Another big day round at my shed. Dave Tanners `54 arrived bright and early ready to have the rust cut out.
The pan has already been restored by Dave (fantastic job) so it was decided that the body would come up on the `ragtop pan. Looks awesome!!!
Anyway it`s had a hit front and rear so the valances and inner guards all need replacing. There is also rust here and there in the usual places including the front winscreen surround but thankfully it`s nowhere near as bad as Matties Ragtop!!
Will keep you posted with progress pics on this one.

definitely want to see more pics of this and the work you are going to do mate.....the continuing saga!

Scarab (aka: Paul)

Cut out the damaged area at the back of `54 today and started grafting in the new steel.

Found an area on the l/h side in the guard mounting area, just next to the end of the gutter whcih had also been damaged and bashed into shape so decided to replace that too. I used a setion from the donor rear cut that I had from Matties Ragtop resto.

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GL with it! Sure it will turn out tops!

Gra, I should of just swapped 54 shells with Dave as that's how much I want to cut off the back of mine!
Keep up the good work.
T54

Cheers guys!

Got the back end in place and all lined up well.

Welded her up.

Dave has marked the car up with the areas he wants me to fix up. Now I am a bit puzzled why but he had put a note next to the back window saying "Update" so I grafted in the back window of my `63 Rod. I will use the `54 Oval Window in the Rod. Should look cool, suppose those small back windows are not everyones cup of tea.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH WTF JUST HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gotta love photoshop

Gra, Are you filling the exhaust cutouts up?
54's don't have them. You could do this in photoshop too.

Heath

Yeah Heath it`s on the list of things to do!

holly shit, lol you even had me going Gra
Thought what have you done to dads car ha ha ha

steve

HI, heres some progress pics of the `54. The doors were rotted out along the bottom rib and after a fair bit of procrastinating over how I should repair them I decided to use the top of the inner door skin off one of Mattie`s donor bugs that I aquired. Took a fair bit of re-shaping but the basic shape was there and as always I like to recycle as much genuine VW metal as I can..............

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awesome!

update

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Nice Mattie,
I take it the freshly painted photos is how it is sitting at the moment?
T54

I'm alittle confused,.. seems to be a number of cars here.

What's the story?

Same car pics not in order
Was white when we bought it.
Top pics are the repairs.
Then primer then paint

are you keeping the 4 stud fusch look a likes