This is "Monk" my 1970 Baja Bug...first VW that I have ever owned. I was looking for a lightweight vehicle that I could trailer behind my RV and use for off-road exploring as well as grocery runs... so it needed to be plated. Bought this 16 months ago.. it had been sitting under a palm tree in Solana Beach, CA for unknown length of time. However it has great bones (fuel cell, Racerunner shocks front and rear, full cage, 1915 built motor with 110 cam, dual Delortos, etc), original builder was planning on building it for Class 5. When I bought it, it had been through two intermediate owners and had been completely run into the ground... with what appeared to be NO maintenance. Work I have done to it... using lots of parts from JBugs... Front beam and hub rebuild. Added front disc rotors (had no front brakes) Completely rewired. Original wiring had been done well and was laced nicely but the builder had used CCA (copper clad aluminum) stranded wire and ALL connections had corroded and would break if you touched or flexed them... literally. CCA should be outlawed. Rewired entire vehicle with copper stranded wire. Added new LED headlights, Nilight front and roof mounted off-road lights. Replaced all other incandescent bulbs with LED. New distributor (water had entered and destroyed bearings and centrifical advance) with Pertronix coil and ignition module which failed after less than a year so am back to good old reliable breaker points. Rebuilt both Delorto carbs and linkage Transaxle rebuilt (I hired this done) 1915 motor top end rebuild with jugs, pistons and new heads from JBugs. I eventually got the original motor to run but compression was in the 60psi range with one cylinder at 53. When I tore the motor down, I could see pit marks on the bottom of the #1 cylinder. I suspect that rain had entered the motor and that cylinder had accumulated some water and rusted from when it was sitting under the palm tree. Bought new heads with oversize stainless valves. New Mongrel front tires Added roof rack More work to do but Monk now runs hard and I have good confidence it will be reliable as well for exploring on and off-road (knock on wood) since I have been into just about everything on this bug. Pix are from near Mexican Hat, UT.