Project No Money

Heres the first pics of my 72 beetle, still gotta get it home but have room in the workshop for it now so hopefully work can start this week

cool, one of those LE Harliquin models!

what are your plans bud

purpleronnie wrote:

cool, one of those LE Harliquin models!

what are your plans bud

Back to it's original white with forest green racing stripes, nice and low, dechromed, Satin black T-bars door handles and wheels

poss a rollcage

What about engine wise??

Mr Scoops wrote:

What about engine wise??

Got a 1600 with twin carbs but what ever I can turn up for little money to begin with

Looks solid enough fella, going to be ace! just don't let wimmen try and control your car future!
just stick with it, should never have sold the '02 IMHO!

I like 02's........a really understated model.......I remember one in Volksworld. White paint and lowered. Really subtle. It was bloody lovely.

O2's are great!! Brilliant handling flat screen and steel dash on the early ones......Damn I want another one now!!

Big Al your right should have kept hold of the O2 and got rid of the missus

its cool you're back into the scene ...sorry to have missed your 02 ....have you got any old pics?? ...

your chance to rescue and old school swing axle

nomates wrote:

its cool you're back into the scene ...sorry to have missed your 02 ....have you got any old pics?? ...

your chance to rescue and old school swing axle

Glad to be back!!! looking forward to gettin her on the road and she is gonna be staying!!

I found my old pics the other day as soon as i can access a scanner will get some up, even found a few with big al's motor and scoop's yellow 1300 in them

I haven't got any electronic copies of my 1300.
Wish I knew where it was. I would love to get it back.....

She's home now!!

Massive Thanks to Steve(nomates) and the Pikey's transit




Steve's reversing skills with a trailer are legendary


She don't look to bad thought i might be able to do a fairly easy rebuild and refit




Sits fairly low already



Lit'un has decided it's her beetle and had to have photo wiv 'her car' but start um young eh

Thought i'd get her in the workshop so i could get all the extra that came with her away and empty out everything that had been loaded into her.

Got her emptied out and in the workshop so decided to have a poke around it!!


Theres good bits and bad bits

Good bits new lowered beam and disc brakes framhead looks solid, 2 good interiors and loads of other new bits waiting to go on




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Under seat looks good

Bad bits, took N/S wings off bad repair to front and rear quarters and rear arch rotten out







Poor quality repairs to rear of floor pans



Gonna get the interior out, strip carpets and take off O/S wings next......
Think body will be coming off so it can be done properly

....good work dude ....its not too bad at all

Got another couple of hours on her today so stripped O/S wings off to see what had been hidden on that side

Front inner arch replacement is a bodge up same as near side so will have to come off and be redone

Repairs need to be made to heater channel where it mets front arch



Bottom edge of rear quarter looked good but turned out that the bottom edge was fiberglass


And previous repairs to heater channel closing panel still atached to floor pan, but closing panels have been replaced

rear corner has had a bad repair to quarter panel to in arch, plate has been put in but there are atill big holes around it and lots of filler


Haven't gone much further just took glass out screen surrounds are all good and rear cargo area carpeting, and the firewall is good



But did find find filler in the rain gutters so dug it out to find the were rotten but repairable

Looks like whoever done the work was a master at seam sealer/filler/fibreglass welding

fibreglass welding ........very skillfull ...and with beetles quite common too .....in the 70's there must have been a lot of fibreglass welders ..

Made most of yesterdays sunshine, pushed her outside and stripped out the interior and carpets....to find lots of seam sealer


Both rear arches are like this as is the rear cross member and where the heater channels meet the rear quarters......going on what i'd found out side this wasn't a good sign so set about digging it all out!!
Some of it turned out to be and inch or so thick

Under the sealer I found more bad news as expected.....alot of work has been done to the car in the past but none of it has been welded in properly it all only spot welded then made to look good with sealer, even around the seat belt mounting points



Basically it has a lot of repair panels put in that need to be finished properly or started again, Where the front end has been replaced they bulk head has not been welded to the inner arches and you can see daylight through it



The day did however have some positive points to it as i found that the floor pan is a good nick and only need one new repair and previous repairs putting right

So now i'm undecided, should I take the body off or not???

i reckon take the body off , you most the way of stripping the car down to nothing so the body off wont be much more work .

I agree, if you do find plates stuck wielding the body to the floor pan, they are only going to be tacked in anyway!!

Come on Dave, get her off and show us your underbelly!!

Theres only 2 repair sections that have been welded into the floor plan and they don't need alot to put them right...

And i've found repair that i need to do but would be easier i spose if the body were off........

depends how quickily you want it on the road and how good its got to be ....


but in any case ...its a lot easier to do good repairs with the body off

nomates wrote:

but in any case ...its a lot easier to do good repairs with the body off

Totally agree with that, But when i pulled my body of my pan there was more lerking that you cant see so be prepared

Recon thats the way to go then, think it mite be best to sort out some of the welding inside it first just to put some strength back in her, before I lift the body to stop her twisting

Just keep the doors shut

The past few days have been taken up breaking the donor car




and yeaterday was a non start as the welder wouldn't fuckin work properly so stripped it down to find that the gas was escaping at the switch so fitted it with a complete new lance and done a few test runs, works fine now

So then had to grind off the welding that I had started and gave up for the day!

Today I was determined to get some work done on her, got a few hours this afternoon so pulled the lump





Then i bit the bullet and took the body off





The pan looks pretty good Next up is to pull the box and the beam and strip all the paint off the pan