A very tense moment and pressure getting the body onto the chassis for the first time… The electric hoist was invaluable, but required some bracing of the garage roof joist to take the weight. The added complexity was the clearance of the body, due to the low garage ceiling. The…
I am not sure how this should be done with any accuracy, but luckily enough, I was not too far out and did not have to hack away at too much fiberglass. I will try and show the fuel filler cap mechanism in a later post, which is still work…
The pedal assembly are all original Porsche 356 components, but when coming to do the final fits, it was clear that some modifications would be required to get it to work effectively with the Beetle chassis. The main part to fix was the throttle cable, which I previously fabricated a…
After playing around with my new welder, which I got for Christmas, I managed to fabricate a heating tube and weld it into the chassis. This setup is the same as Porsche used on their 356A’s, with the collar and knob being from an early Beetle (shared this part with…