Oldspeed-Mouse-Motor

For Sale in UK: Genuine Okrasa Motor

2010-02-23T11:22:00.003Z

Genuine, complete 1300 36hp Okrasa unit.

Unused for the last 2 years, came from Drew Colome's Hebmuller and only ever done low miles since its build. £9500.00

See full ad here.

NO LONGER FOR SALE: The Oldspeed Mouse Motor Bug

2009-11-17T12:08:00.004Z

Volksworld Show

2009-03-30T19:25:00.004+01:00

It finally feels like summer is around the corner as we went to the Volksworld show this weekend. It was great to meet up with everyone again.

Our mate Ian has got his Judson fitted up to his '64 bahama blue bug, so it seemed the right thing to park the bugs up next to each other so you can compare the differences in these two oldspeed 34hp motors.

A close up of Ian's very smart motor. It sounded great when he fired it up.

Another bit of vintage speed goodness lurked under the hood of the Ben Lewis prepared bonkers country buggy

Sweet, a Porsche 912 motor set up by Mr Keith Seume himself. Not too shabby, eh?

We're back.

2009-03-30T19:01:00.002+01:00

After another shoddy gap. We're back and we'll be updating the blog throughout the summer with all sorts of oldspeed related goodness. And news on that dyno session when we sort it.

Speedwell Sprint Carb Kit For Sale

2009-01-07T13:13:00.003Z

Speedwell Sprint Carb Kit for sale on Restowagen UK:

Complete with all original Speedwell parts THIS is not a repro kit it is totally OG and has taken 6 years to piece together using Speedwell parts . It comes with a copy of the full fitting instructions too.

Price £ 1500 GBP I can box and ship this world wide.
Mail at dudley.goodfk@btinternet.com

MAHAG German vintage speed exhaust for sale...

2008-10-20T13:40:00.003+01:00

We got sent a link to this MAHAG vintage speed exhaust for sale via Pre67vw.com. Turns out its our good friend Thomas from Oldspeed-Register who's selling it. Very nice it is too, if we didn't have the Abarth, we'd be very tempted.

Vintage Glitter

2008-09-27T21:05:00.002+01:00

I found these pics on an ad for an original, untouched Porsche 356. I had to share them with you vintage speed heads out there. Nice.

Back in Action

2008-09-03T23:57:00.005+01:00

That is a bad joke, as, back with a nice, new MOT, we took to the bug up to VW Action at Santa Pod this weekend. Fresh from it's 500 mile service, the motor performed admirably, and for the first time we could open it up a little (not toooooo much still). It felt like there was lots of power there to be had.

On the way back we hit the mother of all thunderstorms on the M25, with deep water on the roads and monsoon style rain. The 6 volt system did it's bit very well, but we spent Monday drying the car out - some flooded parts of the motorway were deeper in water than the floorpan :-(

The plan now is to put another few hundred miles on the motor, then have it looked over again then dyno'd to make sure the carbs and everything are set-up as good as possible - and to get that all-important BHP figure :-)

One of the Restowagen guys took a couple of sweet pics of the motor, here's one... cheers Tony!

Judson Supercharger for Sale

2008-08-19T10:26:00.002+01:00

There is a complete Judson Supercharger for a 25/30 hp engine, rebuilt by George Folchi in the USA for sale on Volkszone in the UK. £1250.

Amayesing

2008-08-09T20:48:00.003+01:00

Check out the website of David Mark Mayes, amayesing.com - it's got loads of vintage speed related goodness on it, including his amayesing (geddit?!?!) collection of vintage speed parts - the 1300/1500 okrasa kit above being just one example. Also there's a great story of a 60's drag engine that he found and the previous owners story here.

500 mile service

2008-08-09T20:39:00.003+01:00

Yesterday the bug went in for its 500 mile service on the motor. Heads re-torqued, oil change etc. It was given a clean bit of health :-D It's also having some bits'n'pieces done for the MOT. Will report in when we get it back and get that engine fired up again :-) Can't wait to open it up properly.

Intaking the V-dub

2008-07-29T22:25:00.003+01:00

We found this cool copy of Hot Rod magazine at the Hot Rod Super Nationals at the weekend. It's from 1968, and it's interesting to see their advice on hopping up the intake side of VW motors. For example, for the 1200 motors, they say that there's only one type of intake manifold available - maybe they hadn't come across the Okrasa or TDE kits?
There's pictures of scat manifolds for single carb set-ups for single and dual port heads, and a nice pair of Weber 48 IDAs.

