{"id":3,"date":"2008-08-10T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2008-08-20T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T13:06:15","slug":"the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"The beginning,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where to start?<br \/>\nMy beetle is a German 1968 Beetle with the Auto Stick option.<br \/>\nIt is running a 1600 twin port stock motor (1969 going by the engine number).<br \/>\nI got this beetle back in 1993, she was a daily driver until 2006 where I purchased a newer car. From 2006 till now she has sat in the shed getting a drive on the weekends. I always had the plan to restore her but money never really permitted this, and every time I was ready to do something she would get hit by another car (100% of the time a ford :P). See picture where she was repaired from one of the many cars driving over her nose.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/old.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4\" title=\"old beetle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/old.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/old.jpg 581w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/old-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>To the present I knew the beetle was in good condition no rust visible, at the same time she is still damaged from a guy who hit the front. (Don\u2019t ask about insurance I was insured but it didn\u2019t make a difference I never saw any money). I finally got enough money together to start restoring her, or should I say improving her.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where to start? My beetle is a German 1968 Beetle with the Auto Stick option. It is running a 1600 twin port stock motor (1969 going by the engine number). I got this beetle back in 1993, she was a daily driver until 2006 where I purchased a newer car. From 2006 till now she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[30,31,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}