Good morning Rosie, all!
Good luck with the realtor!
I keep going out to the shop and looking at the Beetle. Several times a day I just go out there and hang out looking at it, trying to figure where to begin. Here's what I think...
On the Beetle forum, they talk about things they've found in their Beetles...anything from money, pot and so on. Many of them that got their cars from fields like me have found Black Widows in there!! And my car is really bad inside...grass has grown up into it and the carpet is rotted.
So my priority is cleaning out the car! However, I don't want to clean it out inside the shop...I'd just soon roll it out into the shop driveway and do it out there. I want to take the seats out and discard all the old upholstery and then really clean the interior. The horsehair padding is just falling all apart. Also take out all the old carpet and rubber matting.
Problem. The brakes are almost froze up...very sluggish. So we can't roll it in and out of the shop. I got some tips from the Beetle forum on how to loosen them up, so I imagine we'll be working on that this weekend.
Got the title yesterday! We're bona fide, now!
You're just hopin' to find some pot. ;~D
Jeepers, we really should start a new thread....
Do you mean the brakes are frozen in the 'on' position? If not, you should be able to put the car in nuetral and roll it in and out, shouldn't you. You could put chocks in front and behind the wheels to keep it from rolling away while on the driveway.
Would a 'bug bomb' kill the black widows and other critters before you worked on it? Obviously, you'd want to wait until the car is outside to use one of those.;o)
Lemme guess, the Duchess 2J?