My 67 1500 Bug- Renovation· Page 18 · International Vintage Volkswagen Forums

Robb
Guest Topic Starter

14 years ago

#341

decklid fitted.

doors will be painted and hung, then we'll move onto the roof. gonna be tight for stanford!

Robb
Guest Topic Starter

14 years ago

#342

quick update, bad photos as i was in a rush.

doors are both welded up, starting the prep today for paint hopefully.

while that was happening, i took out the front and rear screens, so while i was at it, took care of any surface rust

and finally a bad pic of my rechromed 67 only hubcaps!

Robb
Guest Topic Starter

14 years ago

#343

more work on the front and rear screen surrounds today

mot booked for next thurs at 2pm!

beefykeefy
Guest

14 years ago

#344

Good luck with the MOT, mine flew through last week no problems :beer:

Hub caps look great, yours is one of the few 67's, plus mine, that I've seen these on (Roy Wilson's doesn't 😛 )

Robb
Guest Topic Starter

14 years ago

#345

:lol:

yer i had noticed that Roys doesnt have the correct hubcaps. The guy whos painting mine said, you've gotta knock this Roy guy off the top spot :lol:

more progress today, i masked up the car while Alan primed the bare metal areas.

doors all welded, Alan will be prepping them tomorrow.

Dubster
Regular

14 years ago

#346

Good luck with the MOT, mine flew through last week no problems :beer:

Hub caps look great, yours is one of the few 67's, plus mine, that I've seen these on (Roy Wilson's doesn't 😛 )

beefykeefy wrote:

There was a german trader at Lavenham '08 who had a set of the correct '67 hubcaps for sale, Roy's car was parked next to mine at the time and I did toy with telling him that they were available, but I was newish to the '67 scene at the time and it felt a bit cheeky :oops:

Your car is looking great Robb, well done :D

I would love to see it in the flesh this year, unfortunately due to family illness I doubt I'll be showing at all this year, in fact I haven't even bothered getting my '67 out of winter storage, hopefully I'll be back in time for Lavenham 2012.

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December 1966 UK 1500 Beetle

Robb
Guest Topic Starter

14 years ago

#347

thanks :)

another long day at the workshop.....

started scuffing the roof ready for paint

Alan has finished prepping the drivers door

roof all prepped

we then unmasked it all, blew it off and started the re-mask

its in good company

you can just see it all masked up ready for beige in the morning. doors will also get primed. more tomorrow.

54 Gertie
pre67vw Junkie

14 years ago

#348

More photos of the MK2/250 please.

:thumbup:

William

Robb
Guest Topic Starter

14 years ago

#349

bored of my 67 already?! :lol:

the mini is a 64 original cooper s. the jag is also OG.

Robb
Guest Topic Starter

14 years ago

#350

another day closer.....

spot priming the doors

car fully masked

doors primed

car spot primed, and as i left at 5pm, alan was gearing up to put on a couple of colour coats, so that it can dry overnight, ready for the windows to be fitted in the morning

mot at 2pm tomorrow!

54 Gertie
pre67vw Junkie

14 years ago

#351

bored of my 67 already?! :lol:

the mini is a 64 original cooper s. the jag is also OG.

Robb wrote:

No, not at all. Just I've currently got a 'thing' for floaty old British boats. The 250 would be my preference over the Jag, V8 FTW. :drool:

William

Robb
Guest Topic Starter

14 years ago

#352

the other room in the workshop, theres a 150k Aston Martin DB4 :drool:

54 Gertie
pre67vw Junkie

14 years ago

#353

the other room in the workshop, theres a 150k Aston Martin DB4 :drool:

Robb wrote:

:drool:

It's more 'floaty' cars I'm liking right now however, something I can place in 'drive', and just waft around in.

Some day...

Anyhoo, back to far inferior little German cars. :thumbup: Paint is looking good now Rob, is that now the hole outside painted? Shame the roof needed painting after all that. I'm amazed how well you can get paint to match sometimes. I spent ages trying to find a join line on Roy's blue '67 and found nothing.

William

Robb
Guest Topic Starter

14 years ago

#354

thanks, yer we had to paint the roof, as the colour match was quite different, and also the paint on the roof had gone thin, polished through to the primer in places.

if i make it on sunday, there will still bits i wanna do to it before stonor park, but just running out of time.

just remember, before you compare mine and roys car, check out the underneath compared to his ;)

:lol:

beefykeefy
Guest

14 years ago

#355

Blimey, this is really going to the wire for Stanford :omg:

Hope you can make it, I'm dragging the family along too :twisted: Not sure whether I'll bring the Beetle though...

Good luck.

Robb
Guest Topic Starter

14 years ago

#356

it has to make it! doors wont be topcoated till this afternoon, so itll be mot'd with them in primer :lol:

like i said, theres bits that will be done after stanford, isnt there always something to do?

beefykeefy
Guest

14 years ago

#357

it has to make it! doors wont be topcoated till this afternoon, so itll be mot'd with them in primer :lol:

like i said, theres bits that will be done after stanford, isnt there always something to do?

Robb wrote:

Hope to see you there - just out of interest, do you have to pre-book to show a car, or is it a case of just turning up on the day for Stanford?

And bloody well done! :thumbup:

PS, you gonna park next to Roy? :wink:

Robb
Guest Topic Starter

14 years ago

#358

thanks, it will need a bit more finessing, but dont they all?

you have to book your car in, and are allocated a spot, so who knows where i will be.

not sure mind will be a patch on Roys. I just wanted a clean car.

went in this morning to start wet flatting the roof, and then Alan mopped the roof.

then with 5 mins to spare, mot time!

it passed!

straight back, and we whipped the doors off, then started mopping the roof some more and started the wings.

doors will be painted tomorrow, then mopped and assembled sat.

beefykeefy
Guest

14 years ago

#359

^^^^

Money shot :smile:

Looks bloody lovely in that pic on the ramp :beer:

harveypj
Stock "Wolfie" Smith

14 years ago

#360

Hope to see you there - just out of interest, do you have to pre-book to show a car, or is it a case of just turning up on the day for Stanford?

And bloody well done! :thumbup:

PS, you gonna park next to Roy? :wink:

beefykeefy wrote:

Pretty sure you can enter on the day if the class is not full or to fill a cancelations/no show Just don't get free entry to the show

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Stock......the new custom

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