VW Restoration
Here is my first attempt at restoring a Volkswagen! As a kid, I grew up working on them. I guess you could say my dad got me excited as a kid in VW's. I remember the first one I got was china red and I had worked all summer for my parents on various projects. I used to help my mother at the fair washing dishes and helping to sell kitchen products. As I recall, we had just finished the fair for the year and I was sitting in the front room of our house. My dad pulled up in front of the house driving my new whip. The beetle was a post 67 and I really enjoyed the simplicity of the car. As a young kid in high school the car was a blast to drive! As I started making friends in the vw community I started to realize that my passion was for the older style pre-66 to be exact. I drove a 66 through high school and truely enjoyed it. I spent weekends working on it. Eventually my brother and I worked on them together and could pull a motor out in less than 10 minutes. After I went away to college my dad and brother continued to work on and expand our bug collection. As I recall, my brother had everything from splits with semaphores to buses. I had purchased a 53 oval that sat in the backyard when I left for college. As you know when your gone things/hobbies change and sadly when I returned from school our bug collection was gone. I can't blame anyone though, I wouldn't want my backyard to look like a vw graveyard either. I had a lot of great memories back in the day which is why I am starting this new blog to document the recent addition of a 64 convertible to the family.
Here's the story;
Andrea, mentioned after my accident that I should get a new project to work on. She knows that I am very impatient and little projects are almost therapeutic in a way for me. We actually found this vert in Kamas, Utah. The bug's owner was a cool old guy who was the second owner of the vehicle. He and his son restored old cars and let me tell you if I ever have a shop like his, I probably won't leave the house. I bought the car for Andrea as an anniversay gift. She is so excited to help me with it and has actually drawn up a restoration plan for us. I will start posting pictures from here on out...
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