Just like most of my life, everything comes last minute and this was no exception. Due to work I’m moving house while the car is in the most bits it’s going to be, not ideal but can’t be helped. Everything went in a box except the body and the pan, didn’t have a plan for…

Since time is always short I started to take small parts into work to clean up during my lunch breaks, lucky for me I work as an engineer so there is always a place I can go to get small jobs done for myself. The parts so far I’ve managed to clean and paint at…

Each and every post I’m making is another slot of time I have to work on the car. It’s slow going and sometimes progress isn’t very noticeable but plodding through and keeping my enthusiasm going is the main thing, especially when family and work come first. I got to the point where I had to…

So far a lot of my time has been taking up with taking apart and cleaning, here we go again…… Now that the chassis is back in the garage I can strip it down full ready to clean, finish welding and paint. So out with the camera again and time to take lots of detailed…

All the major work done, the chassis needed to get back to the garage. Mainly due to Wife’s instructions but also due to health of garden. It’s had been in the garden for 3 weeks so I had to devise a plan to get it out. The previous technique worked ok but that was when…

I was ready to start cutting but first I must take lots of photos and make as many measurements as I could because as soon as I cut the floor out I will have no nothing to work to. The car came with a RH floor pan half but it had been chopped and changed…

The big revile was a long time coming because there was something else I forgot to disconnect like the z link at the back but once out I had my first full indication on the amount of work I had to do before I start my body modifications. First task was to give it a…

Since the body was so far gone I didn’t think bracing it was a good idea because any misalignment in the body would be fixed in place when I come to rebuild it so I left it. Also I decided that leaving the passenger door in place was my best bet in keeping the body…

Having a look in daylight gave me a good indication on what I will be putting myself through. Not as bad as first thought. I was after a basket case and it was certainly that but it had one good high point, there was no previous repairs, no major patches or welding. The only bits…

Work in progress but coming soon will be details of my low budget, low space and low time VW Beetle crew cab pickup build. Low budget: there is no money so I’m using my inventiveness and only buying parts when the price is right. I’m expecting to visit friends and go to shows to source…