Well...maybe my boyfriend, Kevin and I have bitten off more then we can chew but our aim is to have daphine completely finished in 2 months!! We have already bought a crap load of parts and the paint so far.
I am posting progress piccys so you can all see how it is going. And even if you have advice or ideas let me know. We bought the car on March 12th. Then we commenced work on the 14th of March, which was the following Monday. So in actual fact our aim is to complete it by the 14th of May!
We shall see how we go :P
DATE PURCHASED: 12/03/2005 :thumb
COMMENCEMENT DATE: 14/03/2005 :duh
APPROX. COMPLETION DATE: 14/05/2005 :jesus
** Complete beetle, first day at her new home **
Check out the other piccys below...
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foxy_fuchsia ·
Here is a bigger piccy of that first one.....
foxy_fuchsia ·
The speedo...it will be having a KPH one put in -
New carpet will be put in and new pedal rubbers...
foxy_fuchsia ·
The original 1500 single port engine, which is great, doesn't blow any smoke, and is in very good clean condition...we have come across a 1600 engine which will go in it's place. (If anyone is after a nice engine let me know!)
The glove box, door trims and better view of the carpet...
foxy_fuchsia ·
Kev hiding and the guard almost off...
Passenger seat has been ripped out and carpet gone!
foxy_fuchsia ·
Under the bug.....
The hood lining before it is taken out...we are replacing this -
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foxy_fuchsia ·
A back view of the car with the back window out and guards off...
A front view, it's starting to look scary now!!! :P -
MickH ·
You should be able to knock this over in 2 months.....but you might be off line a bit!!! Good luck:bounce
foxy_fuchsia ·
A back view of the car with the back window out and guards off (Hopefully this pic will work)
AND...the fron of the bug with all guards and interior stripped, windows out and everything on the dash goooooooooooone!!
foxy_fuchsia ·
That's all the pics I have for now, but stay tuned for more!!
Thanks Mick! I will probably only come online to check emails and post progress piccys. But she is coming along very well atm (fingers crossed), and we haven't discovered many nasty suprises so far!
Dasdubber ·
I wish you all the best - it is certainly going to be a challenge to say the least, but you have to have goals 😉
Look forward to seeing the updates.
GL1972 ·
I hope you make your target. VW fanatics by their nature get carried away. I told my wife 3 months and took 28 months.
Frequent whippings should ensure the deadline is met.
Brendan
Fossil ·
kick'n goals all the way - 😠
foxy_fuchsia ·
hehe, yeah so true...goals ar the way to go. Make you work extra hard if you set a deadline.
More updates over the next few days.
mattie ·
my advice is dont buy anything else until youve finished this one!
i had a 57 beetle about 12 months ago i bought a new box recon 1600 brand new twin carbs every thing you can think of to do a complete old skool car then i bought my fasty and i got hooked on that everything i had for the 57 i sold off for cheap and now its just sitting there.
well thats my 2c but take my advice as its the only way to go.
if your gonna start it finish it!
Fossil ·
my brother in law has been building a 32 t bucket hot rod and he hasn't met one goal date set in 3 years - all talk and little action unless someone has been there to help him push the scheitt up hill to get it to the top :thumb
Fossil ·
Also sick of hearing about I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that so now I won't talk to him about it until it's finished :blush scheitt happens
barls ·
ill say good luck to you and if you really try you may make it, but i have one point for you
"a car is a project that is never finished they are a constant state of evolution. if you dont believe me ask das
cray ·
looks almost exactly like mine when i bought it back in 1999, brings back good memories...
good luck! 🙂
foxy_fuchsia ·
It is having surgery over the next few days...then I will have more piccies for everyone!! I can't wait till she is ready 😀
:rudolf
foxy_fuchsia ·
Ooooh gawd.....I have never worked....and hurt so much in my life. I didn't know doing up a Beetle was so much hard work!!!!!!
My a** hurts, my arms hurt, yesterday I looked like a snow woman! How do you people actually like doing this? I know I probably sound like 'such a girl', I don't know how I am going to renovate out house!
Okay I will stop complaining now lol. I will just have to force myself to do it. Does anyone have different ways of taking your mind off how mind numbing this stuff is?
akean1 ·
just keep your goal in mind, think how much nicer your ride will be when your done, push for your inital 2 months, but dont get disheartend if it takes longer. it WILL be worth the work🙂
any more pics?
eirecooled ·
inspiration. keep a photo of a VW that looks like how you want yours to look like in the area your working at all the time. when things get tough look at the photo. 2 months is a tight schedule. keep your head down a*se up and good luck! :thumb
vwtyp2 ·
good luck with it.
A wise man once told me "don't look at the job as a whole, concentrate on one section at a time, do the best job you can, then move on to the next section"
It works, you definately see the progress when things on the to do list are getting crossed off.
Again, Good luck.
foxy_fuchsia ·
MORE PICCIES STRAIGHT AHEAD!!!
