PiL's VW- The building of a Beetle race car

This is the build of my replacement race car. I crashed in the original car after a blown rear tyre and just two (and a half!) runs in it. I hope to update weekly even if I've only made a small amount of progress. Drop back and see how it's going.

Sunday, 27 May 2012

No work this week

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Weather was too good to miss.....Sorry!
Sunday, 20 May 2012

More rust removal

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As the title says, more rust removal from inside the chassis spine this week so no pictures. Same technique as described in my previous post...
Sunday, 13 May 2012

Getting rid of the last of the rust

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I've now got a couple of sessions of cleaning off the last of the rust. This is inside the chassis spine and concentrated on the lower p...
Monday, 7 May 2012

Marking up for the cover tabs

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This week I'm marking up in preparation to weld in the tabs that will hold the covers. First up is to mark and drill the covers for th...
Sunday, 29 April 2012

Fabricating the cover mounts

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This week is about making the tabs for the cover mounts. Started off with some Camloc products. I thought I'd need seven but, after ha...
Sunday, 22 April 2012

Finishing the second cover

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With the lip panel made up it was time to trim the centre, in the same way as I did with the first cover. Just making sure everything li...
Sunday, 15 April 2012

Trimming the cover and fabricating the lip

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Cover is finally trimmed to size. This was done by removing very small amounts of material then "trying for size" a number of time...
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