Bodytalk

It's body time, and its not looking to great....

Every bit of rust is stripped, wire wheeled down, rust converted, treated and primed, then weled sealed, re primed, and paimeted in several times....

TAKE THAT RUST!

Rear offside crossmember, FAIL.

Cut, weld, seal, treat, prime, paint...

NEXT!


6 hours more....

Gracie's Last Drive....

After a week of temporary storage for chassis and floor, we have moved into the new workshop and are beggining work.

The drive from Burgess Hill to Ringmer (Our temporary storage) was far from easy....

Let the games begin.

Pan to be stripped to metal, then primes and painted with 5 coats of Por-15.

Time to call it a day 13 hrs later and 26 hours into the project....

Coventry.....

Ok, so hour count is at 1 hour for the mmeting in the pub to decide on an action plan.

The chassis is, by the way, in Coventry...A few miles from Brighton.

A full day at work, then in the work van, off to Coventry.

18:00 - Leave Brighton for the lock-up in Coventry.

21:45 - At the lock up

22:30 - Leave for Brighton

03:00 - Back in Brighton

03:30 - At home

06:00 - Get up for work

Game on 10.5 hours into the project.... One chassis better off!

£100 in!

Results...

Dan has not only sourced us a workshop that can fit three cars, all to ourselves, with lighting, power and a key tag entry system...

But also a secondhand pan, professionally welded new pans either side, all genuine, since the work there has been no miles driven on it. Will need prep but...for £100 ...EPIC.


LET THE GAMES BEGIN.....

The plan....ish...

We need a new pan and various other parts, we need a space, we need time, we need plenty of time.


Whole new pans retail at £1200ish, and we are in total for parts looking at £2000....


Witha honeymoon to pay for, and a wedding and rental of a workshop with power, lighting, security and all in 35 days....

The, not so convincing, plan. . .

After a Pub meeting between myself, Dan Gravenor the over keen optimist, and Phil, We have decided to replace teh whole plan to a new, bare pan.

VW Heritage have new floorpans, which are good quality, for around £1200 and hold them in stock...

I will need to find a place to change a pan.... Time to do it whilst we both work full-time, have relationships and are seperated by 26 miles of sparce countryside.....

This could be fun......

Intro...

Phil, a budding VDubber has owned a 1972 1300 Beetle for a year. His wedding is at the beginning of August 2011. At the beginning of June, 2011, Phil takes his Beetle for it's MOT after paying £600 for welding.

When Phil looks for a pass, instead he finds 2 pages of failures - Mostly floorpan rot!

The 'Welding' turned out to be filler and underseal, a brake hose was split and there were a few electrical anomilies for good measure.

His car is his wedding car, has sentimental family value and is his pride and joy...

Oh dear....