Body prep complete

Over the last few months i have been doing bits and pieces with lots of seam sealing and some more cleaning up and painting up of some  bits of the window winder. Also got the doors cleaned up a bit and one of the old front wings. Took the side skirt rubber off and started to clean them up to.

Today we have made a bit more progress on the body today, getting it all preped up and ready to go. Cleaned up the last little bits and then went around the car to check it all over and clean up a few more bits from the first side we did now that i have improved on grinding down welds and rust and cleaning it up. Helps that i got my fancy little tool to get into the corners. Then came the true test of all the welding and replacing the few bits on the body that sits onto the floor pan. We lay the floor pan down and tested the body on top. Fitted great :-) Feeling really pleased with all the hard work and although i know there are loads of other bits to clean up and loads on interior stuff to do etc it is nice to see it coming a long and hopefully before the end of the year it will be off to the paint shop to get the body painted up.

Some other things we have been getting done over the summer while the beetle has been on hold is the workshop and the base of the double garage we are building at ours so one day it might move out of mums garage. Here is the workshop walls going up and the base of the double garage that we dug out.

Thanks for keeping watching and hopefully some more updates soon

Over a year has past! 2015 and back on with the bug!!

Wow, looking back at when i last wrote was over a year ago, and what a year it was.

Christmas 2013 saw me and Rich get engaged. 2014 saw the house project continue. We blitzed through the house doing all the rooms in the big renovation, all while organizing a wedding! October 2014 we got married, of course the beetle and mini were a part of the day! What a year, here are a couple of photos before getting back to the Beetle

 So just after Christmas I started to get back on with my project. It has been cold and so not getting on quite as quick as hoped and still doing it just one day a week as have the garden to tackle in the new house and we want to get on with building the garages.

Rich spent a day doing a little more welding and i have spent a day starting to clean up the welds. just a little bit of welding left now. There were some really difficult bits in this with it being on the body rather then just underneath.

I got a bit of cleaning done on the gear box and some of the greasy parts and some of the other engine parts.

Then i have spent a couple of days under the car cleaning off the grime from the bottom. Looks pretty good for its age. lots of cleaning up, a bit of rust to treat and a quick coat of paint to keep it looking good.

While waiting for a few bits to dry i got a cleaning up some of the glue from the carpet on the inside.

it has been really good to be back on with it an progressing it again. How fast it will go we will have to see but hopefully as it gets warmer and longer evenings with the light i can start to crack back on with it and get it back on the road. Will it be ready in 2015? We will just have to wait and see