260 mile round trip!

2008-07-26T00:46:00.008+01:00

Last weekend we took the new motor on it's longest trip so far, to Bug Jam at Santa Pod Raceway - a 260 mile round trip in one day. Still running it in, so we varied the speed between 50 and 60 mph and on the way up there stopped a couple of times, just for peace of mind and to check all was well.

It ran really well and sounded fantastic when you tickled the throttle a bit. Here it is in the Restowagen UK line-up in the Show & Shine.

Bug Jam was great and there were plenty of really nice cars on display. Here are a couple of pics for those who missed it:

The rumble

2008-07-24T00:14:00.002+01:00

This is the motor in the bug. It was amazing driving it back from Farnborough.
Our first task was to put 500 gentle miles on it to run it in.
We did that already :-)
It's great fun to drive, even though we are holding back on opening it up just yet.
In a couple of weeks, it will be going back in to have the oil changed, and the heads re-torqued. The plan then is to run it a bit more, then have it dyno'd to get the carbs running as sweet as possible (although it feels really sweet already) - and find out how many baby horses this little sucker is making.

Complete!

2008-07-22T23:35:00.008+01:00

Ok, so here's a catch-up! The exhaust finally arrived (thanks Mr Wob & Julian at Karman Konnection) and here it is hooked up for the first time for a test fit. Big Smiles all round!!

Meanwhile the donor engine was removed from the bug, the old tatty firewall card was removed and a lovely new one fitted (again thanks to KK).

Then came the fitting of the new engine!! The Carbs and exhaust had to be removed in the process,
then the carbs where put back on and to fit the exhaust, the heat exchangers had to come off. Here it is minus the accelerator linkage:
and finally a brand new 6v battery and the conversion back to 6 volts 8-)

A nice parcel

2008-07-16T22:02:00.004+01:00

A nice parcel of goodies arrived from our good oldspeed buddy Thomas of Oldspeed-Register. Thanks a lot Thomas - much appreciated!!!! It will indeed help keep out motor alive :-)

Thomas is selling these awesome ORF filters - they look great, nice job Thomas! Have a look at the ad here (there's not many so you better be quick). He's also doing custom oil lines to suit.

BRAAAAAAAAARP!

2008-07-16T21:53:00.000+01:00

Sorry for the lack of updates - we've been out driving! :-) :-)

Exhaust

2008-07-12T13:56:00.001+01:00

So this is it. Worth the wait.

Exhaust arrives!

2008-07-07T21:09:00.005+01:00

Great news today - our Mr.Wob Abarth exhaust is in the country! Hooray!
A big thanks to Julian from Karmann Konnection for his persistence in getting this over - cheers! It should be over at Farnborough VW tomorrow. Then it will need modifying to fit the narrower engine.

Complete turn-key 34/40hp Okrasa for sale...

2008-07-07T20:52:00.002+01:00

Hello oldspeed fans, here's another thing to tempt your life-saving from unfer your mattress, a turn-key 34/40hp okrasa complete motor build by Mr.Okrasa (Joe Ruiz). On ebay - here. Mmmmm.

The bug goes in...

2008-07-05T19:45:00.004+01:00

Took the bug over to Farborough VW yesterday ready for the temp motor to come out (thanks fellas) and the new one to be fitted. Just waiting on the throttle linkage, which is being adjusted to make it 'just right'. Also - this is the first time we've seen the built-up motor in the flesh -it looks great - even better than the pics. Everything on it is just spot-on. Great work Ian.
Now crossing our fingers toes and anything else crossable hoping for the arrival of the Mr.Wob Abarth exhaust.

New firewall card

2008-07-05T19:42:00.002+01:00

Not very exciting, but another step in the right direction - our new Wolfsburg West firewall arrives from Karmann Konnection. It is given the once over by Tigger and approved.

Lavenham pics

2008-07-02T13:11:00.004+01:00

It's alive!

2008-07-01T22:46:00.001+01:00

Quick video of the first fire-up and running the cam in.

Enigine Build Up Part 5

2008-07-01T21:29:00.006+01:00

With the pushrods back it was time for the final assembly - a few pics of here coming together, then being fitted with a temporary 1200 stock exhaust (still waiting for the the Mr.Wob Abarth)...

