the flat and chrome combo works sooooooo well... still in love with this project

.. :)

Got some more done last night :)

Doors



Tried on some of the trim



And finally the hood

happy new year !! looks great, more please :)

:( where did everyone go?

I like it very much, except for the wheels. They are a lite bit too much out of straight position in my opinion.
But in total it looks very nice
Keep up the good work

No more updates??? This is a nice project to follow!

yeh it's about time for an update..

:( i miss the updates

Thanx :)

They are supposed to be "a bit too much". I want the car to look kinda "Cartoonish" ;)
But things will happen during this spring. So follow the project and see if you like the final product. :)

Guys!
Long time, no see. Well, I'm back in business again.
Had a shitload of things to do at work since Christmas. No garage time at all. :(

But now I'm back in the garage again. Last weekend I did some "things" which I won't reveal yet ;)

Yesterday I helped one of my friends out with his beetle, installing popouts.
Actually I am moving my project to a bigger garage after the easter holidays.
I'm going to share garage with 6 other guys. REALLY lookin' forward to this. :D

Tonight I'll be in the garage, so there will be some informative updates after that :)

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Last night I got some good hours in the garage.

I am moving the car to a bigger garage after the easter holidays so I'm finishing up the "dirty work" in my own garage.
I have modified my frontbumper and brackets to make it fit as perfect (and close) as possible.
After 2,5 hours I was pretty pleased. The bumper is also moved 17-18mm down.
I am now going to weld all bolts from the back and clean the frontside of the bumper for holes.
Also played a little with the location of my new licenseplate. I think it will end up under the bumper. Then I don't "mess up" the bumper with to many "things".

Next up is the rear bumper.. ;)




And now... a little suprise for you. My pinstriped dash :)







That's all for now.

Very Nice!! Did you do the pinstriping yourself?

Actually, the pinstripe is made out of a special vinyl, which looks scary real :)
Got it made in the US. Was pretty expensive, but it turned out real good :D

And for the question, I mounted it myself ;) hehe

The reason I didn't get it done with real paint is that I was not 100% sure which one I should choose ( I bought 3 different stripes).
And I have to paint the hole car inside if I deside to change it later. It is impossible to paint just a part of the dash because of the flatt paint.

looks nice indeed.

I hope you've got now time enough to finish your bug, because i'm pretty curious off the result . :D

More work done tonight :)

I started on the rear bumper. Like in the front, I want the bumper to follow the shape of the car better.
First I make a slice for each inch. I only slice the bottom of the bumper.
Then I shape it bye bending it carefully until I got the shape I want. Then I weld all the slices.




Then after a couple of hours things look like this. Much much better. This is the way it SHOULD have been made ;)







I still got to modify the brackets to lower the rear bumper as well, but I'll do that later this week.
I got something else up my sleeve reagarding the rear bumper, so stay tuned ;)

i really like those bumpers

Then you'll have something to look forward to when I'm finished modifying them ;)
This is just the start :D