Not much is made these days.. it’s simply too cold for me to even bother, but hey, thank god i have all the time in the world to make this car 🙂 But.. started the tedious work of scraping off years of old tectyl (rust protection) from the body, just to give a impression of how much work is needed to the top.
The weather reports are predicting more winter with ice and snow, so even if today was not for making anything on the beetle, i pulled the doors and turned it front in so i get get going on that end. Most of my mind is considering to make it right the first time, which will include a body off restaration, instead of patch it up, and get it running first?!?
Got to do some vacuum, and now i just need to take the last small dampening off the floorpans. Pulled all the windows out, and found the usual rust in the windscreen area. Pulled the tank out, and there was suprisingly not much rust down there, and as a bonus, someone did put in a new tank at some point 🙂
Started to clean up the floorpans today, and hey, not a single rust hole !!, but damn the old bitumen sounddampening was hard to get off. Can’t say the same about the rear panel, so decided to just cut it, and make an detacheable panel when time is. Hopefully i’ll get time to vacuum the floor tomorrow.
So.. now i just begin to disassemble the car, so that i can see what i have to do with. The engine turns over (Kind off) manually, but it feels like something is stuck inside, but hey whats to expect from a car that was last registred in 1998 !!
After cleaning out the car, i must say that it looked like S… !! The dude i bought it from, told me that the rust was minimal since there already had been made a lot of repairs.. He just forgot to tell me it was made by a blind monkey with no arms 🙂 Thruth is, that it probably was made by his son at the age of 16, who had the car as his first project. Damn, i hope he got better at welding 🙂