All hooked up and ready to rock and roll!

Enigine Build Up Part 4

2008-07-01T21:20:00.004+01:00

More pics and updates (cheers E!)...

He reversed the oil line going into the pedestal (compare it to the earlier post if you're interested) so it fitted neater around the fuel pump, you can see it in this pic...
very neat!

Re-machined pushrods to fit come back...

Okrasa Heads and carbs for sale at Lavenham

2008-06-29T21:46:00.004+01:00

Went to the Lavenham show yesterday, it was a good day, with lots of rare cars to look at. Here's a taster...
Spotted a pair of Okrasa heads for sale, with carbs and manifolds. If anyone is genuinely interested I can pass on the seller's details. Price is £1200.

Oldspeed-Register

2008-06-26T23:31:00.003+01:00

Just a quick post to say thanks to Thomas at oldspeed-register for the link and his kind words. Cheers Thomas!

A little something for a Monday

2008-06-23T23:43:00.002+01:00

Enigine Build Up Part 3

2008-06-22T23:14:00.002+01:00

More progress pics from Ian at Farnborough VW...

Mr Wob oil lines plumbed in...

Reichert linkage and Fram filter mocked-up...

coil and carbs mocked-up

bolt-up 1.1:1 rockers to replace the stock 1:1's...

rockers mocked up - this was to see how much the pushrods would need machining down...

Eventually the Fram came apart - 40 years sat in a box and it was a bit stubborn :-)

Enigine Build Up Part 2

2008-06-20T23:21:00.001+01:00

Heads on :)

The pushrods were mocked up and then removed - because the heads have had so much material taken off, each side of the motor is approx. 4mm shorter, so the pushrods need machining to fit

Enigine Build Up Part 1

2008-06-20T23:02:00.003+01:00

Got some pics here from Ian at Farnborough VW (hello!) who's building the engine up. It's pretty exciting to see some of these parts come together :-)

New Links

2008-06-19T19:29:00.002+01:00

We've added some links on the right to some more VW blogging friends, there are some excellent project blogs there, and also the 6 Volt blog, which is great. Take a look...

6 Volt
SplitBoy
Oval 57
Azur Suprise

Hello Håkon!

Okrasa ts-1200 for sale

2008-06-17T11:41:00.003+01:00

For sale on Pre 67 VW

I have a okrasa ts-1200 kit for sale. the kit is immaculate, carbs 32 pbic, heads, fram oil filter, carb linkage, tach, manifold and knecht air filter.
heads has no fins broken, perfect condition. fram filter looks new, carb linkage looks new.
tach is nos.
also copper gas line, not pictured.

i have two of those so i have to sell one for someone to enjoy.
price is 8000$ or 5200 euro

will ship worldwide.
serious buyer only.
email me at louisaddiction@hotmail.com

Power Power Power

2008-06-16T20:51:00.004+01:00

I found this power chart on this website. Shows a power comparison between different vintage tuning options, here's the key (it's based on a 30 horse engine - shown in SAE HP, so stock is 36):
A: Judson
B: Dual Solex
C: Okrasa 1192cc kit
D: Okrasa 1293 kit
It shows that a Judson holds its own against an Okrasa kit which includes twin solex's, high-compression twin port heads, and twin-port manifolds. Only the TSV-1300/30 Okrasa kit, with the crank that increases the CCs beats it. It also shows that the Judson gives a solid power increase throughout the rev range, not just at higher revs. Nice.

Knechtens Zwitter Blog...

2008-06-16T20:22:00.002+01:00

Just found this excellent blog of a restoration of an oldspeed-look zwitter. Lots of great work on there and the car looks great! Have a look here.

A narrower engine = more things to solve

2008-06-09T22:02:00.003+01:00

Because we have increased compression by machining down the stock heads rather than fitting custom units, the motor will be about 4mm shorter on either side (which is quite a lot in engine terms I guess). This will mean a few other modifications will be needed - the stock pushrods will need shortening, some tinware will need modifying (wish we had realised this before we had it powdercoated DOH!) and I guess the knock-on effects will keep coming - carb linkage, hmmm, dunno what else.
Oh well, will keep you posted.

A happy goodbye

2008-06-09T21:53:00.002+01:00

It was great to say goodbye to all these parts we've been hoarding in our front room. Now that the heads are done, the tinware, carbs kit, distributor and other ancillaries can go over to Farnborough VW Centre for the build up.

