lol, NO, i'll hit my head on the nice padded grant steering wheel. I'll just have to hose off the passenger side of the dash, and then hide the body .

Thanks for the comments. Its a little wrinkly around the edges, and a few creases here and there, but i can live with that. That stuff is hard to work with, with out bending it. I got the roll of aluminum from hompedepot, next to the shingles. I believe its called flashing. I had to sort thru several rolls, before i found the one with the least dents and scratches.


I was thinking of drilling holes around the edges, and bolt some stainless steel bolts around, mostly for looks, and to also hide the passenger side bottom corner (the alumunum peeled off there, and created a bubble on the corner, you can kinda see it in the pic). But not sure how it will look. Or maybe even use some aluminum angle iron, along the edges, then use bolts, again mostly for looks (but to also cover up the slightly wrinkled edges. What do yall think?

Yesterday morning I went to Pull-A-Part on Buford Hwy. and gathered up the A/C hose ends needed to hook up the A/C compressor, condensor, drier and inside unit with the blower.

Last night I went by Stockornaut and arrived just before everybody from the "Boltsdragen Club" were about to take off for the cruise to Mestizo's. Excellent turn out and some very nice bugs were in attendance. Maybe next time I'll be able to make it in my one of my two bugs.

Just before he left Billie informed me that my new headliner had come in. He also mentioned he will be working at Stockornaut full time from now on. That will be great for the VW community but we all need to get out the word and make the effort to do business with Stockornaut to help it survive as anyone who's had a new small business knows the rent and power bill come so damn regular. There is no question about Billie's knowledge and willingness to try and help people out so we need to support his business since it's a full time thing now.

This morning I went to "Gainesville Radiator & A/C" to get the hoses made up so I can A/C the waterbug. Proud of custom hoses they are as well as crimping the ends but they are cutting me some slack. I lucked out because the fellow there likes the waterbug project and thinks it's cool. It's going to be cool when I turn the A/C on. I love A/C more and more the older I get.

Here are some pictures:

http://picasaweb.google.com/bertfoster/Waterbug#

Or a photoshow:

http://picasaweb.google.com/bertfoster/Movies#5351393633462410562

I changed out the wheel cylinder and the adjustment gears on the left side of the rear (where im having the big problems) drove it on the highway Good got 5 min from the house and locked up again!!! so now I think Im gonna try to change the master cylinder, maybe that will work???? IDK

got an old speedo for free. plan on using it to my dune buggy. started tinkering with it and figured out how to reset the mileage. pretty simple.

lol, well, since pretty much everything on the dune buggy will be new (cept for body and frame), i figure it would be nice to know how many miles i put on it. also, looking at the way its made, it looks like it would be pretty easy to take another junk speedo, do a bit of welding and stuff, and make it go to 100,000 miles instead of just 10,000 miles.

Metal work and a little Bondo yesterday...now blocking and sanding today.

cruised to work in Toby, still have some tuning to do on these carbs... but damn this thing has some power brought my heart rate up a few times

On the way to work I ran into a guy in an orange super pushing it to a hill so he could roll it off on Pat Mell rd heading towards Atlanta Rd. It looked pretty good. I helped him out a little by not letting the traffic get up on him.

Drove it home from the body/paint shop The repairs and paint came out great! I'll get the trim back on and door back together in a day or two and get some pics. Now I need to get on the phone with the classic car insurers and compare rates.