Aircooled VW South Africa

so with the kango (aka rain dance maggie) pretty much finished except for a few more things, i decided to turn my attention to the sad looking salamander buggy lying outside that i bought a few months ago, thing is i needed a donor car and i couldnt bring myself to chop up a beetle to build her so i looked around and found this buggy thats running and has current licence and all paperwork up to date as a donor car ill post pics as i go cant wait to get started on it

some new tools

GREAT tool purchase!!

so i managed to get a lil time to work on the buggy today started stripping down the yellow body got the bonnet off pulled out the fuel tank tha had a slight leak in it, lol got all the old wiring out of it and all rusted nuts and bolts.


fuel tank small leak

Bugandy wrote:GREAT tool purchase!!

shot a friend of mine uses them in his panel shop eckons they been going for years no problems

snoeckie wrote:so with the kango (aka rain dance maggie) pretty much finished except for a few more things, i decided to turn my attention to the sad looking salamander buggy lying outside that i bought a few months ago, thing is i needed a donor car and i couldnt bring myself to chop up a beetle to build her so i looked around and found this buggy thats running and has current licence and all paperwork up to date as a donor car ill post pics as i go cant wait to get started on it

Nice build here. to bad you are in kzn. I would love to get my hands on this kestrel body after you have taken it of. have the same buggy an looking for a better body and the canopy and so on.

That's a HOLEY tank!

thanks, where about are you rudi46

managed to get the body off this evening

snoeckie wrote:thanks, where about are you rudi46

Gauteng.

ya that might be a mission to get it up there

snoeckie wrote:ya that might be a mission to get it up there

Yup but its sad that tour donor buggy looks much better than mine when u got it.

Good job so far. Keep it up

yeah trust me it looks much better in the pics than in real life it was pretty vrot ill post a pic of the interior but the chassis was solid so that was te main thing, thanks tho

had a few late nights lately so managed to make some progress with the chassis