Princess. Let me tell you about Princess. She is our darling and she is a person that stands up for herself and always back up the underdog. She also have a very bubbly personality that is hard to hate. My thoughts of people that own beetles is they are all left of center and let me tell you Princess is one of them. Eg she is wanting to become a PLUMBER and she is doing a Vcat ant tafe in pluming and also her VCE. So she has her work cut out for her. She is also excelling in pluming by being well ahead of the rest of the class.......... Princess originally wanted a KOMBI but they are well out of the price range. My wife and I had made a $7000 limit for all the kids for their first car. As I done with BOOF. She holds a part time job and she is saving for extras so that she can put a personal touch to the bug. So let me tell you about BORIS yes he already has a name he got that before we got him home from hoppers crossing. 40 min drive. So far he has cost up $4000 to buy which leave me $3000 to spend.......hmmmmmmm....... anyway once we got him home I thought that I had bought a Lemon as I had to spend nearly another $1000 to get him to a reliable ride. Not bad for a roadworthy car Ha Ha . Needed new front shocks so i got some coil over shocks for him. Oil leeks like you wouldn't believe. motor had to come out and get fixed at the previous owners expense. While it was out I got them to put a new clutch in. While he was there the guys talked me into putting an electronic dizzy in. We got him home and had to take him back as it wouldn't run dizzy left loose and still had oil leaks. So as you could imagine I was So happy after that. Once we got him home again drove him for a couple of more days and a front wheel bearing let go. at this stage i was pissed. The last guy that had it only put multipurpose grease in the bearings when he put the 2inch drop axles in. So it took me about 3 days to change bearings as one was ceased on there real good. had to make up the mother of all pullers to get the drum off.so that was another job done. While it was in the drive way the master cylinder decided to shit its self. Well wasn't I impressed. So I got a new one of them.i thought that surly has to be it. But NO BORIS still had more to come. with the new master one of the front wheel cylinders shat it so off the the shop again and a few days later back on their road. At this stage i thought my god what have I bought. So I started to drive it every where to make sure it will be right. About a week into that accelerator cable snap. I was ready to push it off the cliff. Fixed that. Then it was a good stretch of nothing going wrong for about 4 weeks he started running rough............pulled the carby off and the needle and seat had fallen out [ ball bearing and spring ] fixed that and so far so good but I need to get another carby for him and I have settled on a Progressive carby for him and yet to buy. So that is the story on BORIS so far in saying all that at least it all happened when I was driving him and Princess should have a good car. Princess could see that the $$$$$$$$ was going down fast and she kept a tally of all the expenses. in her wisdom she payed us back the $$$$ so that we could spend more on painting interior on other things. SMART GIRL I HAVE THERE. Anyway enough chit chat here are some pics.


These are from the add when we bought him.

This is Princess and hopefully a life long love affair together.

This is a little private moment Princess giving BORIS his first bubble bath at his new home .......


BORIS getting ready

This is a pic and a video of Princesses first drive in BORIS.

Well I have been privileged to see this thread on the samba, an excellent restoration going on here.

HA HA THANKS and I will be looking fawared to picking all your heads for info

cool! nice story, lucky girl
so will it be shown off at Valla ?
would be nice to see the bug in the street parade
cheers

Sorry but you have lost me with the Valla I assume that it is a car show of some sort ,,,,,, I am sorry for my ignorance as i am a holden man and this is the first bug I have anything to do with so it is a huge learning curve for me. I am very interested for any shows information and were i can get good quality parts from

These are a few happy snaps of AUSTRALIA DAY........... funny a German celebrating AUSSIE day it was a good day

So know that you all know of BORIS he was sitting outside in the harsh Aussie weather and he didn't like it. He got skin cancer. Once we got him into the garage. I had a better look and this is what I have seen. Looks like a back to metal job.

some of the blisters on the roof













Going to RIP the roof with this

Princess wanted me to add this pic it is BORIS hanging with the boys at the Australia Day Cruise. Nothing like doing your own thing or stand out in a crowd.




