Ok im about to leave for a 6oo mile round trip in the landrover :cry: to pick up the 49 chassis. As you may remember when we were all looking at the shell on ebay, the chassis had been sold seperatly many years ago, well ive got it back! It turns out that although these two halfs of the car were together for many years and are both '49 in date. they are not the original pair from the factory. Its difficult to shed much light on this, but from what ive heard from many previous owners the original body was damaged beyond repair some time in the late 50's/early 60's and so my shell was put on to replace it!

I feel slightly i'll at this moment in time as i think this is going to jepodise the whole project with regards to originality. Do i now continue to spend all this money or do i just finish the car off with cheaper oval parts or indeed now use the deluxe trim. Obviously any ideas of the car being worth £10k are out of the window???
Please, please help, what do you think the car will be worth when finished, bearing in mind its history!

I feel like a bit of a plank at the mo, laugh at me if you want, is this car a lost cause?

Getting back to the subject, anybody know of any oval wings for sale?

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Lee,
My advice, for what it's worth, is to forget how much you will be able to sell it for once complete. (Unless this is your motivation for restoring it :cry: .) If you do you will never do the job correctly. I'll have spent more restoring my oval than I'd get for it if I was to sell it. But that's not important to me, (But don't tell the Mrs :wink: ) Build it as best you can with as much correct stuff as possible and don't rush it. If I remember rightly, George's '50 took about 7 years from when he bought it, to when he first drove it. (And it was worth the wait 😃 )

Chris

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Dont lose enthusiasm!! I only posted the wings, as if I can do it (well Dave's welding skills here actually) then you certainly can!! You are ahead of most of us as you are tackling all the welding yourself. So you are going to save a fortune on bodywork. My budget has been pretty low for mine, virtually all parts and just actual welding time labour.
A split is easy in comparison to most cars! Your mk1 will be more complex! (mk1's are ultra cool by the way, even though we can't mention that here! :lol: )
God, I'm a dizzy woman and I havent got stuck yet, so it's a breeze for you!
The hardest part is the correct parts and the answers you get on this forum are all good regarding that as there are some great guys who really know the answers.
'Standard' is also cheaper and more simple than 'deluxe'
You have got a '49 floor and body, which is correct regardless of the body no and chassis no being from the same car! Who's really going to ever know that anyway! Or care!
The car will look right.
Mailing you about the trim holes
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Just think how proud you will be to finish this car. There are'nt many 20 somethings who have restored a split!!!! And you definitely can, its easy!!

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Thinking about it, you will make a huge amount of extra work if you want to deluxe it as you have no headlining/interior trim 'teeth' in your car, up in the rear corners either side of the window, around the door frames, you would have to weld something in to do the job and that could end up looking messy once it's trimmed as it would have to be welded in exactly the right place to work. Also the extra cost of fabric etc. etc.
Standard is great, you can show your bodywork skills as much of the upper interior of the car will be a painted finish.
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4 YEARS and 9 MONTHS

Thanks, i nearly had a wobbly moment earlier. Oh and Mk1s are cool arnt they, shhhh you cant tell anyone i said that, did you like the picture at the start of this thread?

As for time limit, well personally i dont think a car is 'ever' finished, George i bet u agree with me here! As ive always said id like to get it to the lavenham show 08. Obviously it wont be complete, my idea is to use oval parts if i cant find the split ones, then swap them over when ever i source the split parts, i can also then sell the oval parts on again!

I dont plan to sell her, but then again i totally disagree that i have to loose money to make it good! Also id like to point out...isnt everything for sale if the right price is offered. Id sell my house if someone wanted to part ex a Miura SV!

Ok so im off tommrow night to Carlisle. 650 mile round trip from mine, 12 hours in my plush comfortabley furnished landrover 110 pick-up...it has an interior light. to collect the chassis!

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Sounds like you have a plan!

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Well I think for the backs i'll use the wolf part and either graft it in or use it as a template against the wing and use my pannel beating equipment. I might practice on the present wings! Id rather use the hammers than weld as it will then be free of any imperfections!

As for the fronts I can simply weld the grilles up 😃 , so all im left to do is sort the flaring where it meets the running board! Do wolf make this section, or am i just going to have to make it up from scratch?

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put a big lump of ally at the back of the hole when you weld it will take away the heat.plenty of wet rags to.

Are you talking about doing this to pattern wings? I thought you were going to use George's Karmann as your benchmark? You'll be a long way short of the mark before you even get going...

As has been said before...

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I dont know why you've concluded that, i thought i made it clear that my intentions are to source oval wings and adapt them. Patterns are out of the question!

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Sorry, my mistake then - If you source early oval wings then the back part of the front wings will be correct, no need for panel beating (thats what made me think you were using pattern wings)

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Lee, Quick! there's a good split wing for sale on the Samba at the moment...

Only $390 (Located in Finland)

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=365401 

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