The barons restoration. 1970 fasty.

BTJustice · Post by **BTJustice** » 15th October 2007 - 7:01pm

I have mentioned the accident on here a few times but for those who do not know, my 2 owner 1970 fasty got hit by a bin lorry in August causing this;

So once the local council agreed to pay up I used the money and the help of a friend who runs a body shop to start a full resto and re-spray.
Instead of posting a link to the restoration thread I started on my local site http://www.vwscotclub.co.uk/forum/default.asp I thought I would post progress pictures here.

It might be 2 months in but I am only working on it 2 nights a week and the occasional Saturday and I have been on holiday during the process as well.

Starting with day 1 and the tear down;

Some rust in the inner wings, to be expected I suppose;

Outer sills were OK (not great but OK) but the inner sills needed replaced;

Rot cut out of the inner wings;

Other side is rough as well but not as bad;

Metal replacement stars;

Going;

Gone;

Original steel;

Wasnt very solid;

Front inner sealed and primed;

Outer sill sat in place to align;

Panels on to check gaps;

Sill complete;

Hole;

No more hole;

Rear inner wing complete;

On to the other side;

Panels lined up to get sill in place;

Other sill in place;

Another hole;

Another hole fixed;

Boot bare metalled;

Then etch primed;

Bare metalling the bonnet;

Doors stripped;

Sill finished off;

Small bit of floor edge replaced;

Welds sealed up and a splash of primer;

Wee bit of corrosion in the screen corners;

Easy fix;

Boot rubbed down;

Let the bare metal process begin;

A naked shell;

Original front panel, this could have been the first bump this car ever had;

First layer of etch primer;

Then high build primer;

I spent 4 hours cleaning off under seal to reveal a solid pan;

Then sealed it up again;

And stone chipped all the arches;

Bonnet ready for priming;

Bonnet and a front wing primed;

First splash of colour applied;

And this brings us up to date with the workshop closed for a week.

Sorry for the monster post, the updates should be in more managable bite sized chunks.

Dave.

Post by **Editor** » 15th October 2007 - 11:29pm

Excellent series of photos - looks so easy, but there's more to repair than my Fastback needed. I must put up a piece on that - just for the nostalgia, as it was 1994 I finished that and it needs a bit of tidying up again in some areas - mostly the bonnet edge, air vent slots in the rear quarters (lucky you!), and the odd bubble on repairs to the wings. Otherwise quite good. I think I noticed a rear bumper mount area needed attention too, and there's probably some more I've not spotted yet.

What I need is a workshop like that, and half the energy you clearly have, as I've twice the time to spend on it!

BTJustice · Post by **BTJustice** » 23rd October 2007 - 10:02pm

Its been a while since I had an update to share but I was up at the workshop tonight for another 3 hours work.

Started with this rear wing which I painted quite badly last year;

I tried to take the paint off with the DA but because it was so soft it clogged the disks too quickly.

So on with the stripper;

Made light work of the paint but a hell of a mess on the floor;

After a wash down, sanding and some straightening it looked like this;

I should also mention at this point, anybody who has spent £17 a tin on POR15 might be interested to know that I painted the back of this wing with it last year. The wing has sat in a dry garage since but the POR15 lifted right off when I used the power washer on it. Not very strong then.

Mick also dressed out this dent in the front pannel;

Then gave it a light skim of filler;

Back up Thursday to get some more done.

Dave

nitro_warrior · Post by **nitro_warrior** » 24th October 2007 - 12:43am

I'm a right resto junkie. This is giving me a great fix!

BTJustice · Post by **BTJustice** » 30th October 2007 - 9:41pm

For Nitro-warrior and the other resto junkies, here is your next fix.

Well as you can tell last thursday didnt happen so here is the latest update.

Mick continued to straighten out the rear wing I stripped last week while I dug the drivers door out of storage;

3 1/2 hours later and it was looking like this;

And 20 minutes later, the door and the rear wing were etch primed;

It seems like slow progress and that not a lot is happening but it is stuff that needs doing properly to make the finished result as good as it can be.

Dave.

BTJustice · Post by **BTJustice** » 1st November 2007 - 9:51pm

Another update from tonight for all you resto junkies.

I spent my time bare metalling the other door which I wont post pics of as it is exactly the same as the other side and Mick lined up the panels on the drivers side.

Hope to spend most of Saturday getting the last of the panels bare metalled and ready for hanging.

Dave

easy · Post by **easy** » 1st November 2007 - 9:57pm

Great work doood! looking grand and straight as you like!

Ultimate VDub Family · Post by **Ultimate VDub Family** » 1st November 2007 - 10:09pm

fantastic work, looks great!

BTJustice · Post by **BTJustice** » 3rd November 2007 - 2:48pm

Cheers guys.

I was up at the workshop at 8am this morning to get more done allthough the amount of time it is taking to bare metal the panels it dosnt look like 5 hours worth.

I got the front nearside wing ( last of the painted wings) bare metalled and got a good start on the NOS rear wing as all that was coated with was primer.

I also fitted the lock mechanism and seal to the offside door so that the panels could be lined up spot on. Turned out the sill needed built out just a touch at the rear and a couple of low spots on the wing built back up;

Its hard to show just how well Mick has got these panels lined up but they are spot on.

Dave.

BTJustice · Post by **BTJustice** » 6th November 2007 - 9:35pm

Time for another update from tonights shift.

Mick got started on the other front wing by welding up the ariel hole (Im going to hide it somewhere) and a side repeater hole befor he started smoothing it off with a skim of filler;

I started the night finishing the bare metalling work on the rear wing. Thank you VW for designing 29 pain in the arse vents.

