About another week or so, and it should be ready for some paint - I'm waiting for solar heater to start working again, and the wind to stop.

Posting pics is a struggle, and if I manage to find an easy way to do so, I will. Meanwhile I'll stick to the easy stuff - repairing the rusty Beetle shell, and welding in the roll cage etc.

Hoping not to find much mechanical damage, as it looks OK - except for the f....ing broken brake drum. Using GENUINE VW drums now.

Thanks again to those people who have helped out along the way, particularly Steve Muller, his brother Adrian, Rod Penrose, John Fabiszewski, etc.

Cheers, Greg

Good on ya Greg.

Are you building a better mouse trap, or just a safer one?

CT

Same mousetrap - only a fair bit heavier, thanks to the roll-cage. May have to squeeze a bit more out of the engine, but don't want to risk making it unreliable, as it has been running sweetly for over 3 years. Still a bit more in the suspension tuning though, I think.

Cheers, Greg

Come on Greg! You mastered inserting smiley faces, surely you can get a photo inserted.

Email me some and I will post them up for you, if you like.

Kev

Saw the pic of it on the trailer in the VW Mag-lucky your pretty short or it could have been real nasty.You should have got a pair of those horn producing rear discs of Gears while you were there.Good luck with the rebuild-Gary

Listen Gary, I'm not putting those new-fangled disc things things on, OK And what's this 'short' bussiness? Oh well, I am now - after the whack on the head. I think that I lost at least 1" - and also I'm not as tall.

Kev (camo) will post some pics for this poor old fella, won't you Kev?

Cheers, Greg

From what I remember-Ron was telling us you could afford to lose an inch or two from another area.Shame he didn't get a photo for proof.How you coming along with the photo posting training? Gary.

Listen Gary, just behave yourself. and I'm too busy painting No. 8 right now to be mucking about with photos. I managed to fluke one a while back, but I don't know how, so when I get a bit of time, the photo thing will happen - just stop picking on me

How's your car coming along?

Cheers, Greg

Here are most of Greg's photos he sent me, in no particular order. If you have any questions re these, please ask Greg.

Cheers, Kev

Thanks for that Kev - hope not to trouble you again

No trouble Greg and glad to help. It only took a few minutes to organise, but a day or so to have the time to do it

Kev

I have seen this car in the flesh, gunna be a good car, lots of body work has been done, just goes to show how lucky some of us are to be able to have the good cars.


We also disscussed the disc brake option and greg has some perfectly good reasons not to want to use them.

Cant wait to see it out and about on the track

How did the painting go during the week greg?

looking good.........so its welded to the pan ?

Jeez Greg you have put a lot of effort into the "NEW 8" Good call with the later door locks and strikers.Is that your shed you are working in? Just beautiful.I am still plodding along with mine-2 steps forward,three backwards.There were some serious faults with the Autocraft engine I bought for it,so have stripped it for a full rebuild.Now it's apart,I have decided to turbo it,so can fit a turbo grind cam.Those heads I got from Geers-I have had them rebuilt,so it will breathe well.Sanchez has done well with buying Rods old car-he probably won't need most of the stuff he bought on the trip.Did you ever get all the parts you needed from Chucks' to finish the soft top car you were restoring?Cheers Gary.

Shaun.......Painting (primer) starts today

Craig........Yep.

Gary.........Try three steps forward, and NONE backward - it's heaps better.

looking good Greg lots of work there that sheet metal will stiffin it right up

I like the later model door locks

Shoud be nice and stiff then .

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Originally posted by HappyDaze Gary.........Try three steps forward, and NONE backward - it's heaps better.

Thanks a lot for reminding me I've been trying to forget that.

Luck with the painting

Finally got the primer on - when the wind dropped a bit

looks good just need ball joint front end and irs

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Originally posted by PAZZAN looks good just need ball joint front end and irs

Tell you what.....swing-axles are IRS, and they are located by trailing arms. Next please!

u know what I mean

IT'S NOW BLACK! Perfect day for painting - after the crap weather lately.

Cheers, Greg

Roll angle warning light....sorry, I couldn't resist.

That would work It's ' low oil pressure ', but in that position it would be ON for sure.

What I really would like is a ' Brake drum about to fail ' warning light.