In about just over a week i'l be picking up my new toy:

A 1954 LHD Swedish import Oval beetle.
It has belonged to a friend of mine and i've watched him painstakingly
restore the floor pan and chassis to the point its at now, which is
better than new!

I can't claim to have done any of the work.
Here is a link to the build thread up to now on my local aircooled forum:

http://deutschworks.com/index.php?topic=1063.0

He has lost interest in the project and i nearly ripped his arm off when he put it up for sale!

Here is how it stands today:







As you can see, its solid as fook. Needs about half a days welding to get the shell finished off.
Its
had the roof caved in at some point - but the plan for the short term
is to sling a roofrack on. Long term plan is to get a golde ragtop cut
into it.

Now got the 1954 Oval home:








And finally in its new home:




Employed a friend to clean up the all important feature:



And finally started tackling the rather nasty caved in roof area:



I know mass filling isn't the best idea, but its only for the short term, Gonna stick a roof rack on until i can source a proper Golde rag top to cut in.

Very nice,looking forward to seeing this progress.

You're heading into dream car territory here, I've always fancied either a split window or oval Beetle. Looking forward to seeing this progress. So, how many cars have you got on the boil at the minute??????

Thats cool, love the old skool!!

MkIISimon wrote:You're heading into dream car territory here, I've always fancied either a split window or oval Beetle. Looking forward to seeing this progress. So, how many cars have you got on the boil at the minute??????

I sold the series1 mk1 to fund the oval so now i'm down to just 2 VW's, the 1965 and the 1954

Well they're both super cool!

i love it!

Now for sale, £4000 - but based in Norwich.

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