The beginning

The Volkswagen beetle project was thought up as a Father Son bonding project. My father and I thought up the idea to find an old beat up car and restore it so that I could drive it to college and what better car to work on that a Volkswagen Beetle. We decided on this model of car because it was the most popular car in the country s,"so there muse be tons of parts to trade out", we thought. After deciding on what the Beetle, we began our search for the perfect project car (if there is such a thing).

We looked high an low, and the car That we settled on was a 1973 Beetle. It was is pretty good shape. There wasn't too much rust on the body panels and it could actually roll. The seller also told us that if we bought the original one we had decided on, we could also get another that was not in as good condition for free. We immediately jumped at this offer.
We brought the cars home and put them in the garage. The day we brought them home was somewhere around late 2006.

During the first few months we got quite a lot of work done. We pulled out all the seats and the all the interior aside from the dash. None of the interior is very salvageable. It was moldy and most of it was torn beyond repair.

After this first portion of work we had a slow period of about five and a half years. We just didn't have the time or the drive to work on it.

During the past month or so we started working on it again and have been making some serious progress. This progress will be described in great detail in the many following posts.