Funny thing on that day was BORIS some how ended up the leader of the pack that day didnt matter how slow I went no one would over take. So I thought that I would stop at Portarlinton and what do you think the others did. It was a very bizzar thing. Even when I left some how I ended out in front again.I slowed right down so the boys could open thier cars up on a remote road but they were all happy to have him lead.

The tear down begins............................... Princess and myself had a bit of a dig today before she had to go to work. We got a couple of hours in and i think that she done a good job she was more that eager to get in and have a go. Not bad for the first REAL time of swinging the spanners.











This is princesses boyfriend we shall call him PRINCE .........HAHA

Cool story, good to see the young ones are loving the dubs

Isn't it cute here comes the Princes in shinning armor to help out. He's a good one.





SEE I TOLD YOU ALL SHE WILL BE GETTING HER HANDS DIRTY









AND THE WIFE THOUGHT THAT SHE WAS GOING TO GET HER PERGOLA BACK after my sons rebuild ............ LUV YA HONEY ........if you guys are interested here is a li nk to that one
http://www.aussiev8.com.au/conversions-rebuilds-project-cars/33240-our-hq-pro...




ALL IN ALL A GOOD START TO THE PROJECT I THINK.

I thought that I would go out and have a look at what I am up against. There was a little bit of ewwwwww and a little bit of yum as I really enjoy the fabricating side of the re-beatification of cars.

I attacked a couple of spots that didn't look to bad until I got into it with the wire wheel on the grinder. There was about 3mm of bog to reveal this. I thought ok not to bad of a repair could be better.






After having a look at that side I went to have a look and attack the other side as that was sporting some bubbles and found this happy with this a original rust. Ha Ha

After seeing it it was time to get the grinder out and open him up. Just to see HOW big. The anticipation !!!!!!! this is what I found GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR



BLOODY EXPANDER FOAM.



After seeing that I thought better Look futher and I am happy that. So I did get rid of that horrable repair, OMG praise the lord I did. That repair that didnt look all that bad had evil thoughts ...Ha Ha








Have to do some internal rebuild work

Wow you guys don't muck around.

Does princess have a color in mind?

These are some pics of the bad repair work that someone else done a few years earlier. One thing that I don't understand why not cut it out. So that it will not come back like it has. My thoughts are cut out until there is no corrosion left behind.

Time to attack the other side.





yuk yuk yuk Not happt took it a little more





Dam that foam



dugg it out and not to bad happy with that.



just a compair to the other side

The day Boris is starting to get naked.

Choise of tools

BIG ONE



LITTLE ONE




Started to attack the roof wow man look at all the pritty colours



Also found a few layers of bog. Why do they do that ?












I thought that I better clean up some as I go this was mainly from just the roof.

I had the door handle bit to do but all the stuff I had was to big or to abrasive to tackle it and I remembed is had these wheels from Boofs nosecone. Like the old WOG thing never through anything out or it could come in handy some day. payed off.




THET WORKED A TREAT AND WERE PERFECT SIZE

This is my yongest daughter she looked on with intrest as I done sons car and now she is doing the same with Boris. I thought well here is a good chance for her to learn and do something. She was so HAPPY. Looks like there will be another build a few years down the track.
OH and I know I should Of put glasses on her. Sorry I got caught up in the monent.

A small proud moment for DAD

We got stuck into it and I think we had good progress for 3 hours.








LOOKING A LITTLE LIKE THE PHANTOM OF THE OPRAH IN THIS PIC .... HA HA

So I had enough and the little helper came out from hidding again........ she is a good one bless her hart

This is the amount we got from just the side

In this area there was about 4mm of bog why do people DO THAT there was no real need for that much. All it needs is a little bit of hammer and dolly and a light smear of bog. Not that hard.

I did some looking around and talked to some guys. THEY ... said that this stuff DEOXIDINE 625 is the best stuff in the world and will keep rust at bay for more that a 1000 years.......HA HA......All you have to do is wipe it off with pre wipe and paint it soon after when you are ready to paint. Much easery that some other ways that I have been tolled to do. I have seen it in action and more than happy with the results it gives



LOVE THIS SHOT