cruisin Classics

Good day all. Welcome back to Cruising Classics YouTube channel, where today we have for you a 1970 Volkswagen Beetle convertible. And this is a cool little love bug from the early, early 1970s. Dressed in two-tone paint and looking just stunningly nice. Paint job on this bug is very high quality. Very, very nice. Deep rich blue. Accented by a really nice soft cream on the sides. With plenty of bright work to liven it all up. This was a nut and bolt restoration. We do have photos in the glove box of the car when it was all taken apart, all the way down to just the frame. Floorboards off. Everything got redone on this car. We don't know when. There is no date on the restoration. We do not have invoices to prove when it was done. But you can definitely see it was done in the pictures. And you can see the beautiful final product here before us today. Bright work, like I mentioned, looks spectacular. Front bumper, rear bumper, both in great shape, and both with their rubber guards intact and looking good. You can see we've got nice painted bumper supports and new body gap liners all over the car. Headlight bezels look really, really nice. As do the turn signal bezels. You can see yourself in them. They are absolutely gorgeous. Bright work continues up onto the hood spine and that really cool circular VW emblem. And I will come back shortly and open the front trunk, or frunk as they call it nowadays, and show you what's going on in there. Moving around to the side of this bug, a little more of it in the picture. You'll see we've got some awesome wheel and tire treatment. These are painted Rally wheels. You can see that cream there. Same as the body color. But then really nice Rally hubcaps on top of that with VW logos. And some Firestone whitewall tires by a supply. It is a four-wheel drum brake bug, which is more than enough power to stop that 49 or 47 horsepower engine. Again, you'll see that the bright work does look great. We've got really nice side mirrors. The body molding accent strip that travels down the side looks fantastic. Window trim looks really nice, brilliantly shining. Door handles are a match. Again, there's more of that great looking window trim. The running board. On both sides, the running boards are in great shape. Super sturdy, nice and solid. New rubber matting on them. New edge guards. They look great. And speaking of looking great, this convertible top has been replaced. Quite obviously, it looks like new. With a solid glass rear window. We've got no rips, no tears. A little bit of fold marks because we just had the top down and in its boot cover. So it looks a titch wrinkled at the moment. But a really nice top. Easy to put down, easy to put back up. I'll show you how that's done shortly. I'll try and do it one-handed while holding the camera. As we move around to the rear, you'll see that this is a pre-elephant foot taillight car. The elephant feet taillights, the great big ones, didn't happen until 73. Being a 70, we still got the small ones with the body color mounting on them. In 71, they did change the rear deck lid to having four sets of slots for ventilation. And down below, you'll see we've got some cool chrome tailpipes sticking out there. Give that VW a rumble. Let's take a look inside the engine compartment. I want you to see this really, really tidy engine bay they've got here. This is a 1600 four-cylinder single-carb engine. About as plain, simple, and easy to fix as you can get. And as you can see, it looks like new in here. So many parts have been replaced. It's topped off with a real nice chrome air cleaner. And everything about it says, I've been well sorted and taken care of. Got nice walls behind the engine. Everything looking just as it should. And this thing purrs like a sewing machine. Ticks right along. Not the fastest car on the road, but certainly one of the more dependable ones. Cruising around to the passenger side here, you'll see it's in exactly the same excellent shape as the driver's side. One thing I noted when I looked at the vehicle in depth, is it does have these nice new dew wipes which have been installed. And you'll see that even follows through over here on the little wing windows on the side. New window gaskets. Good stuff. It does have Karmann badging on it, being a convertible. You can stare and those look like new. And there's our gas fill on the passenger side in the front. And now that we're back up front, I'll pause briefly while I pop open the front trunk for you to take a look inside. We are back under the front trunk of the 1970 Volkswagen Beetle convertible. And you'll see here we have a full-size radial spare on a cream colored rally rim. Nice extra there. A factory jack, a factory tool kit, and