I bought my first VW today, been on the look out for a while, and inspected half a dozen before settling on this one.
Its a bit off an oddity at the moment, parts from different years all over it, but plan to bring it partially back to correct period without being pedantic.
The semaphores have been welded up and seatbeats installed through pillars and mod plated so would be too hard changing it back. I do plan on changing front indicators to narrow style and rear lights to snowflake if I find some.
The front looks alright at moment, but an engine fire has made a mess of the back. Its all fixed mechanically and running a 1600, but needs tidying up. For the short term just going to clean it up and paint that section masked off, ultimately the whole car will need to be resprayed, bit of rust coming though in drivers door and a few tiny bubbles forming along the seams and clear coat lifting on roof. Thinking same colour except cream on side panels to two tone it.
The interior has a little roasted carpet under the window, but otherwise seats and door cards retrimmed in leather (not vinyl). Not a huge fan of colour but its tidy so can stay for now. Drivers door card will be needing a new panel as water damaged due to one piece glass conversion on doors not sealing properly. I want to change this back to quarter windows. Guess the easy way is buying some second hand doors?
Just need to do some fiddly jobs, paint rear and put some rego on it.
r0880 Casual Dubber
36 posts · joined Oct 2013 ·
