Airride for the Front!

Sold my 2'' narrowed frontbeam this monday, I want something more radical for this ride;

A 5'' beam with airride! With a friend of mine we drew the needed parts ourselves in SolidWorks, and got them lasercut.
Everything fits really nice, and now I can slam the rag whenever I want, where-ever I want. Without scraping my freshly painted pan to scheisse! Love it...

the adjusters are there just in case the air fails/leaks for some reason. Just screw the adjusterbolts in and the axle is off the ground again ---->always driveable! 

RDW Day!!!

Today was the day: RDW day. Importing my rag in the Netherlands, just a couple of days ago I had to do an engineswap because the old motor puffed out big blue clouds and sparks. It just gave up, that old D-motor, what a pussy!

So threw in another 1200 and of I was, the MOT-test was easy, it passed so Dutch plates are a fact! But the trip home was a little less amusing cause the replacement motor also gave up on me...I think it's about time to finally throw a good engine in this sucker....

To make things worse one exhaustpipe fell off this morning...sure why not!

stranded on the way home...

a glance on the finished wheels

Time to mount a GOOD motor, but, choices choices.....this:

the custom 1585cc

Or maybe this! a fresh '57 industrymotor we picked up today:

just missing the sparkbox, fuelpump and flywheel.

the motorsheetmetal even matches the bodycolor! Crazy right?!

The Flat Flatblack

Wrapped up a Cool project today: slammed and narrowed the ''76'' bug.

A fresh 3,5 inch narrowed beam, dropped spindels, the beam lays practically ON the ground, and with 2 notches in the back this flatblack cruiser will scrape the roads for sure this summer!

Stance is everything!

New tranny...

Picked up a fresh gearbox for the '58 rag, the old one makes a shitload of noise = not good. That and the fact that it was messed up anyway made me look for a new tranny.
cleaned, degreased, painted, axles swapped and built up, again a nice shitload of work nobody will ever see ;-)
Hopefully by end of the week everything back together and then to the RDW, I want to drive this MF!!!

Build-up part 2

Body on chassis with the help of some Amigo's! Wheels painted, fenders mounted and engine running...

The Build-up!

The fun part of a resto for me is when all the stuff you have prepared during several months finally come together. Everything falls into place...very cool to see...

Sprayed the inside with some (gloss)paint to ''match'' the rest of the dash. Remember the hole under the radioblock-off plate?....

RX-5 - RX-10 on the none visible panels, and antistone-chip spray in the fenderwells.

After blending in the paint/patina on all the fenders and taillights I

fitted all the fenders and loose parts like front lights, runningboards and bumpers...Man, she's got the look...

Also brought the D-motor back to life, at full throttle it barked out black smoke, sparks and big-ass backfires like a crazy monkey!! It's a runner ;-)

Placed the OG firewall and driptubes back where they came from.

A true ratlooker, worn on the outside, but fully restored underneath!!! 

YEAHHH!!! Can't wait to roll low this summer!!!

Chairride...

Slammed daily

smacked the daily on it's ass....SCRAAAAAP!!!! (no metal sparks though, just some plastic  ;-)

Welding Finito!

Finally, after about 2 months, 2 bottles of shieldgas, a roll of weldwire and a couple square meters of sheetmetal ;-) ....the welding on the body is done...now it's a matter of some filler, prime and a shot with the paintgun on the inside and then the body on the chassis for the last time! Me a happy camper!