Carrying on from my hello thread, some of this has happened over the last couple of months but I'll post anyway if your interested, want to be on the road before the end of August this year 





Steam cleaning to reveal what I've really got, floor pan is a mess body has more coats of paint that the fourth bridge


Only thing to do is a really good shot blast and see what's left

Always interested in build threads 

Back from the shot blaster the floor pans are shot




But being sorted + lots or grinding around the shocking tunnel weld including a 3mm plate on the underside
Couple of coates of 2k primer and top coat








Brakes having the same treatment

Trying to sort out picture posting

The body was in a bit of a state, I gave up counting but it was somewhere around 12 coats of paint removed and a couple of dings to fix
The last owner said something about it being used in a Cadbury advert years ago so the purple paint maybe something to do with that?

Had to bite the bullet with the bonnet and buy a new one







Found part of an old news paper under the ply dated 24th May 1993



Getting there final bits of filling, not painted for a few years so needing the practice

Looks like you've done a lot of graf there - well done.

Nice to see the orange coming off and it does look the Cadbury colour in places - although more 'regurgitated' in these photos !

I recall a buggy being sold on ebay a few years ago with a reference to Cadbury advertising. Would be great for you to get an image of it when on the advert.

Looks like you've done a lot of graf there - well done.

Nice to see the orange coming off and it does look the Cadbury colour in places - although more 'regurgitated' in these photos !

I recall a buggy being sold on ebay a few years ago with a reference to Cadbury advertising. Would be great for you to get an image of it when on the advert.

I've googled it but nothing comes up in the searches that could relate to this buggy, it was imported from Ireland a few years ago.

Painting!!
(Started off painting machines for work so done a few bits and pieces over the years, but not cars, we now powder coat so here we go)

I wanted Green and white so

High build primer rubbed back then

3 coats of primer wet on wet



Hand flatted

3 coats of metallic green base coat happy so far



2 coats of clear with green flake OMG the change never painted flake or anything like it



3 coats of clear Happy days  relief or what 

I did the tank as a test/ practice







White bits back from the shot blaster & powder coaters







Time to build it up

Pretty stunning.

Re Cadbury and beach buggys I see they are offering a ride in 'a dune buggy in Marrakech'.

https://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/578884/Sunset-private-jet-Cadbury-holiday/amp

But yours would have been involved a long time before this current ad campaign.

But here's are some Coke ones:

Been a busy week with very late nights

Body on
roll bars in
Fuel tank in
electrics coming on
bonnet on and off
Spot the mistake, but it's being sorted 

Spot the mistake, but it's being sorted 

Looking good but that hole that's been cut in the tunnel by the pedals could do with plating as it will really weaken it. You can get away with things like that on a full bodied Beetle but once the Beetle body's removed the chassis relies on the tunnel for most of its torsional strength.

Fuel tank.... wrong way round 

Looking good there.

Fuel tank.... wrong way round 

Looks okay to me...

If anything I'd say tank OK but maybe filler neck not matching up with the bonnet 

To do with fuel but non of the above

:-[Fuel gauge still on back order, no hole in the dash for it 

But will be sorted over the weekend