Project Variant.......Continues

Stephanus · Post by **Stephanus** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:48 pm

Got mine a week ago, apparently its a '67. Had to get her home on a trailer. Planning to pull the engine.

Biggie19 · Post by **Biggie19** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:33 am

Stephanus wrote:Got mine a week ago, apparently its a '67. Had to get her home on a trailer. Planning to pull the engine.

Congrats!!!, Nice to see more Variant projects

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Would love to see pics!
Im also gona pull the engine soon, I striped the fenders this weekend, found a few bad rust spots

Stephanus · Post by **Stephanus** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 8:46 pm

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/839/day1.gif/ is where i saved it. I don't know how to paste it here yet but i'll get the hang of it.

Biggie19 · Post by **Biggie19** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 10:48 pm

Shes a beauty! body looks good, but you missing side trims,
whats your plans for her?

Stephanus · Post by **Stephanus** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:35 pm

My son has plans for her since it's "his" car. I want to restore as original as possible. He wanted to drop the chassis and put air suspension in (until i showed him the price of those kits), new VW rims, I see Volkspares advertised some Raider wheels in the S&S mag in January. But for now, both of us just want to get the motor running and I'll be going to Kaya Sands this weekend looking for body parts. There will definitely be a respray involved. The upholstery is still pretty good but needs some attention. The top part of the dash has to be redone. (there is no bottom part). The wiring is a mess. We plan to start our project this weekend. Probably start with the engine.

Blitzkrieg · Post by **Blitzkrieg** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 8:38 am

Stephanus wrote:My son has plans for her since it's "his" car. I want to restore as original as possible. He wanted to drop the chassis and put air suspension in (until i showed him the price of those kits), new VW rims, I see Volkspares advertised some Raider wheels in the S&S mag in January. But for now, both of us just want to get the motor running and I'll be going to Kaya Sands this weekend looking for body parts. There will definitely be a respray involved. The upholstery is still pretty good but needs some attention. The top part of the dash has to be redone. (there is no bottom part). The wiring is a mess. We plan to start our project this weekend. Probably start with the engine.

Just do air! There is no better feeling than making that car scrape frame

Biggie19 · Post by **Biggie19** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:37 am

Stephanus wrote:My son has plans for her since it's "his" car. I want to restore as original as possible. He wanted to drop the chassis and put air suspension in (until i showed him the price of those kits), new VW rims, I see Volkspares advertised some Raider wheels in the S&S mag in January. But for now, both of us just want to get the motor running and I'll be going to Kaya Sands this weekend looking for body parts. There will definitely be a respray involved. The upholstery is still pretty good but needs some attention. The top part of the dash has to be redone. (there is no bottom part). The wiring is a mess. We plan to start our project this weekend. Probably start with the engine.

Sounds good!!!

What colour you planing to spray her?
Are you going to replace the engine or do a recon?

I agree with Blitzkrieg, Air would be awesome!, I also want to do it, but its costly!!!

Stephanus · Post by **Stephanus** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 5:20 pm

I am planning to recon the engine. First time I'll attempt something like this. I found out in the meantime (from the registration docs, and it's confusing to a layman

) the first date it was liable for Registration was January 1967 but the Vin number starts with 369 which means it is a 3(type)69(model). Now to buy engine parts - is it crucial, whether or not, it's a '67 or a '69? I'd appreciate feedback if you know about this stuff.

Ron&Gill · Post by **Ron&Gill** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 6:34 pm

Biggie19 wrote:I Finally got my Variant square back!!!, cant wait to get started!

Congrats, lovely car. Good luck with the project.

Squareback (a nickname) is a hyponym of Variant.It's like saying "My car is crimson red."

Biggie19 · Post by **Biggie19** » Tue May 28, 2013 10:04 pm

Helloooozzz everyone!

Havent posted anything on this forum in a long while,
I hope you all are doing well!

Anyways... finally got into doing some work on my variant again,
Continued to strip her, she doesnt look to bad,

Found a couple of spots of Cancer in the floor pan, Im hoping someone has a donor floor pan for me

It feels good to to work on her again!

Here are some pics

Blitzkrieg · Post by **Blitzkrieg** » Wed May 29, 2013 6:49 am

come and visit sometime dude, you know where I live.....good to see some progress on the car

Biggie19 · Post by **Biggie19** » Wed May 29, 2013 2:11 pm

I will hopfully make a turn by you on the weekend.......Thanks bro!

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