That's worth a thought I really need to take some "now" photos. Any links to a post to see said buggy?

I'll update that, buggy dealing, match making crack dealers! 

Buggy crack dealers the lot of you :p

Now who wants to buy a beetle shell?

  I only paid £800 for it, just gave someone £4k to mske it worse lol

He owes me more than I'll ever recover, around £6k

I'm not getting much work done yer buggers!

The guy (so tempted to name and shame) got a bollocking in front of an entire club meeting and almost run out of the scene. Paid in cash unfortunately and have been told there's little i can do for comeback. He's wrecking MG's these days so that's something I guess.

So my dilema is this, selling the body, a set of Rivieras, fibreglass wings, decklid, newton commercial carpet, rear seat blagh blagh will raise most of the cash for a buggy body and leave me with enough  parts to start a build. If I sell the bug I'm already behind having to source a floor pan (likely rotten) and if that's the case I might as well cash him in and walk away. Oddly I want to create something positive from 7 years of a very poor beetle owning experience. I'm not convinced selling the body will be successful though, who's gonna buy a heavily modified shell with no chassis?

Oh the dilemma.... I appreciate the encouragement and the honest opinions, even if you are tempting me with Doon shaped lovelies!

When I post the "after" images you'll see! The paint is a wreck

Maybe you're right, sell the car as a project and build a buggy from something new. Part of me wants to hang onto him and resurrect him though.

Hmmm, is it not just taking an age to load? Google+ seems to be taking forever today.

Oooh that's nice Looks like a lot of room in the back too.

I'm definitely a bit at a time build kind of guy, just need to get the body off the pan and sell it so i know how much cash i have to raise to for the buggy body. Can't seem to work out how much to put up the body for or even if it'll sell. £500 sound unrealistic?

https://plus.google.com/photos/116105830528982331257/albums/5443732469611491521 Here's the bug in question, pillarbox red is when i bought it, deep red is how it was when i picked it up from the resto, that condition lasted maybe three months before the paintwork began to go bad.

Added bonus of the yellow car in the gallery is using high back bucket seats which I have already Plus point, that's shaved £250 off the build cost, minus point, that's £250 toward the body gone 

Dammit and now I' have seen the Doon lwb buggy. Yee gods you lot are like air cooled crack dealers!

Think I am gonna take some photos of the doomed '69 and start a project build even if the first part is a tear down while you lot tempt me with fibreglass beauties

Fair point but there's no love left for the shell anymore. I'd rather someone else enjoy it and I find sone new love in something loud and open topped so the wind can blow through the hair I no longer have

Thanks for all the lovely welcomes

Oh yes location, West Philadelphia,  born and raised. On a play... no wait that's the Fresh Prince. I'm in Essex, out on the coast by tge nuclear fallout spead bybthe wind farms

Clearly my noob status is well earned and I had consumed too much red stag, yes the gt not manx

I think between here and Vzi my mind has been made up. Just got to get the shell sold