Out With The Old In With The New
So I just became a member of the Volksrod crew and I notice that the intial picts of the 71 were no londer up on the site. I have reposted them here.
A quick update after the jump
Over the weekened my uncle David and I picked up a parts car for the 71 VW project. Its all rusted out but it should give me a good base in which to learn a little of air cooled engins. I am really excited about it and it adds a nice little addition to the junk yard I am starting in the back yard. To go along with the engin I picked up this book to go with it.
Out with the old
In with the new
Upon getting the car home Paul and I welded in the new floorpans that I got from JC Whitney. This was my first experience with a wire fed welder and I burned threw the pans. However Paul was there for the resuce. I have to admit they look pretty good. More support than I thought as well. From what little I know about the pans thus far I would recomend them. After a quick 3M body sealer I think the pans are good to go.
From there I sanded down the flake from the pitted rust and brushed up some Conquest Rust Converter. I really like this stuff. It was like playing with the old color form cars from matchbox. The chasie went from rust, to green, to purple, to black in a matter of min. This will go a long way to helping the car prolong its life.
The next step it to paint the chasie. I am going to go with a chasie black that I can pick up from my local auto paint store. After that I have to figure out how to get the chasie on its side in order to do the same thing to the bottom of it.
