Beetle Diary !
OK, Iím doing this to show you guys what Iím up to, and as Iíve had the car for 18years, and Itís been on the road for erm well errr most of it, if I donít keep going you fine members can shame me into getting my sorry hide into the garage.
We moved the other year and Iím now the proud owner of a nice big double garage so I really have no excuses for not getting it done. It is with my family a constant source of entertainment and ridicule, mum : /snigger/ ìis the beetle done yet?î/chuckle/ LOL/, so I really do need to get it sorted!
Itís a 1971 1200cc beetle, been lowered ect ect , when I kinda got going on it a year or so ago I ordered engine parts to build a 2332cc so should be quite lively.
And last year I de-channelled the bonnet compartment as it had rusted beyond repair and sorted the couple of small rust spots that had appeared, I did paint it about 13 years ago red ën white, and when I first got it itís first mot it failed on all the usual bug bits, so that all got done, so pretty much it was restored then and had a bare metal re-spray when I last did it so itís over all condition is sound due to it being for about 90% of the time stored in an unused garage.
When the other year I did decide to get it done I was kinda just going to blow in the few rust spots, but Jay(7 eldest) didnít like the colour and thought I should paint it the same colour as Iíd just done his wheel chair, and Sam(the missis) thought the same and I was sort of thinking about it so I quite easily got talked into a colour change (again!)
Any way what with one thing and another most of this year nothing happenedÖÖ until the other month when the ball got rolling again!
So please find pictures enclosedÖÖ
basically the most of the inside bits have been painted, i've left out the bonnet compartment for now, as at this time i'm gripped in the horns of a dilema as wether or not to flip front it........ i later decide not to !
this was about 4 weeks ago.
OK, Iím doing this to show you guys what Iím up to, and as Iíve had the car for 18years, and Itís been on the road for erm well errr most of it, if I donít keep going you fine members can shame me into getting my sorry hide into the garage.
We moved the other year and Iím now the proud owner of a nice big double garage so I really have no excuses for not getting it done. It is with my family a constant source of entertainment and ridicule, mum : /snigger/ ìis the beetle done yet?î/chuckle/ LOL/, so I really do need to get it sorted!
Itís a 1971 1200cc beetle, been lowered ect ect , when I kinda got going on it a year or so ago I ordered engine parts to build a 2332cc so should be quite lively.
And last year I de-channelled the bonnet compartment as it had rusted beyond repair and sorted the couple of small rust spots that had appeared, I did paint it about 13 years ago red ën white, and when I first got it itís first mot it failed on all the usual bug bits, so that all got done, so pretty much it was restored then and had a bare metal re-spray when I last did it so itís over all condition is sound due to it being for about 90% of the time stored in an unused garage.
When the other year I did decide to get it done I was kinda just going to blow in the few rust spots, but Jay(7 eldest) didnít like the colour and thought I should paint it the same colour as Iíd just done his wheel chair, and Sam(the missis) thought the same and I was sort of thinking about it so I quite easily got talked into a colour change (again!)
Any way what with one thing and another most of this year nothing happenedÖÖ until the other month when the ball got rolling again!
So please find pictures enclosedÖÖ
basically the most of the inside bits have been painted, i've left out the bonnet compartment for now, as at this time i'm gripped in the horns of a dilema as wether or not to flip front it........ i later decide not to !
this was about 4 weeks ago.