some nice beige carpeting that matches what's inside the car. All together a neat and tidy presentation. The hoods on these cars do latch shut. And there is a opener switch in the glove box on the left-hand side wall to pop open the front trunk for security. As we open the driver's door, you'll see we have a luxuriously nice tan interior. That's a good looking bug interior there. Door cards look brand new. No wear whatsoever. Handles look new. Window cranks are in great condition. Both sides have storage pouches. I'll show you the passenger side over there. Looking the same. Very nice and new. And look at those seats. Definitely recovered in OEM correct vinyl. They look just like they would have in 71 or 70 rather. Nice and fresh and new now though. Great feel to them. Nice and soft and comfortable. As we hop inside, you'll see it's your typical bug interior here. We've got the nice soft white headliner underneath of the convertible top. Some carpeting in the back storage area. And the back seat looks really nice too. And you'll see those are newer seat belts both front and back. Done in tan. There's the seat belts up front. You'll see the carpet in here. Real nice. Matches what's up in the front trunk. And between the seats we've got an aftermarket shifter to give you kind of a sporty feel. With a nice black boot. From the driver's perspective, you've got an original style two-spoke Volkswagen steering wheel. With a horn ring and a Wolfsburg edition center cap. We've got a 90 mile an hour speedometer. Try getting up to 90. With a fuel gauge and an odometer and a couple of warning lights. That's pretty much the frills you get in a Volkswagen bug. But that's okay. The simplicity of them is what is a huge part of the charm. Over here on the main dash, you've got emergency lights. You've got your regular light switch. And a nice JVC AM FM CD stereo for your cruising tunes. It sounds good. Looks nice. Fits well in the dash. Air vent controls. And there's your shift pattern indicator. Over on the passenger side, there's a grab handle. For going around corners a little too fast. And inside the glove box, this is the lever that operates the front trunk. You'll see other than that, it's just a normal glove box. Without further ado, I'm going to start this VW up and let you hear her purr. All right. I've been giving this car two pumps before I start it. Here's the horn. Charming. You'll see the stereo hopped right too. Going through this little load up here. We're designed to be ready for anything. Sound comes from the speaker located in the dash. Sounds really good. 47 horsepower in this Volkswagen. It will get out of its own way, but it's not going to set any speed records. That's for sure. But with a Volkswagen Bug Convertible, it's not about speed. It's about having fun with the top down. You cannot drive this car without it putting a smile on your face. Now I'm going to attempt to put the top down. Not sure about putting it back up while holding the phone, but I'm going to put it down. Over here on the side are handles. You'll watch it undo the little hook. Oh, you have to press in on that. There we go. Undoes the hook. There we go. Hooks out. Now let's do the other side. And you push it up on the little latch. And now the top is loosened up. Step out of the car and I'm going to one arm it. Right back to its spot. Now when the top is down, we have a boot cover for it. Same color, same material as the convertible top. And it does look great on the car. The only reason I'm not going to put it on right now is because I'm going to put the top right back up for you. Just to show you how easy it is. One person can do it one-handed. I'll make the attempt to do it here while holding the phone. Oh yeah, that'll work. Okay. Well, it's going to take two hands to do it, folks. I'm going to pause real briefly. I'll be right back. And we are back. I've got the top latched again. We'll go ahead and put our visors back up. Latched over there. Just kind of tough to do with one hand while you're holding the phone trying to aim it at it. But all together, a really quick, easy operation for the top. Works just as it should. You'll see it snug as a bug on a bug. Folks, if you've got any questions about this 1970 Volkswagen Beetle convertible, give us a call here in Columbus at Cruising Classics. Our number is 614-276-7355. We're happy to answer any questions you got about this awesome little bug. We can help you with financing. We can help you get it transported from our garage to your garage in an enclosed carrier. Nice and safe from the elements. Again, give us a call here at Cruising Classics in Columbus, Ohio. 614-276-7355. Thanks for joining us. We'll be back again tomorrow with something else cool.