At this point, reassembly of the front suspension started in earnest. With all the factory suspension bits sandblasted and powder-coated, assembly was event-free and much more pleasant than the dirty dis-assembly stage. Check out these great photos: The front disc […]

With the paint on the firewall and the frame paint fully cured, it was time to move forward with assembling the car. After more than a year with the car being apart, it is good to get started on re-assembly. […]

I had initially thought we could remove the body from the frame, then to have the bare frame sand blasted and power coated. That process would have allowed George and Wayne to have cleaned the underbody and spray it, and […]

Just after the first of the year, Mike Smith was moving forward on wrapping up the work on my high performance Y-Block. Mike bolted down the freshly chrome-plated parts, re-installed the ignition wires and custom routed the setup, checked out […]

With some time off for Thanksgiving (and just to take a break), we got back to work on the Vicky. At this point, catalyzed primer-surfacer was applied to the front clip had set up and was ready for block sanding: […]

Work continued on the fenders. One very subtle change that I asked George Layton to create was to extend the factory top-of-fender, front-to-back, “peak” so it would terminate over the one-time separate “eyebrow” above the front fenders. The tapered peak […]

My goal with the front end of the Vicky has been to remove evidence of how the factory assembled the fenders by welding up the gaps and seams. The effort to remove panel gaps by welding up the seams doesn’t […]

The question inevitably comes up – what will be the effect of the mechanical and aesthetic changes I’m doing to the car? One of my sons, Eric, who sells and races Volkswagen professionally, advised me that restomods are generally worth […]

Prior to my purchase of the car, the prior (second) owner had a quality autobody shop reshoot the blue color no doubt to remedy the heavy stone chipping on the front end of the car that I observed in the […]

By this date, I had decided, belatedly, to treat the engine to a series of performance improvements that would substantially enhance its horsepower and torque output – – this decision reflected the change of direction with the car’s “restoration.” This […]