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[vwhelmot]

Thanks everyone. My dream has come true.

[DWL_Puavo]

Congrats for the show win! The car was truly amazing, we stood and watched it go round for at least 5 minutes in awe of all the details!

- DWL Crew / Finland -

[WayneMcCarthy]

Thanks everyone. My dream has come true.

Well Done Sir ....... Magic Car !

[glassback kid]

Thanks everyone. My dream has come true.

You deserve it fella, the work you have put in to achieving your goal is truly outstanding/mind blowing

So what's the next project your doing 

[baz]

Congrats on the win! Look forward to seeing more of it

[vwhelmot]

For now I’m not going to do anything 😂 I’ve always fancied an early 60s ragtop

[vwhelmot]

I will finish the build updates in a week or so.

[Gwar72]

Congratulations on getting the car finished..!! Looks amazing 

[Neil Davies]

For now I’m not going to do anything 😂 I’ve always fancied an early night and my fingerprints being intact.

Fixed it for you! 

[vwhelmot]

  that’s about right

[vwhelmot]

A few shots from the weekend

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[Neil Davies]

Congratulations Lyndon, it looks amazing. I haven't seen any other pictures of the show, but I can't imagine that anything else would be as good!

[karl h]

Exceptional job, buddy! I like the wheels

[vwhelmot]

Cheers,  I love the wheels too mate. Thanks for selling them to me 

[Lids]

Congratulations Lyndon, it looks amazing. I haven't seen any other pictures of the show, but I can't imagine that anything else would be as good!

The green Karmann Ghia was clever

[Dalland]

Amazing car, but I am sad to see that this thread jumped from tie rods and a transaxle to a finished car in one page.
I believe there are so many beautiful details that we all want to see and hear about.

Any possibilities to keep updating the thread with some detail pictures?

[vwhelmot]

  yeah I will post up all the build when I get a bit of time. Cheers

[karl h]

cant wait!

[vwhelmot]

OK.
 So I`m going to have to gloss over the remainder of the build as I`m sure you are not that interested in seeing pictures of every single part that I`ve worked on.
 
The axles are not the originals, after I blasted the tubes and stripped the bearing housings off the end I realised that the tubes were not good enough to chrome. I fortunately had a pair of short axle tubes that were in great shape which I sent off to the chrome shop and then fitted with a pair of non split boots and a pair of Limebug bell housings which look great and are much stronger than the original tin pressed ones. The bearing housings took a lot of work to smooth.

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Airkewld rear brake bracket after lots of love

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Race axles

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Fitted up with billet bearing seal housings and chromed bolts

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[vwhelmot]

The rear brakes I bought were unused second hand off someone on volkzone. I had quickly opened the box and checked that all the parts were there , then carried on with the resto of the car. A year or so later, I started to see what was involved with making the calipers look nice when I found out I had two right hand one FFS.  Fair play, Airkewld sorted me out with a LH one but its shit like this that holds you back.

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As you can see, the calipers needed a huge amount of work to get them to look nice

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Handbrake mech was modified and chromed

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[chez2165]

absolutely blown away by the level of detail. Just out of curiosity who did you use for the chrome work.

[vwhelmot]

A company in Crewe. Niphos metal finishers.
Cheers

[richie]

A company in Crewe. Niphos metal finishers.
Cheers

You didn't do it yourself?    That's just plain lazy

Seriously, amazing amount of effort and you deserve the rewards , so are you actually going to use it now?

cheers Richie

[vwhelmot]

   I`ve got one other show to take it to in November, after that its getting retired and then I will get it running etc.

[vwhelmot]

Here is just some of the Chrome. I made several trips, taking batches of stuff for them to coat, but if anyone else is thinking about doing something similar, my word of advice would be to prep the metal as much as possible, get everything smooth with no weld pitting etc. It pays dividends in the end.

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There was stuff I had to get done twice and the manifolds took three attempts to chrome properly without any pock marks or pin holes.

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[vwhelmot]

There were quite a few NOS parts that I`ve bought for this project. One of them being a NOS trip speedo. Lovely piece, but there was no way I could live with the plated cover so I stripped it down and painted it etc.

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Painted black

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Other stuff that needed attention, infact every single part needed attention.

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[vwhelmot]

Bare Chassis

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First things to bolt on. Don't scratch anything!

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Chromed shifter support I made

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CAE shifter. I love this shifter, not seen hardly any fitted to a bug. I had previously bought a Berg locking shifter but I changed my mind when I saw this.

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The gear knob is actually a coconut shy throwing ball which I turned up on the lathe 

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The 550 speedster handbrake took a lot of work to mount and to get working , A LOT of work.

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Optima battery box I made from stainless

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Its got a hinge and quick release pin

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Satin black linkage cover

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Master cylinder after lots of love and a coat of sparkling black metalflake

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Polishing each and every stainless / brass fixing has been an absolute ballache. Indexing is something to remember too

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[Eddie DVK]

Man that is amazing..

Didi you have a year of from work or something... that must be a lot of time spend.

[vwhelmot]

Thanks
I just worked on it every night after work for nearly four years no fail. The only break I`ve had is when I broke my collarbone in Feb 2017 and even then I was trying to paint the wheels one handed not long after I fell off my bike.

 I`ve had to spent the time to get the finish I wanted.

[stretch]

The work involved in this is just mind blowing.   Having seen first hand how much Dude put in to build a show car I can honestly say you’ve raised the bar.   Personally I think you’re mad, but, you deserve all the accolades you receive.    The car is beyond incredible.