The heads come home!

2008-06-09T21:23:00.004+01:00

We got the heads back from GAC and they are definitely worth the wait. They have been ported and polished and matched to the Reichert mainfolds. Also, the eagle eyed amongst you might notice that a whole cooling fin has been removed - this is to get the compression from the stock 6.5:1 to a hefty 9:1. Nice. That is some pretty blinking nice-looking work. Also the exhaust valves have been replaced with Stainless ones for extra resilience (to avoid what happened last time) the inlets are 1300 exhaust valves, which again are stronger than stock. All the valves have been reworked for extra flow.

Heads update & more cleaning up...

2008-05-25T20:20:00.010+01:00

The heads are due back from GAC anytime now, they've been fitting them in around their race-car jobs. So in the meantime we've been cleaning up some of the engine ancillaries that Farnborough VW will need when we have the heads back. This was the original 6v generator and regulator that came off the car a couple of years ago when we converted to 12v...
A bit of elbow-grease later...

We thought we'd better do the fuel pump too...
and the 6v generator stand...
That's it for now, hopefully the next post will be either the heads or our Mr.Wob Abarth exhaust arriving.

Back on track...

2008-05-12T00:15:00.002+01:00

Hello folks, sorry about the big gap in updates. Rest assured things have been happening on the motor, normal service service will be resumed shortly...

Another mini milestone...

2008-03-12T19:27:00.005Z

We reached a mini-milestone in the engine build - and reduced the pile of engine components that currently live in our lounge :-)

We took the heads and inlet manifolds up to GAC Motorsport in Aylesbury to be matched and ported. We met Alan (hello Alan) who is in the middle of build two european spec formula Vee cars for the new season - impressive-looking stuff.

We discussed some stuff with Alan, like compression ratio - which he's going to make 9:1 - it means our oversize barrels will need machining down to achieve a deck-height of 1.2mm (they are currently 3.75). That'll be sorted out by Farnborough VW as they build-up the bottom end.

Old-school bling...

2008-03-09T20:51:00.003Z

The one part of the Riechert Kit that we were not 100% about were the air filters - the old-school pics of the Riechert carbs always look really good with a nice pair of 'cheese-grater' style Knecht filters. We bought this pair on ebay, that fit our carbs. Nice.

Little job...

2008-03-09T20:41:00.002Z

Did a very little job yesterday while it was raining - cleaned-up an original 6 volt coil and strap that we bought off the samba. Every little helps, as they say.

Machining Goodness...

2008-03-09T20:21:00.008Z

We went over to Farnborough VW on Friday to pick up the newly machined pistons and barrels - they have been clearanced to work with the standard 1200 crankWe also had a look at the case which has been align-bored. Apparently it needed very little work as it was in much better condition than expected.
Also, the original rods and crank, which have all been machined and balanced...
Everything's looking really good - and it's always nice to see the Farnborough lot - top fellas.

Heat exchangers...

2008-03-09T20:12:00.002Z

Well we though long and hard about whether to go with the stock heat exchangers, or to go with j-tubes (or indeed with the earlier heat exchangers) - but in the end decided to go with our stock originals - so we have fully working heating - and also because the overall concept is to keep the engine stock and stock-looking apart from the specific tuning goodies.
Anyhow - we got the heat exchangers back from the powder coaters - satin silver-grey - which was the original colour of ours...

More powder coating...

2008-03-09T20:02:00.003Z

We had part of the carb linkage - bit that fits to the fanshroud - powdercoated satin black to match the fanshroud - to keep things nice and neat.

WOO HOO!

2008-03-09T19:40:00.005Z

Exciting package from Germany - our carb kit from Bernd Riechert - thanks Bernd! They are twin Solex 34's built with NOS parts to order, and single port manifolds to fit our 373's.

Shiny Tinware!

2008-03-09T19:30:00.008Z

Well it turned out that a couple of pieces of tinware were rotted through, but we found a couple of replacements (cheers Rob!) and now we have everything back from the powder coaters. Everything has been done in stock satin black. We spent yesterday checking the bits out and refitting the fans to the shroud. A few bits here - pretty nice job I think...

Blast!

