My friend Gui's 1960 Ragtop Beetle · International Vintage Volkswagen Forums

51reutter
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14 years ago

Hi,

my friend Guilherme, asked me to create a topic here, to share with you guys his "homemade" restoration. Hope you enjoy it.

some pictures of the day we colected the Beetle in Algarve, south of Portugal.

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51reutter
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14 years ago

a few days later back home, we started it up and went for a ride :d

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51reutter
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14 years ago

We started to disassemble the car, to take it to the welder, what a big mistake that was :evil: we should have done the job ourselves, all the guy did we had to undo :?

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51reutter
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14 years ago

this was the day the car went to the welder...

and the day it came back...

I'll continue tonight 😎

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51reutter
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14 years ago

Then we started to strip it with a portable sandblaster, here are some pictures.

we apllied some primary paint

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51reutter
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14 years ago

interior...

and more exterior

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51reutter
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14 years ago

Mr. Gui preparing himself to remove all the old paint from the 60's body :lol:

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JD
pre67vw Junkie

14 years ago

What a nice solid car. Good work!
Obligado!:d

"John, you need to get a grip and STOP MOANING AT EVERYTHING. ThumbDown "

51reutter
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14 years ago

Thanks JD,

more picture from the removing of the old paint.
First we removed the several layer of old paint with a grinder and the a quick passage with the sand blaster, so we could clean the difficult areas.

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51reutter
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14 years ago

#10

after aplying some epoxy primer

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54 Gertie
pre67vw Junkie

14 years ago

#11

So...no rust repair? :twisted: :roll: :?

Damn the UK wet climate! :lol:

William

51reutter
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14 years ago

#12

A friend of mine told me to try out this "dryer" to remove the paint, it heat's up to 500º, and doesn't bent the metal, but it removes all the paint without noise 😎

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51reutter
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14 years ago

#13

So...no rust repair? :twisted: :roll: :?

Damn the UK wet climate! :lol:

54 Gertie wrote:

Wait it´s not over yet :lol: the chassis still needs a lot of welding, I'll show it next

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51reutter
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14 years ago

#14

The inicial idea was just to remove the rust and do a fast repair, but Gui decided (and well in my opinion) to remove all the paint to bare metal.

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51reutter
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14 years ago

#15

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51reutter
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14 years ago

#16

more epoxy primer...

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51reutter
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14 years ago

#17

more of the same, sorry guys if I'm beeing boring :?

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14 years ago

#18

All of this work was done on our free Saturday's, that's wy it´s taking so long...

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14 years ago

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14 years ago

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