Aircooled VW South Africa

Awesome news manny. When are you back in SA?

I will only return to SA in January 2015.

Damn I was hoping for your sake that it would be sooner. Youre going to be hurting man. I went nuts when I wasn't able to drive mine for 3 weeks.

With a new production line being installed here in Angola, any time off is out of the question. The good part of it all come Jan/ Feb 2015 I should have at least six weeks of leave.
Since starting the build of the Black Sheila which is now in its fourteenth month and counting, I have not actually driven the girl.

Update:

Fuel tank installed, no mods done to the tank and steering column, column clears the tank.

That's great news Manny, and it's looking good.

noiiiiice............

A update August 2014'
Due to the NUMSA strike last month, very little work was done on the Black Sheila. I received an update from Garth on Friday and its seems its full steam ahead currently fitting all the trim pieces and preparing for paint.

Below the new front end

Below is the old front end.

Below Original Speedster front end

soooooooooooooo much better

Its freaking awesome, what a difference, hard to believe its the same speedy.

awesssssum.

Not just lower on the nose, but the headlights are closer to one another as well.

I need to tie up my loose ends so that I can strip mine down and get it to garth for the nose graft.

Do it. .. Do it now!

Firebird wrote:Do it. .. Do it now!

Too many other things to do first. It'll be one of the last things that I do before the respray.

I am glad you finally changed your mind to do the nose job, well done
Are you going to respray the same colour or a different colour?

I wish that I could do it now, but I just don't have the time.

Respray a diff colour..........aquamarine non-metallic.



I hate the current colour, that's why I'm not phased when I bump it, scratch it or mess paint on it..........yeah i've messed a lot on it.