Aircooled VW South Africa

Okay, so the Yellow-Thingy-me-Bob is finally getting some attention.
It's difficult working on 3 Projects at the same time.

Here's how I found her:




.....and then a good old clean-up and wash!






Time to start stripping and prepping for a total makeover and respray!!!!!!!

The stripping is the easy part........




BUT IT'S THE SANDING THAT KILLS YOU!!!!!!!!!











Needless to say that I became a little yellow man from Mars, only to enjoy a good glass of mine by my SP.

Even the dog could not keep his nose clean on this one!

Nice job man, keep up the good work. btw.. whats ontop of the beetle's roofrack?

Thanx YvaneS........hahaha, I was expecting that someone would ask.....it is in fact a reindeer made from wire!!!

Looking good!

What is the next colour?

Pine, I decided on Pearl Antracite Black Metallic (large flakes) basecoat and then a clear-coat.
The bonnet will be carbon fibre as well as the top section (cone-part) that's currently in grey.
I will finish off with billet aluminium striping on the areas over the existing grey (which will then be carbon)

A final touch will be the logo on my surfboard (Safari Spider), except the spelling would be Spyder in billet aluminium on top of the carbon fibre.


Any suggestions from your side and this site will be greatly appreciated!!!!
I might have an idea of what I want to do, but if I throw the concept in the air, only great suggestions can come from great knowledgable giants

good work, but I do have to wonder.... how can you work on a VW/Porsche while wearing a Fiat cap?

Btw, yellow means you are chicken

Dude, that's a genuine Scuderia Ferrari cap I won on 5FM!!

Chicken.................................Nobody calls me chicken (like in Back to the Future).....lol.........that's why I am changing the colour dude!

and yet you wear it when you work on your car.... should be in a display

True dude, TRUE!
I must admit that I did not think I'll have that much dust and yellow on me!!
Luckily, the cap came out unscathed.

Okay, so now it's time for filling and primer..........and then the wet-flatting that will leave me without fingerprints and with sore arms.
It's a wax-on-wax-off Danielson situation ....... (sigh)

Bugger 'tuning' a Red Thingy-me-bob at Zwartkops

Wow, that's a stunning finish!!!!! Thanx 4 sharing Dr Watson!

Bugger is bigger than the car!!

Bugger is indeed too big for the shortened pan!

Okay, so it's gone with the yellow and the primer is done!!!
Very funky camouflage, guess it's ready to be a army dune buggy!!!



NOW THE WET FLATTING STARTS!!!!!