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