Aircooled VW South Africa

Grabbed a few masonite boards.....


Mark out the shape from the old doorcards on cut new front and rear accordingly

Recover them with diy


And install

Next up was replacing all the petrol pipes by the tank due to constantly getting a strong fuel smell inside the car

Remove all old pipes




New pipes

After 47years of use the front seats were completely stuffed especially the seatbacks were all broken.


So we wanted to replace them but with a seat with a high backrest
Got a set of Kia picanto front seats for cheap.


Only problem is they are a little too wide to fit inbetween the heaterchannel and the pan tunnel

By using the C. A. D method I made a template loosely based on the Corbeau seatframes where it attaches to pre existing holes in the original seat rails
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ_X7FbeKhU



CAD=cardboard aided design

Made the frame out of 25x3mm flatbar






All fitted

Thats the way to do it enjoying working on the car learning and saving money in time your skills will be useful to you.Good job.

Were those seats not from. A type 3 or ghia,....their seats are wider on the rails than beetle,.....????

Haans

Haans wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2019 5:53 pm Were those seats not from. A type 3 or ghia,....their seats are wider on the rails than beetle,.....????

Haans

No, the replacement seats came out of a Kia Picanto

OOOOookkkkaaaa!!!

Haans

buggyfan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:35 pm ToyIng with the idea of converting this back to a Baja/open top or closed top /as i dont feel comfortable with the idea of 2 kids on the back'seat with no real form of protection aeound or above them whatsoever

10years later and the youngest all grown up we're back to the same problem