'71 Beetle

Picked up this project off the Samba and pleading with the wife for about 3 months. About 75% complete when I got it- and I did make one of the worst decisions of my life and bought it without the engine because I didn't think I was ready to work with the monster of an engine that was running hot...Live and learn, but this thing has been a pure joy (most of the time) to tinker with and is always a blast to take out and watch the heads turn.




Will try to begin loading what I have done as time permits.

Looks like a cool car!

May take me a bit to sort out my pictures for posting as I worked not his project for about a year and then had to take a 2.5 year hiatus. Back stateside for about a 8 months now and just starting to get back into working on my projects again.

One of the first things I wanted to get to was the cracked windshield of which size is apparently not correlated the price...it took three attempts to get the cut right and the price tag was almost $800.

A neighbor guided me on the body work which I actually found as very therapeutic, but very time consuming. Just take your time with thin layers and a large sanding block.



And the spots that I wanted to fix kept expanding.

I finally stopped finding more spots to repair when I got to the rear apron.



For the paint a local body shop covered the rear quarter and back for ~$300, which was well within my budget and no complaints on the quality....too bad I would mess part of this up later when I shipped her cross country to a friend's house while I was away.