Aircooled VW South Africa

Thanks Alex20, thanks for the compliment, i've been tempted many times to go full, cal-look, but decided to stick to resto-cal for this one, my dad has a full cal-look '57 with one piece windows front and to be honest he said he is replacing them with stock windows when we revamp them one day, they rattle and leak quite a bit, might be because of the installation obviously but to be honest i kinda like the little vent windows, interior will also be stock standard apart from vintage speed shifter and some extra guages.


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Grilles will be painted body colour


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OK, where did you find those gauge grills?

wow !!!! this looks superb man

62RestCal wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2017 5:32 pm


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Love the gauges. Where did you get them from?

Tony Z wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2017 6:14 pm OK, where did you find those gauge grills?

I'm going to try and make some custom ones. Will keep you posted

I baught the grilles from a guy at one of the Ferdi's swop meets. The guages i baught from ISP West, they are VDO internals, very nice quality


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62RestCal wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2017 9:01 am I baught the grilles from a guy at one of the Ferdi's swop meets. The guages i baught from ISP West, they are VDO internals, very nice quality


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Thanks .... but the prices ... holy mary

I don't pay any shipping at least but ja, what baby needs baby gets!


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Mooi


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Some more update on my project, the OG steering wheel was in "okay" shape but seeing as i had to graft a new indicator stem onto the original i would have to match up paint for it anyway so i decided to go ahead and fix up all the cracks on the steering wheel. Went with Chris Valone's method of using epoxy putty to fill up all the cracks, i opened them up with a rotary tool first so as to get more material deep into the cracks, finished off with high build etch primer and 2k paint, also did the turn signal stem and steering tube in the same light grey, this will also match all the other grey molded fittings and knobs. Horn ring is original and just cleaned properly.


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The pratley putty worked like a charm and should be strong enough to hold up with the flex of the steering wheel, it smoothes out real easy even before it sets, some salyva on the finger works best . Then two coats etch and on to paint


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