Saturday Baja progress. Bolted the new rear cross members to the floor pan. Drilled out the spot welds and removed the original rear cross members. Removed a little more of the heater channels. lots of bodges over the years so best to take it all out and start again.
Drivers floor pan fettled to fit the chassis and alignment checked against heater channel. Pinned in place for now. It’s already looking miles better with some fresh metal mocked up.
N/S floor pan fettled to fit the chassis, and heater channels bolted on to check alignment. Pinned in place for now until I can check the fit against the shell. Made an alignment tool for the pedal strengthening plate to make sure its installed in the correct place when I fit it to the new […]
I finished chopping out the old N/S floor pan and prepping the surrounding metal for the new pan over the weekend. The napoleons hat needs a new end grafting in but is otherwise rock solid: The lip on the spine looks great and needs no repairs: The rear support is also in good condition and […]
A productive weekend saw the shell and pan part company. Shell all braced for when I chop the heater channels out. The shell is currently resting on a temporary trestle until my steel arrives to make a dolly to move it around on. The pan looks like a great starting point. The frame head is […]
Picked up another load of beetle bits from the guy I bought the bug off. Today’s haul: a 1.2 engine, another set of wheels, all of the glass and a few boxes of engine bits!
This weekend’s job, unpicking the shell from the chassis. Historic patch repairs had welded the two together and so needed chopping out. Two patches loosely tacked in on the toe board chopped out: And patches on the other side of the panel: Followed by chopping out a bunch of patches along both heater channels: No […]
The Second road trip of the week over to the keeper of parts, David Howard on Hayling Island. Got a good condition drivers door, napoleons hat and arch repair. A family trip this time so stopped in at a farm shop for pumpkins and goodies.
The first of two road trips this week to collect parts for the baja project. This evenings journey, a 150 mile round trip up to Membury Services to meet Graham from fbivw to get the baja kit. A lovely chap, and he had this corker in tow too!
Front cabinets The shorter evenings have meant the front cabinet and under bed panel have taken quite some time, with only a few hours of good light. The cabinet carcass all cut and assembled: Max helping me out with the iron on trim: Shaping the top surface: And all installed in the van along with […]
