Aircooled VW South Africa

Barry, that looks awesome x10 !!!

Thanks guys.
Car is in primer now. Busy fabricating the windscreen frame.
Currently doing other people's work again - should get back to final prep next week & then see if I'll shoot colour myself of farm it out....

Barry.. You know you have a deadline,, the George show is coming up as well (Nothing like a lil motivation)

Lucky there's another George show next year then......

Man oh man that rocks !!

End results will be worth all the effort !!

Built a windscreen frame. Not 100% hapy with the look - may still bring a peak out at the bottom of the centre post & maybe radius the inside corners at the top of the outer ones. After that a bunch of sanding and polishing - any volunteers?

Wow bru like fully ek se

Go ahead, radius the corners, but as for the rest of it, BEAUTIFUL !

Barry, absolutely amazing craftmanship! But yes, I agree, the top outside (inner) corners need to be radiused. It will give it a much nicer and smoother look. But the rest of the design can not be faulted

I love the screen just as it is......

Barry, nice to say hi this morning and have a safe trip to George in the roadster!

Amazing what you can do with a piece of metal , good work.

whats the rules in SA with regards to no/removed fenders on a beetle? did you have the car COR'd and licenced before you started the conversion? i know in durbs you can possibly get fined for missing body panels, so i wanted to know if doing so how legal is the car? i would love to build a chopped volksrod in future with no fenders and a chopped roof.

Strict letter of the law requires tyres to be covered.
But then it also requires that you don't kill people,take bribes, buy priated DVD's at traffic lights, dump cigarette butts out of car windows, or exceed the speed limit...
I do know of cars that have gone through RWC test sans fenders and made it. Not in KZN though.


Just run cycle fenders mounted off the back of the hubs if it concerns you. Done right it really doesn't look bad at all. There is not a hotrod on the road in Aus without them and there are some kickass cars coming out of there.

Strict letter of the law requires tyres to be covered.
But then it also requires that you don't kill people,take bribes, buy priated DVD's at traffic lights, dump cigarette butts out of car windows, or exceed the speed limit..

Lol

One word Barry "AWESOME" Keep up the good work