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!
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Strip down
I managed to get a full day down the workshop today starting to strip down the bug.
Bonnet and dash area stripped.
Most of the panels at the front look solid in the right places but it needs all of the usual places which rust out on these. The areas that are bad (spare wheel well) will be getting chopped out for the baja kit anyway.
Rear all stripped out, I just need to pull the loom through. Some numpty cut through the loom when they repaired the quarter panel so we’ll need a new loom.
The luggage panel is generally in good shape but has started to go on the O/S:
And has had some bad repairs along the bottom edge:
I’ll repair these rather than replace as the surrounding metal looks good, and this is a baja so doesn’t need to be perfect.
Say hi!
Everyone please say hello to Iris’ little sister and next resto project, Myrtle!
A ‘73 beetle, so a year younger than Iris. She’s destined to be our off-road Baja Bug rig.
I won’t be starting on this for a little while yet as I need to finish up Iris’ interior first, but watch this space.
