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I know where the safe location is emoticon

Should be a cool project though!



Cool, looking forward to getting started on this.

I was speaking to an ex-colleague of yours a few weeks ago Paul, he came out after I reported the damage to my Corrado (can't remember his name though emoticon ). We spent a while discussing Beetles and stuff, he was the PC that stopped you on the bypass when you had the Squareback, when you were last in Lincoln in it.

I keep seeing those new Scirocco's in green, which is the sort of colour I'm after emoticon

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that is one cool looking tacho,

i can see the demands for this car are gong to be high.

looking forward to the build thread.



Bri, I have lots of time now to put in to this project. Just need to get my secure storage sorted. Just awaiting a phonecall.....

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Luckily the VERY rare steering wheel remains...... only 250 ever made..... emoticon

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god i bet your looking forward to getting your teeth in to this one.......

just think of all those cold nights huddle up around the welder getting warm.....

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Another fortunate item left was a couple of rare gearboxes that I have swapped for a full set of "as new" wings and lights. Let's see what I can swap the last gearbox and dashboards for......... emoticon

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Found this on the samba , just in case you haven't seen it...


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Picked up a full set of nearly new wings today.
The tacho also arrived this morning.

I just need to get a few more things and I'm back where I started from. Although this time I have the time to do it.

Looking at getting the floorpan sandblasted before Xmas.....

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where's the best place for sand blasting in terms of distance and price? Could do with getting my shell done as gotta be worth a couple of hundred quid to avoid all that sanding... emoticon

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I am going for heavy duty sand blasting for the pan. A shell needs a lighter blating otherwise it will shag the shell......

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Finally, picture of the new wings.

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Fitted to a car that was restored/rebuilt and then garaged emoticon

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