Aircooled VW South Africa

Hi

Herewith some progress on the restoration of my 1964 "TOY" . No rust and no body filler restoration.

Furthermore the '67 Splittie will be going in for bead-blasting Saturday 29 Jan '11.

Dolf

Bonnet looks good,,,,or is it a fender... ...is it just me or are ur pics very tiny,,,blow them up a bit,wanna see what u doing...

This is the body shell. Will upload bigger photos later.

Hi Dolf,
Its looking good.
Looks like us OKKIES in PE are going to show them how its done.
Herman.

What etching primer will you be using on the metal, and what grit paper will you use to rough-up the surface before spraying your etching primer?

The rims were painted but had to do it over as perl white was on outside and clashed with the white wall tyres. Repainted again and looks better

Old floor pans were replaced with halves from Volkswarenhaus (Germany), bad service overall

Hi Dolf,
Welcome back, was wandering how the beetle was going.

The wheels look good now, I think you did the right thing.

I take it the car is going to be two tone light green and perl white. ?????

How did the blasting go, did you get a good job done.

Herman

Hi Herman
Yes it's gonna be 2 tone as you mentioned. Sandblasting was a disaster, damaged the panels and redid all work manually again.

Sorry to hear about the blasting, but the project is looking good.

Hey ... the "OU MAN kan nog ne!

You will have a excellent car there when done.

But please keep us posted, will only inspire others to keep going....

Thanks

Herman

Yes was so busy with the actual work and did not have time to update.
I will post more photos in due time