Oh and HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!
foxy_fuchsia ·
And thanks everyone for your words of wisdom and confidence 🙂
h ·
good luck with it!
BIG job.. but rewarding in the end... :thumb
mmm might make me even motivated..
look forward to progress pics..
foxy_fuchsia ·
This is the passenger side sill, someone had actually welded a strip of metal over it and when we removed it this is what we discovered! Part of the heater channel is rusted as well.......
foxy_fuchsia ·
I am making those piccies smaller for everyone.........
foxy_fuchsia ·
(Smaller pic) This is the passenger side sill, someone had actually welded a strip of metal over it and when we removed it this is what we discovered! Part of the heater channel is rusted as well.......
:bounce:bounce:bounce
foxy_fuchsia ·
These pics are from the same sill only inside the car, to say the least the sill was pretty fragile and flexible........
:kiss
foxy_fuchsia ·
This is a small piece of rust we cut out.........
A view from the drivers side looking down through the sill! 😀 All the rust has been removed........
foxy_fuchsia ·
A new metal base under where ther heater tube was has been welded in and it is now solid as a rock! Here is a piccy of the new side being put on.........
AND!!! (drum roll please)....The Bugs guard that I sanded back, I still have to sand it back to metal but it's almost done!!
jo_tas ·
Nice job! looks like you're working pretty hard..
I used to have a '69 beetle.. great little car.
I would love to have a project like that.. only things holding me back is money and space.. heh.. i guess they're pretty big things actually!!:duh
foxy_fuchsia ·
Okay, we have been working really well on the bug the past couple of weeks and just wanted to show you guys what we were up to...some comparison shots -
The rust in the passenger sill....
Has now been replaced with metal...
foxy_fuchsia ·
Another view of the passenger sill...
On the outside of the passenger sill under the front guard...
A metal plate just put over the top...
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foxy_fuchsia ·
The plate welded on, view from the outside...
A view of the rusted sill from inside...
A view of the sill now fixed...
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foxy_fuchsia ·
The passenger side jack point which was quite rusty and didn't look very strong, it's as solid as a rock now!
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Dasdubber ·
Amazing how quickly 14/5/05 will roll around eh??
I know how you feel, I tried to get my beetle done for Valla.....in 2003, and I'm still working on it! 🙂
bajachris88 ·
Gee wizz, that rust doesn't look too friendly, but you will make it. Just give it the beautiful loving care a mother would give to her baby. (baby, obviously refering to the beetle).
You restoring the whole floorpan yourself, or taking it in to a company like Custom Offroad in Brisbane to get it all up to scratch?
foxy_fuchsia ·
We have basically restored it all ourself now which is good! My bf is very talented 🙂
rearengine ·
More Pics!!!!!!!!!!!😀😀😀
pete wood ·
good stuff, another one saved from Uncle Rusty. :thumb
foxy_fuchsia ·
Hey guys!
Just thought I would check in an update on how we are going with the bug!! Well obviously we didn't meet our deadline before klubfest *sniff sniff* mainly because of work commitments. My boyfriend had shift change and now works during the week and I have a full time job as well! And on top of that AND doing up the buggy we are in the process of moving into our new house hehehe
Well that's all good though, I am not fussed at all that it's not done because it has given us time to work on the smaller (still very important) things. Like all of the small imperfections and prep work that determines how the final result and paint job will turn out! But Daphine will be ready to prime soon and I will post more piccies up here in the lead up to that.
All the welding has been done and rust has been replaced with metal. I have also bought some very nice looking mags for her and have had new brakes redrilled from custom off road (thanks Terry!). All we really have left to do is take the body back to bare metal, do a general cleanup and paint.
We are painting a pearl over white which should be interesting. What is the best temperature to paint a car? The bug will be in a shed all closed off with tarps and in Qld atm it is about 15-25 degrees throughout the day. But it does vary. I have heard not to paint when it's raining as well or the paint will go milky and crack or something? We are being loaned some painting heaters and have been advised to have them on the morning that we are going to paint the bug, just to warm up the metal...is this good to do and should we have them turned on the entire time we paint?
Foxy
xx
foxy_fuchsia ·
These are the mags I am having for the bug...
pete wood ·
what size are those rims Foxy?
foxy_fuchsia ·
Hi Pete they are 17" rims.
The bug will be primed this weekend I can't wait! It's getting closer now 😀
Baldy67 ·
cant wait to see the end result....good work foxy...:P
lunar_c ·
nice rims!
fastyman66 ·
So what happened to the car? was the resto finished?
any piccies?
h ·
she left the forum dude under a 'grey cloud' as it were.. so who knows.. 🥷
but yep they are nice wheels.. 🤪
guru ·
Hey, i've got some photos of this one somewhere. Someone damaged it in a carpark and had to be repaired. I'll find 'em and try to remember how to post them.