Firstly, I'd like to apologise for the lack of blogging this week. Last week I have been writing something very super special that I have to keep under wraps until release and also throughout the week I have been enjoying some downtime that has been well needed after my year at work!
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| Before the team commenced work on Lennon! |
Although this week I spared some time to see my boy, Lennon at the bodyshop and see how he was getting on.
It's needless to say that he looks pretty rough and needs a lot of love the poor boy. However, it's worth mentioning that cars always look worse when a midst a respray or any development to a car, therefore it always looks an eyesore aesthetically.
In terms of progress, I'd like to report from our last visit that my boy is coming along well. The car has more rust than we originally thought which initially is a shame however it's good because that will be repaired with new metal, thus eliminating the potential of rust for a few years to come. It's important to get a proper job as Lennon is a keeper for years to come!
We also got the windscreen cut out with a live demonstration of a task that costs a bomb usually! The super difficult method of simply cutting the windscreen rubber and lifting out the windscreen is easily something that should be charged £200 for.
As you may know, the perfectionists at Caught the VW Bug always aim to have the correct and period equipment for all our projects. We noticed that the windscreen was wrong as it was not only minutely smaller to the extent that water started to leak into the chassis and inside the car but also that it was a heated rear window. The rear window did surprisingly have two connections to heat it up although we know that the luxury of heated windscreens weren't introduced until 1969.
Did we deface a one off prototype? Maybe. Do I want a working windscreen? Yes.
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| SCUM IN THE BODYSHOP! |
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