Car details

Owner:

Sven Zimmermann, Büttelborn

Type:

117, VW 1200 Export

Year:

1960

color:

Gulf Blue L390

Body:

Sun roof, white turn signal glasses

Interior:

Stock seats, white and grey synthetic leather, clipboard underneath the dashboard, Gene Berg shifter, VDO tach, oil temperature and oil pressure gauges

Engine:

Type 1, 2110cc, AS41 injection case, tie-rods, lightened Scat flywheel, eightfold doweled, Kennedy pressure plate and Gene Berg clutch disc, 82 mm forged Scat crankshaft, forged 90.5 mm Mahle pistons and barrels with Total Seal rings, 044 CB Performance CNC Oval Port cylinder heads revised by Udo Becker, 42 mm inlet and 37.5 mm outlet valves by Manley, HD valve springs, 1.4:1 Scat rocker arms, 59g Wizemann lifters, FK 10 Engle camshaft, straight cut Magnum cam gears, compression ratio 10.5:1, short Berg-style manifolds by Udo Becker, two 48 IDA Weber carbs, Race Trim gas linkage, blue Holley fuel pump with pressure regulator and 8 mm fuel hose, Mallory distributor, MSD 6AL ignition system with Blaster 2 coil, 41 mm Gene Berg merged header and Magna Flow muffler, 1.5 liter oil sump, HD 26 mm oil pump, full flow system with FRAM HP1 filter, thermostat and 520 mm oil cooler, Berg breather and Claudes Buggies breather box

Transmission:

Rancho Pro-Street Type 1 swing axle, super-diff, HD side plates, welded synchronizer ring, steel shift-forks, HD feather keys, 3.78 1., 2.06 2., 1.26 3., 0,89 4., 4.125 ring/pinion, Rhino transmission mounts, HD mountings

Chassis:

Adjustable front beam with JKM lowering kit, 16 mm anti-roll bar, stock height on rear end, stock shocks front and rear

Brakes:

Stock, drums

Wheels/tires:

Original Empi Sprint Stars in 4Jx15 front, rear in 5.5Jx15, Firestone tires in 145-15 front, rear in 205/70-15, spare steel wheel in 4.5Jx15 with Firestone 155-15

History:

Sven bought the 1200 at the end of 1996 from it's second owner. Until today it has remainedunwelded and still wears mainly it's first paintjob. Until 2003 Sven drove the bug in stock condition, then first modifications towards Cal Look took place. Since a Californa trip during his vacation in 2004, Sven is completely going for the west coast style, so he took the opportunity to go shopping in the States. IDAs, Scat crankshaft and rods, Mahle pistons and barrels and a FK10 camshaft went along with him back to Germany.

Best 1/4 mile ET:

14.080 seconds @ 95.74 mph

Feature(s):

Käfer Revue 1/04 (GER)

Thanks to:

CSP
DFL VW Club
Ingmar Lang
Markus Gerhardt
Prakti
Steve Beecher
Udo Becker
Wilfried Wittkuhn

Last update:

07/06/2022