2008-02-12T00:13:00.001Z

Good news, a bit of progress today as we got our tinware back from the blasters - it's looking pretty clean - now we just need to have a proper look through it to make sure everything's in good condition before it goes off to the powdercoaters.

TDE article...

2008-02-10T23:36:00.000Z

Another great VWMotoring vintage speed article - this one about Theo Decker (TDE) kits. Click the image to read the detail.

BTW more updates to come on our build soon.

85bhp okrasa-based motor...

2008-02-07T23:00:00.000Z

Check out this great article from 1965 about a '54 beetle in Australia that has had it's original motor pepped up to 1488 with a Okrasa crank and 82mm pistons. The compression ratio is a whopping 9.5:1. 85bhp and 105mph is pretty impressive stuff for a 1200 based motor. - Click on the pic to read all the detail. One of my favourite things about this article is that the picture of the motor was printed upside down - and the headline reads b.p.h instead of b.h.p. - good copy checking :-)

Okrasa Fuel Filter Kit

2008-02-01T23:49:00.000Z

Okrasa Fuel Filter Kit for sale on the samba $150.

TDE 34hp Kit

2008-01-27T23:00:00.000Z

Great pic of a TDE kit on a 34 horse motor (from '65-ish)- good reference for our build as it has a fan-shroud mounted oil filter

Engle 100

2008-01-19T21:21:00.001Z

What cam to choose? We have ordered a Riechert twin carb kit, which by the recommendation of Bernd (Riechert) will be a twin Solex 34 kit. So, so far the spec of the motor is a 1385cc, with ported single-port heads, and twin 34 solex carbs. We were looking for a cam that would give enough lift to fill these carbs through our sp heads, but work at low-enough revs to keep the motor drivable and not too 'revvy'. Alan at GAC Motorsport recommended an Engle 100. Here it is.

'New' distributor...

2008-01-19T20:49:00.000Z

Well, new to us anyways - a nice shiny Bosch BR25, reconditioned and rebuilt with all NOS parts by Glenn Ring in the states. Glenn certainly knows his stuff when it comes to distributors and other VW gubbins. Nice job Glenn, cheers. Check his site here

Oldspeed-Register

2008-01-19T19:56:00.000Z

This a good oldspeed blog, with cool parts and a really helpful forum (that's helped us out loads so far)
Link: http://oldspeed-register.blogspot.com/

Okrasa heads and carbs for sale...

2008-01-15T14:02:00.000Z

Ad found on Volkszone for okrasa heads and carbs: http://www.volkszone.co.uk/VZi/showthread.php?t=420154
Dunno what the condition is like, but worth a look if you're on the hunt for some oldspeed gear - would have been interested myself if hadn't already ordered a Riechert kit and committed to single-port heads.

NOS Fram Oil Filter!

2008-01-14T23:35:00.000Z

Well, here it is, our NOS Fram Oil Filter direct from ISP West, USA. They have a small quantity of NOS ones still in original boxes along with the replacement filters. To keep it all looking period correct we sourced some period style oil lines and fittings from Mr Wob (of Abarth Exhaust fame)...

Carbs...

2008-01-14T22:37:00.000Z

We've been looking around for some vintage speed, twin carb options and found a company called Riechert in Germany run by Bernd Riechert wo's been making twin Solex carb kits for Porsche and VW since 1965, so he knows his stuff. He makes single and twin port kits so it's perfect for our single port based engine.

Riechert Dual Solex 34 PCI Carb Kit

We spoke to Bernd and he advised us to go with a twin 34 Solex kit to go with our 1385cc. They make up the kits to order from their stock of NOS Solex parts, then jet and flow bench them exacty to your engine set up. Nice.

New heads...

2008-01-06T22:09:00.000Z

We've done some research into heads for the motor, it turns out that to be period-correct for 1965, there aren't many choices when it comes to heads for the 34hp motor. Basically, the choices seem to be stock VW heads or Okrasa twin-port heads - if anyone has any other info on other period heads for 30 or 34hp motors, let me know, and I'll post it up. Okrasa seems to be the only company making tuned heads for the VW at this time, unfortunately for our build we don't have the funds it takes to buy a pair of these babies (last ad seen $2000 for a pair - that would then need tidying up and building, probably including a valve-job, new valves etc). So we are using VW heads. We've taken the decision to go with the single-port heads from the 34hp - for a couple of reasons, one, VW made massive improvements to their 34hp singleport heads in '65 - they introduced the 373 heads (373 being the last 3 digits of the part code) which were stronger and had better cooling (due to an extra fin) than the previous 371 heads for the 34hp, and the second reason was that we had been convinced of the potential, strength and reliability of VW singleport heads by some good people, including GAC Motorsport in Aylesbury - who build tuned singleport heads for Formula Vee racing. So it seemed like a cool idea to use these year-correct heads rather than on VW twin-port heads which were introduced in '66 for the 1300, and then enlarged later for the 1500 and 1600.

