Company!
This weekend, we had company! Tom and Joan, some fellow members of the VW Club, drove up in their red New Beetle "Chigger" and checked out my Bug. Tom gave Steve lots of information about how we're to proceed from here.
It comes down to this...to get to the areas that need repair on the body, we're going to need to remove the body from the chassis. Also, the front end on the car is almost worthless and we'll need to replace it.
So, the next few weeks are going to be focusing on removing the body from the chassis. I started by removing all the fenders. Ugh! It doesn't look all that great with all it's fenders on, but without them, it looks just awful!
So we're planning on eventually maybe having a party...a "Body Lifting" party...and inviting the club over for hotdogs or something and getting help putting the body up on heavy duty sawhorses.
But first, the plan to get the new tires on remains the priority, at least for me. Steve finished grinding the rust off the other two rims, I got them coated with rust encapsulator and then primed and painted. Here's one that's primed, one that's painted.
After I get the new tires on these rims, we'll be able to roll the chassis out and back in to another section of the shop. We did a lot of cleaning and rearranging of the shop to prepare for that eventuality. Here's a bunch of stuff removed from the shop while we were rearranging. I bet my neighbors were worried we would leave it like this! Ha ha! No, it was all put away by the time we shut the shop up for the day.
Speaking of cleaning...I do that a lot. Steve likes it kept pretty clean in the shop, so I do a lot of sweeping and vacuuming with my little Dirt Devil handheld vac. We really need a shop vac but that will have to come at another time.
Steve was giving me a bit of good-natured ribbing when I got behind on the sweeping. See, cleanliness is very important to Steve.
Heh heh!!
I also tried to really clean the interior of the car...cleaned it with some Armor-all. It did a good job and Joan even asked if we'd replaced the door panels! As far as I know the interior of the car is original, except for one window knob.
It comes down to this...to get to the areas that need repair on the body, we're going to need to remove the body from the chassis. Also, the front end on the car is almost worthless and we'll need to replace it.
So, the next few weeks are going to be focusing on removing the body from the chassis. I started by removing all the fenders. Ugh! It doesn't look all that great with all it's fenders on, but without them, it looks just awful!
So we're planning on eventually maybe having a party...a "Body Lifting" party...and inviting the club over for hotdogs or something and getting help putting the body up on heavy duty sawhorses.
But first, the plan to get the new tires on remains the priority, at least for me. Steve finished grinding the rust off the other two rims, I got them coated with rust encapsulator and then primed and painted. Here's one that's primed, one that's painted.
After I get the new tires on these rims, we'll be able to roll the chassis out and back in to another section of the shop. We did a lot of cleaning and rearranging of the shop to prepare for that eventuality. Here's a bunch of stuff removed from the shop while we were rearranging. I bet my neighbors were worried we would leave it like this! Ha ha! No, it was all put away by the time we shut the shop up for the day.
Speaking of cleaning...I do that a lot. Steve likes it kept pretty clean in the shop, so I do a lot of sweeping and vacuuming with my little Dirt Devil handheld vac. We really need a shop vac but that will have to come at another time.
Steve was giving me a bit of good-natured ribbing when I got behind on the sweeping. See, cleanliness is very important to Steve.
Heh heh!!
I also tried to really clean the interior of the car...cleaned it with some Armor-all. It did a good job and Joan even asked if we'd replaced the door panels! As far as I know the interior of the car is original, except for one window knob.
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