A little check with both fenders, decklid and bumpers on....the parts seem to fit together good :-)

Celebrated part of the national holiday in the garage this year :-)

Replaced some sheetmetal behind the left rear bumpemounts - and trialfitted mounts itself and "the dolly". Looks good so far - next time I will trialfit the rear fenders and the correct split bumper. That's gonna be fun! :-)

Sunday service... =)

I'm going to lend Oval57's "garage-dolly" in order to weld my heater channels....but before I can attach the body to the dolly, I have to repair the rear bumper mounts...they are completely missing!

Managed to get a good start today - the mounts itself will be added next time - I need some further reference points before I weld it in place...

Collecting more parts...

The other low-voltage boys are starting to get their rides together, and I kinda start longing for getting there myself...especially as spring are coming these days.

Yesterday in the garage, I swapped these little guys with Oval57 - correct parts for the old -50... He got a well used pair to match the captain instead.

Not being able to do welding in the garage this last week because of winter vacation at school, I just had to do some shopping....

I try to not shop things for my split before I need them, but just had to have this when I saw it advertized by a fellow vw nut here in Oslo...

A NOS Indy Hurst gear shifter for VW =) Looking at the box will make my soul be at rest until the car is finished and my right hand can work on this beautiful piece of vw history!

Report from last night in the garage!
My first shot at welding the heater channels....
This side required some small pieces welded in, it now appears to solid and strong. Some grinding will make it look a bit prettier as well....I hope... ;-)

And on the more "fun" side.... Yesterday I completed welding on the left inner front fender. Also started to work on the heater channel, as it is kinda moth-eaten... Will continue this later this week, I hope.

When the engine was finally dismantled and cleaned and ready to fit the 1600 ccm set....it would'nt fit!! Turned out that the engine was in fact a D-engine...which translates to a 1200 ccm 34 HP Sparkäfer engine....bad luck really - as we pulled it out from a -69 deluxe, and Sparkäfers aren't that common i Norway... So i had to start all over with a 1300 "F"-engine, pictured here. Boring, boring....!!

12 V Adultery……
I plan to sell a car in the summer of 2008, so a new engine have to be built. This engine was pulled out of a -69 1300 some years ago, I bought it from Oval57. I thoroughly cleaned and dismantled it, and was just going to install a good used set of 1600 pistons, cylinders and heads…. (everything will of course be converted to 6V!!)
But then suddenly, D-day came…. :-(

*STOLEN* Last night someone broke into SplitBoys car and stole an original Blaupunkt radio. It looks like the thiefs in this case were unfamiliar with opening a beetle, and finding the fastening screws for the radio. If anyone have any tips about the Blaupunkt radio, make sure to mail SplitBoy at outlavws@hotmail.com.

One could wonder if the 6V house cat should be taken to the wet and castrated soon. This morning the cat left another "dead mouse" on our doorstep. If this don't stop, we have to build another barn. The cat keeps on dragging in.... and we keep on saving. And this for sure is a saver =) Something to do with the roof?

Funny thing...... Both Knechten's -52 and my -50 are repainted in some kind of horizon blue around the time they were imported from Sweden nearly 40 years ago. The other night in the garage, we desided to check the colours up against each other. As you can see from Knechten's tail-light....the colour is exactly the same... Have they been to the same place at one point of time? do they share a common history? If only they could tell the tale....

Last week in the garage saw some massaging of the left inne front fender. This was missing already when I bought the car, so it was good to get it back on - makes the car a bit more "whole" =)

Had to make a new lower mounting for the door as well - the driver door looks to have been bent/torn/cut off the car rather than being screwed off at one time in the past. A new door will be needed, but that will be in 2008...

I allowed myself one little "shortcut" - I used "kjemisk metall" - a polyesterbased metal-alloy to cover up some holes i the hot air-vent to the front screen...but please don't tell anybody... =)

The "VENG" part acutally did fit quite ok. It will need some more welds to be finished, but it sure make the owner get in better mood already!

Mantorp in 1995. "Betty" are marked as you can see:-)

SplitBoy has`nt always been into splits and ovals. He is the one of us that had a new VW. This 1973 model 1300 S was a great 90`s cal-looker. Living close to HotShop the parts was easy to get, and hard to pay. We drove it to Mantorp in 1995, first time at Mantorp for us!

Where is Betty now?

A whole new beginning =)

Quite a good day in the garage yesterday =)
Filled in three small holes in the out back, and also managed to come a long way in repairing the right front inner fender. With a very good help from Knechten, it turned out really nice as Wednesday evening turned into Thursday morning… =)
As for the welding, we followed the instructions from Gunde Swan’s "Lär att svetsa som en proffs"

Solid (?) but ugly?

Yesterday I welded on the chassis-mount on the right side of the car, as it was completely missing. I spent a great deal of time making it fit to the car, and also to try to weld it on properly. I have to admit - I am not a welder of excellence....not yet, anyway.. the chassismount appears to be rock solid now, but I will still have to practise a bit more to get it to look a little better... =)

Polishing chrome-parts is not the thing I should be doing at this stage, but I can't help myself.....

The new front bumper turned out quite ok after one hour polish with Autosol.. =)

Collecting parts....

Last night, on our way to the garage, we drove by another vw-fellow's place and picked up this front fender.

It's pretty rough, but with a litttle hard work and a few tubes of autosol, it might work out just fine on the split - so far, this is the crome part for this car with the most crome on.... ;-)