Lemon Yellow Tin top Restoration

Top work as always Andrew. Nice tidy and clean workshop you have there.

Nice to see another lemon yellow being put back on the road Mine is in primer.

Always impressed how fast your getting through this! Looking forward to seeing paint  

Get the yellow out!!  

watson said

Top work as always Andrew. Nice tidy and clean workshop you have there.

Thanks very much. I must confess though, the workshop is my dads, the car will be back over to mine once it is sprayed

Neil_Ireland said

Nice to see another lemon yellow being put back on the road Mine is in primer.

Yeah I cant wait

Ronnie85 said

Always impressed how fast your getting through this! Looking forward to seeing paint  Get the yellow out!!  

Its been a joint effort so far, between me and my dad, and my mate sandblasting it, but its coming along nicely now

Time for another update.

Rear chassis legs repaired





Spare wheel well repaired



New lower rear panel fitted



Started to fill the new arch



Rear quarter panel in primer





Primed the rear and stone chipped the bottom of the panel



Drivers side quarter panel and sill in primer and stone chipped the sill





Any surface rust was when the cars was been worked on was removed with a wire brush in the grinder back to bare metal, then zinc primed, seam sealed and stone chipped





First coat of high build on the roof



Not bad going. I still need to prime and seam seal the front panel, engine bay and inside then its a case of more rubbing down then some nice new Lemon Yellow paint

Looking good.  Interested to know if your going to do the underside and wheelarches black or bodycolour lemon yellow.

watson said

Looking good.  Interested to know if your going to do the underside and wheelarches black or bodycolour lemon yellow.

Thanks. Underside and the wheel arches will be sprayed lemon yellow

Very impressive work

Thanks very much

The car is now fully primed

Great work so far, I hope to do this one day to mine, can I ask what the black stuff you've sprayed on the floor is? and where you got your arch repair panels from? Matt

mazza411 said

Great work so far, I hope to do this one day to mine, can I ask what the black stuff you've sprayed on the floor is? and where you got your arch repair panels from? Matt

Thanks. The black is stone chip. I got my repair panels from http://www.vwheritage.com/

Sprayed and ready to put back together. All the underside and arches have been sprayed black.

mk1newbie said

watson said

Looking good.  Interested to know if your going to do the underside and wheelarches black or bodycolour lemon yellow.

Thanks. Underside and the wheel arches will be sprayed lemon yellow

Changed my mind and sprayed the underside and arches black.

Car is looking great! not long for the rebuild then?

New paintwork looks spot on. . You don't hang about do you   Looking forward to more updates.

Looks great!  

Melteddrummer said

Car is looking great! not long for the rebuild then?

Thanks very much I'm hoping it will be somewhere near finished by the end of September.