Aircooled VW South Africa

Update
I took this weekend to get the ball rolling again
some parts i found is the fusebox and ignition switch these are still available from Bosch and is an exact match to the original
I bought 20 liters of resin, gel polish release agent and me and david got suck in First we closed all the holes with masking tape for te small ones,hardboard for bigger ones and 0.5 galvanised sheet for others. I used plasticene for blemish filling and the making of fillets. once this was done we polished everything with cobra polish and coated it with release agent



if only rust repair was so easy but the gel forgives much

I released some parts from the moulds
The rear engine bay

It will need lots of work still
The under bonnet

Lastly I took an non invasive mould from a working cars door


all for now

Nice! I can't wait to see the result of this. It looks so easy!

Yes, you do make it look quite easy! Hope those moulds can handle another couple of copies

what a way to spend woman's day. Working on a special woman

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice, I love the attention to details Armand.......So you're going with the later style dash?

The dash will be modded to 58 specs which means that the headlight and choke switches will be above and not below the instruments the clock hole in the center of the dash will just be filled. that dash is from a '60 356b the rest seems identical
A little more happened today the dash top is in gel and the lower engine tray is being moulded
Armand

so what's the budget/ target for the project?

flatfourfan wrote:so what's the budget/ target for the project?

Can you say 'bottomless' or 'the sky is the limit'?

I dunno, I wouldn't say that...............decently built/ specc'd replica speedsters almost always get more that what's been pushed into them.

I think Armand has more or less the same approach as me with HW2 ie - build it for yourself, regardless.

I specifically try not to keep track of all my expenses, because it might just happen that one would add everything up one day, and then it would not make sense anymore.

But on the other hand, perhaps it would be better to keep track of money spent on the 356 rep, to get more or less an idea what a second and third car would go for?

Pine wrote:I think Armand has more or less the same approach as me with HW2 ie - build it for yourself, regardless.

I specifically try not to keep track of all my expenses, because it might just happen that one would add everything up one day, and then it would not make sense anymore.

But on the other hand, perhaps it would be better to keep track of money spent on the 356 rep, to get more or less an idea what a second and third car would go for?

I agree with regards to building it for yourself............previous beetle had 65k in it, I sold it for 25k.............but loved every day in that car.

Pine wrote:I think Armand has more or less the same approach as me with HW2 ie - build it for yourself, regardless.

I specifically try not to keep track of all my expenses, because it might just happen that one would add everything up one day, and then it would not make sense anymore.

But on the other hand, perhaps it would be better to keep track of money spent on the 356 rep, to get more or less an idea what a second and third car would go for?

Your blue one on order?!?

JohnHoffe wrote:Your blue one on order?!?

Pine wrote:

JohnHoffe wrote:Your blue one on order?!?

Is that a pic of Monica Lewinski witholding evidence again?