Purchased this car in pretty good condition around 6 months ago (some of you may recognise it from the “buying, selling & swapping cars” section of this site). I’ll try to add some progress photos as I go.
Feel free to post your ideas and suggestions as I go . . . . .

Week 2 progress

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What starts with "R" and rhymes with "must"

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Dude. I am doing a resto as well and it is amazing what you find once you start stripping back. Mine wasn't to bad, but it still had a couple of patches. Good luck with it

Cheers

Adam

nice wheels let me know if you want to sell or trade

ha ha dave i was just thinking that .
ive got an original set $1450 with tyres

There only dirty old pedrinis , can't be worth more than say 2




















































































pallets of Crownies

thats easy fixed

So youv'e sold your gas burners then hey

A parcel arrived yesterday from Classic VW
- Window, door and bonnet seals, new vent windows and some axel boots.
Still waiting on a few other goodies including 12V semaphores :-)

Cheers Adam,
Haven't found anything to scary so far (touch wood)

Plates finally arrived!

Buying a shed at the moment (with a house attached to it) so work on the beetle has been hampered.

12V semaphores arrived yesterday (I love these things). The plan is to get them flashing with the blinkers which will be mounted to the bumper. Does anyone know where I can get some quality indicators that aren't $350!

Check out the Harley blinkers that you can get.

What is that rectangular hole, just up from the fuel tank hole for??

A CD player was mounted there so I’m guessing it was cut out to feed the wires through. When it was painted last someone “patched” the hole with fabric and painted over the top.
I haven’t decided how I am going to fix it yet.

Slow progress is still progress.

If my neighbours happen to be on this forum I am sorry for the racket!

Dude!
Cool thread - keep the updates and pictures coming!

what did you use to remove the paint in the end?

Combination of orbital sander and sanding block.

After LOTS of practice on sheet metal I have repaired 4 of the 5 rust spots. Not sure how to repair the split in the metal under the driver’s window.

All the red 2pac paint is off (some area to bare metal some just back to the original paint). All areas have been treated and I hope to lay the first coat of primer in a couple of weeks.

I will have to remember to bring the camera home from work so I can take some photos.

Take Off the ALL the olf paint if your going to apply 2 pak agian
other wise it will bleed through and you will have wasted lots of funds

It’s a daily driver (and mainly on country roads) so the plan was to go with an acrylic paint.

progress has been slow but i can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel

This is definitely the fun bit.

Love the colour... and the fact it is an oval

After talking it up that it would "start first go" after sitting for 7 months I am please to say (to the horror of my mates) that after kicking over for a while it fired up and sounds Great!

looking forward to stretching her legs on the 2.5 hour drive down south.
(2.5 hours in a Hilux)