Still, thats all the panels bare metalled

Once that was done I moved on to marking out the trim holes on the new panels that are on the car.

I got the old panel, stripped off the chrome and lay on masking tape following the swage line. I then marked where the holes were on the tape;

I then lay the tape on the new panel following the same swage line to show me where to drill;

I then did the same on the door and sill;

That was it for tonight, more to follow.

Dave.

nitro_warrior · Post by **nitro_warrior** » 7th November 2007 - 10:11am

Thanks for the update. I'm enjoying this

DAB72 · Post by **DAB72** » 7th November 2007 - 4:29pm

yeah me to as above, keep up the good work dave looking forward to seeing it all finished

lordchris · Post by **lordchris** » 7th November 2007 - 8:56pm

bloody hell!
i remeber seeing the post when this happened.
made alot of progress.
top job

chirs

nitro_warrior · Post by **nitro_warrior** » 8th November 2007 - 10:02am

What's the stuff you use for sealing the welds?

BTJustice · Post by **BTJustice** » 8th November 2007 - 1:16pm

Ive been using a professional seam sealer mabe by Wurth. It is guaranteed for 10 years so should do its job.
Its not cheap stuff so I wasnt too popular when Mick (the garage boss) saw how much I had been using

Dave

easy · Post by **easy** » 8th November 2007 - 2:00pm

Great work doood! a real inspiration to all of us!

BTJustice · Post by **BTJustice** » 13th November 2007 - 9:46pm

Update time or the next episode of Type 3 crisis

This update is going to look like I have taken 1 step forward and 2 steps back but its all part of doing things properly.

When I got there tonight Mick had been busy and all the panels for the passenger side were in primer;

So the first thing I did was dig out all the small bits which still need prepped as it would be easy to forget something.

Number plate light, torsion bar access hole covers and fuel filler flap;

The number plate light to body seal is perrished so I had better add that to the shopping list.

I then moved on to checking the marks I had made for the trim holes lined up before drilling pilot holes;

The holes were then opened out and the tape removed;

I really hope I got this right.

Then the 2 steps back, all the panels came back off for painting so the car looks the same as it did a few weeks ago.

I got the chance to clean off any loose paint from the back of the front wings so that they can be stone chipped and I sealed the seam at the back of the wing;

So thats where I left it for tonight, a big pile of panels.

If anybody has a good number plate housing to body seal for sale, please let me know.

Cheers,
Dave.

Post by **Editor** » 14th November 2007 - 12:06pm

Fastback number-plate light housing rubber gasket?
I'm holding 3 quality repros made by Simon Kelly's company, on behalf of the club. I think they're about £12 each.

Is that what you're after?

Dave.

BTJustice · Post by **BTJustice** » 14th November 2007 - 12:28pm

Its the rubber seal on the far right of this pic Im needing;

If thats what you have then let me know where to send the money.

Cheers,
Dave.

BTJustice · Post by **BTJustice** » 18th November 2007 - 6:11pm

Fresh update time. Another 4 hours work complete but not many pics im affraid as I spent the afternoon bolting up the passenger side panels and drilling the holes for the chrome;

While Mick concentrated on getting the drivers door nice and straight;

Wont be too long now before things start changing colour.

Dave

BTJustice · Post by **BTJustice** » 20th November 2007 - 7:57pm

I went up to the workshop to get a shift done on the fasty tonight.
I started by stripping the panels back off the car to get them ready for coating the insides with this;

To stop the stone chip getting on the visable areas the wings needed masked off. I got as far as doing 1 wing when the workshop and the area around it had a power cut so the only way to get something done was to park my van in the workshop with the headlights on;

I did manage to get all the wings masked before I left tonight but with no power there was nothing more I could get done;

A 45 minute drive each way to get an hours work done, bit of a pain really.
Dave.

BTJustice · Post by **BTJustice** » 22nd November 2007 - 9:05pm

I was back at the workshop tonight and thankfully the electricity stayed on (Mick must have payed the bill) so I managed to finish off what I had started on Tuesday.

This is the inside of the front wing before stonechip;

And after;

And this is the rear wing before;

And after;

The reason I didnt do the whole lot of the rear wing is that the top half is sealed around the wheel tub when fitted so there will be no risk of stone chips higher up and I didnt want to get the stuff on the vents as I would have needed to clean them up.

I finished off tonight by peeling off all the masking.

Dave.

BTJustice · Post by **BTJustice** » 29th November 2007 - 9:16pm

Update time.
Loads of new bits have been arriving this week. Got new headlamps and rims, door seals, rear light seals, number plate light seal and carpets.

Tonight I was up at the workshop and spent the evening straightening out the edge of the front panel so that the gap between the wing and panel will be nice and tight.

Mick sealed up the seam below the roof gutter;
Before

After

And then the repaired areas were masked off and primed;

If things go to plan Mick will hopefully be applying paint to the shell this Saturday but unfortunately I wont be back up untill Tuesday so you will need to wait for that update.

Dave.

DAB72 · Post by **DAB72** » 30th November 2007 - 11:49am

nice one Dave its nearly there, you will soon be getting to the good part of refitting the shiny parts oh and driving it

BTJustice · Post by **BTJustice** » 1st December 2007 - 6:14pm

Well guys, I have just recieved an e-mail from Mick so I have some exciting news.

Mick went in this morning and did a bit of work on the car even though I couldnt make it.
He started by painting the areas inside the car;
Before;

After:

He then pushed the car into the spray booth and masked up the inner wings, door jams etc.

And now the exciting bit. 4 coats of basecoat;

Then 3 coats of clear laquer to give it shine;

Cant wait to get up and have a look for myself.

It will need polished which will hopefully start on Monday night.

Dave.