Finally a couple of hours in the garage

The gearbox went back in place. Everything's painted and new rubber boots in place. Still to do at the rear end is to install the brakes and supports for the air ride system.

Got almost all panels now

The only one missing is the duck pond behind the rear seat.
Start working on the car tomorrow.

Went out to the garage last Saturday. Had to build some stands to support the body while replacing the heater channels.



- Balocco

Some small work left on the chassis

Got new tie rods, bearings and boots for the transmission. Just som lowering left to do to call the chassis done.
Will see if the link pins needs to be fixed. Theres a slight play in them but it might go away after a round with the grease gun.

Two of our former garage mates moved out so we rearranged a few things. My car was moved to the opposite side.
Will start to work on it any day now since the work on the house is finally almost done.

Got a new split roof piece

I recently got a split front roof piece from Gurra. I have a roof with a three-fold sunroof and a split dash with the a-pillars cut of in the middle. The original plan was to merge the pillars like you would on a roof chop.

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The new roof piece will hopefully make the split conversion easier as the pillars are cut down by the dash. Another bonus is that it has the "hammer dent" unique to the split. The three-fold roof came from an early oval so it didn't have this dent.

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Rust sucks. I want to start on split conversion.

A picture of the new 62-pan

Here's a pic of the 62-pan that I'm going to use.

A fresh coat of POR15 on the flipside. I painted the other side a few days later.

This is the third car from our garage that uses these stands in a short time.

First it was PeCe's Notch, second came Thomas 68 beetle and now its the 59.

A variation on the old hoodride phrase.

Kind of explains how I feel about rust for the moment...

Rusty pan and heater channels

The rusty 59-pan. It was welded to the pan, but the heater channels were so rusty they needed close to no cutting to separate the body from the pan. That was a good thing actually since ALL bolts from the channels were rusted solid.

Almost nothing done this winter

The heater in our garage was shot in October as I recall.

Not much done with the car during the winter. As usual...

I just started to tear it down to handle the rust.

Rusty heater channel.

Rust...

More rust...

The new pan

The original pan is a little rusty.

Instead of changing the pan halves I picked up another pan in ok condition. On the good side the paint has been stripped so it's almost ready for a new coat. On the bad side two minor repairs have been done to it that are visible. I might redo them but I'm not sure.

The tear down - Not the original wings

Anorack / thermos time.

A mate from our garage said that the head light bucket indicates that the wings are from the oval era. I recogniced the colour as Jungle Green which was only available in 1955.

Finally inside "Der Schweinhaus" November 1st

Start of the new project.

A 59 that's going to be transformed to a split.

The 59 had been stored in a barn in southern Sweden for a long time until another member of our local club found it and towed it home. I bought it from him about two years ago.