Saturday, February 24, 2007

Spraying Max Meyer anti-rust

Today I sprayed some parts with Max Meyer anti-rust. Other parts need more work to become straight before spraying. I'm enough satisfied with the result. This is my first time for this kind of things...

Spraying Max Meyer anti-rust

Today I sprayed some parts with Max Meyer anti-rust. Other parts need more work to become straight before spraying. I'm enough satisfied with the result. This is my first time for this kind of things...



Monday, February 12, 2007

Body work...

While waiting to go on with the registration of this vehicle in Italy (it seems as difficult as a multiple birth), I went on with the body work, sanding and putting filler in the weldings and the critical areas. It's my first time I do this things by myself, and the job is not finished yet. I hope to do it right...


















I bought a bench on Ebay from an '86 doka for 69 euros including shipping (aus Deutschland). A temporary cheap way to have a seat here in the back. Not so difficult to adapt. Yeah. Thanks Ebay!



VW made the lower part of the windows slanted towards inside, so water stays here all the time! And rust become very hungry of metal. See here after some sanding. Lot of work to get rid of it...


Thursday, February 8, 2007

VW SPEED - March 2007

Third Place! Thanks to all VW Speed readers!

Water cooled podium:

Air-cooled podium:

Pic: "The Custom Beetle by Giulio Bardelli, the first from Italy to be recognized all over Europe, went all-in-one-go on the podium"

Text: "Here at VW-Speed headquarters were somewhat surprised about the third place -Giulio Bardelli's '83 Top Chop Beetle (Issue 11/06). Customs are not really in trend at the moment, but the project of the Italian seemed to be able to convince you."

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Birth Certificate

The Birth Certificate of my crew cab arrived! No extra infos respect to the ones I could extrapolate reading the plate inside the cab...