Our motor came with 373 heads being a '65, but one was destroyed when the exhaust valve went, so we decided to look for another pair of genuine 373's then we could pick the best 2 from 3 to work on.
We found a good pair from a guy in Dorset who'd had them in a parts bin for the last 15 years...

The odd thing is that even though they have the same part number exactly (373 with no letter suffix, meaning they're genuine '65 heads) they have slightly different casting around the combustion chamber - seems like VW changed the casting during the year. First job was to clean up all three heads by hand with gunk and pressure washer (dirty job), then remove the valves...

Then they went off to a local engineers to be bead blasted to clean them up properly...

Nice. Next for the heads is to go off to GAC Motorsport to be ported, have a valve-job done on them and built up with new 1.1:1 ratio rockers, and new stainless steel valves (to help avoid what happened to the last ones :-) )

New Barrels & Pistons...

2008-01-05T23:06:00.000Z

We are going to increase the motor to 1385cc by fitting some Mahle 83mm Barrels and Pistons - as they say 'there's no replacement for displacement' (who are 'they' anyways?). Contrary to a lot of write-ups these babies do not 'slot right in' but rather need quite a lot of machining around the skirt to make them fit. Basically they need to be reprofiled to match the 1200 pistons so that they clear the crank. Thanks to Rob for info on the machining.

The 'Old-Speed' direction...

2007-12-21T22:55:00.000Z

With the motor needing rebuilding, we've decided to do it properly ie get the whole thing completely re-built and restored year-correct. And to do it all the highest standard we can. We're fans of 'old-speed' style tuning goodies and so decided to pep up the motor with some vintage tuning stuff. The question then is which way and how far to go.

From doing a lot of reading old VW magazines and tuning books and digging around some really good websites, seems like there are 3 basic directions that you can go in when building a vintage speed VW motor: 1 - increase the cc of the motor only, 2 - vintage twin carburetor set-up, or 3 - a vintage supercharger.

This is twin-carb kit made by Okrasa - this one is a TSV-1300/34, made for the 34hp 1200 (like ours) which means that as well as the twin carbs, manifolds and very smart twin-port heads, it also came with the Okrasa 69.5mm crank, which increased capacity to 1300 (pic from May 1965 issue of Safer Motoring).

A Shorrock Supercharger for a VW 1200 offering a '50%' increase in power. Ad from 1965.

We've decided to go down the carburetor and increased cc route - so more to come on that later.

The Block

2007-12-19T15:15:00.000Z

Well, here’s the engine block all stripped and cleaned, again thanks to Farnborough VW. Hopefully there will be no nasty surprises lurking inside when it’s split…

… and here it is, split open for the first time in 42 years!

The good news is that it’s in really good condition and is re-usable, as is the original crank, so at least that’s a starting point for the re-build.

The problem...

2007-12-17T00:36:00.000Z

Farnborough VW dropped out the engine, opened it up and discovered that the exhaust valve on number 3 cylinder had snapped, embedded itself into the chamber and then smashed it's way right through the top of the piston. They even found bits of the broken piston in the other head - it ain't pretty, but it does explain why it seized.

So the search was on for another '65 1200 cylinder head...

A sad day :-(

2007-12-16T23:14:00.000Z

On our way to the UltraVW Bug Boogie show in September, the bug gave out a small puff of smoke and lost power. We pulled over and switched off, had a look round the motor - nothing. Tried starting it again, but it had completely seized. Time for the truck :-(

How it all began....

2007-12-16T22:52:00.000Z

This was our 1200 34hp motor in August 2007. It's the original stock motor from the car, it had never been restored or refurbished. All it had done was a conversion to 12 volt a couple of years ago - when we using it as a daily - we kept all of the original 6v parts :-)
It had always dropped a little bit of oil, and it was always our intention to strip it and restore it completely stock one day - we just never expected it to be so soon.