Bug

On January 21, 2006 my husband, Greg bought our 1970 VW Bug, and brought it home. Our boy, Chase, loves to help out with the jack. Greg checked all the fluids, and tires. Then we drove it around the area, not too far from home. Oct. 2006 Greg decided it could us a new motor and transmission. After we put the new motor and transmission in we started driving around the area again. The floor panel were the battery is has a hole. We decided to take a trip to Flagstaff in the bug. It ran fine there and back. We did have a problem with the front passenger seat. It kept moving. But we made it there and back again.
Then we bought the back half floor pans to fix the floor. When the seats were taken out and the rug. we found out why the passenger seat was moving. The whole floor pan was pretty bad, it was a surprise that the battery stayed in the car. So Greg replaced both whole floor pans. The floor looks so good now. We ordered a new head liner, seat pads and fabric, rug, insulation.
Sense we have the car all torn apart we decided to go ahead and paint it.


The hole is where the battery sat and some how stayed in the car.

Here are a couple parts of the new insides to the bug. It should look very nice when we finish it.


June 1, 2009

Sense Greg started sanding the bug, he has found several layers of paint. We found out that the roof was replaced. And one door was replaced. Sense there is still a lot to do on this car, we are thinking of painting our 1986 Pontiac Firebird first. The body is in very good condition, and the interior is in good shape to. We will not be stripping the Firebird. We just need to replace the headliner and recover the seats when we get around to it.