Update time.
At this point in the restoration we are down to small and fiddly jobs so the updates are probably not so interesting but today I start with a story.
If you look back through the thread you will see that there was a request put out for a Volkswagen script badge for the rear decklid.
The problem arose when I asked Johnny to paint the best of the 2 1967 only decklids I had.
Unfortunately I wasnt paying attention when I dropped them off and missed the fact one of the decklids had holes for a badge.
Scroll forward to the first time I saw the car in the sunlight and the realisation I didnt have a badge to fit the holes and it was too late to fill up the holes on a freshly painted decklid.
So the search was on for either a Volkswagen script as fitted on US market cars or the 1200 badge the UK car would have been fitted with if specified by the first customer.
The 1200 badge is VERY rare. Would you pay more to advertise that your car was the cheapest model in the range?
So I went on ebay and the only Volkswagen script available was $40 with $25 postageShocked. Keep looking!
Then my pal Jack came up trumps with the Volkswagen script.
Collected the badge and Joanne set about polishing it to within an inch of its life and the day came where we had time to try it on the car and............ It was too big.
Had we seen the part number on the back sooner we would have known the badge was for a Type 3 Squareback.
Time to look again and this time I found a seller on The Samba who had a few of the correct badges (with the correct part number) so an email was sent to see if he would be willing to post to the UK.
Reply was positive so payment was sent and the story took another twist.
The seller not only lives in Georgia, a state we visited back in March but he was only around half an hour off the route we took from Atlanta to Gatlinburg. To add insult to injury when I told him this he said we would have been more than welcome to drop in for a visit and have a look around the 300+ Volkswagens he has on his property............ Talk about missed opportunities!
That leads me to this morning when the box arrived with the postie and the badges inside are perfect;
And even better on the car;
Other updates on the project include the new radio ariel fitted, windscreen skooshers plumbed in and working, bonnet seal fitted and deck lid seal and lock now fitted.
This would be the end of todays epic update but Jo and myself both had a day off work today which meant we could make a start on possibly the biggest job left to be done.
Its carpet time.
After cleaning everything out of the car and hoovering up the dust it really seems a shame to cover over the shiny paint;
Started with the boot floor area behind the back seat, firstly adding some sound deadening (teamwork in action here);
Then carpeting over the top;
The small rinkles will smoothe out a lot better with time but really happy so far. There would have been more progress but each layer needs to be glued and then left a short time to set before moving on to the next section.
Next visit I hope to get the front bulkhead, footwells and sill pieces on but the weather needs to play nice.
Dave