Sorry to everyone i haven’t updated this in a while, I have recently purchased a house (much in the same condition as the previous beetle i bought a bit broken but full of promise).
But i did come upon these pics of kombi’s in the Vic fires.
Anyway thats all for now i do have some new bits and pieces for the beetles that i need to take photos of, but no time with painting etc.. But soon both beetles will be with me and i can work on them both 😀
Finally had some more time off to work on my orig 1968 beetle. I need to get this shell into a move-able shell (shed where it is being stored is being sold). So I decided to clean her up and get that motor case looking shmick. After a few chats with people on the aussieveedubbers forum (and previously getting blasted by my other half about putting engine case in the dishwasher 😉 ).
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This is after several sprays of various degreasers, First off i used oven cleaner to get the basic dirt and grease off, worked good but the cheap $2 degreaser i sprayed on was way more effective, I also tried putting petrol into a sprayer and spray it, again it did work, but nothing like the $2 degreaser and a shot with my high pressure sprayer. Then coated the block with silver enamel spray (about $10 for a can). I did this because it looks cool but also the degreaser/oven cleaner seems to take the finish off the block.
I also started cleaning up the rear end of the pan same way as above.
Tempting to do a rat rod front end on her not sure yet.
Ended up with this welsh plug from when i was cleaning the engine block, downside is i have no idea where it is from :S hopefully someone on the AVD forums will be able to help me :P. Â Will be putting new seals in etc hopefully next week if i don’t drive to melb to get an engine.
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