Bank Holiday - Complete

Welding. Sitrep

Saturday, that was a pile of rust! Look at the transformation!

Bank Holiday Monday doesn't just mean a day off from our tedious jobs and lives, but more so a day where we can get up at silly o'clock and have some good old fashioned fun. Usually, that means going to the beach, or simply day drinking in Whetherspoons. This weekend however, we at Caught The VW Bug slogged away working on our latest project, Jake Bugg. Beers included although so it was no scene from '12 Years A Slave'. 

Caught in the act

Welding new metal to a Bug is crucial to passing not only the MOT for the car, which is the little annual check-up most cars endure. An MOT for a classic car enthusiastic is a painful date in any diary as it requires us to worry if no parts have deteriorated over the past 12 months. ANYWAY. We got our hands down and dirty and I got the camera out to document the progress of the weekend. 

It was safe to say Saturday I was hungover, but Sunday nor Monday, I wasn't hungover at all! So as they say. Happy days. 

We managed to weld the whole of the driver's side Heater Channels, which acts as the structure for any Beetle chassis, also, the inside of the car had some treatment done to make sure the car is solid when it is ready!

A little bit helps, but evidently there are still holes in the chassis that need to be welded in.

Quick update as well, Jake has the date for his big respray day, 4th June! That leaves just 30 days, or rather a few weekends to get the car up to scratch!

Jake catching some rays with just a month to go before his new lick of paint.