What are my plans now? I need to get the beam of Antoine and fit it so the car can be rolled out of the garage and then I can start to really strip it down. Every thing needs to be unbolted. Then I can take the body off (not going to be easy with a cabriolet) I expect that it will be welded on in a lot of places, I have welded patches that weld the body and pan together in a least two places, then there is the rest done before I owned it. I want to replace heater channels, at least one inner rear wing and maybe a bit around the windscreen. It depends on what Jon Rathbone says about how he will do the flip front, assuming he does it. This is where Eminem comes into the story; I bought six tickets for his concert in Milton Keynes. A mate of mine, Ollie (a1963vw on the Volkszone) said he would do any welding I needed doing on the Wizard if I sold him my two spare tickets at cost price that I was going to sell for mega bucks (Eminem sold over 250,000 tickets in under two hours and all the 140,000 tickets for the two Milton Keynes gigs sold out in 16 minutes so these tickets were in major demand). I agreed thinking it would be useful at MOT time nether of us knew how much welding I’ll need. He doesn’t know it yet but I will pay him some money for all the work I’ll be asking of him, I’ll feel guilty otherwise. I have just bought some 7” Ercos to go on the rear of the bug from Dave Ninian (Turbo_Monkey_Racer on the volkszone) they are brand new and were a bargain. Oh and I need to save about up £1500 to get all the work done by Jon Rathbone that I want. More updates as and when I get off my arse…
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