Safe and sound and nice and clean. Next we learn how to weld.

I blasted for three days - All's I can say is whew, I'm glad that's over for now!

Special thanks to everyone and my little me that helped sift sand and reload for another blast.

Wow! What a difference!


That's not paint - that's shiny, rust-free, bare metal


Yay! I can add sandblaster extraordinaire to my resume!

New location. The sandblast is near.


Pan gets moved


All that remains

See those huge rusty bolts holding the rusty wheel drums in place? Well they won't budge! I'm gonna have to get me pappa again. Then it's sandblast time - no more dirt and grime!!

Okay - with a little help from me pappa and something called a 'pickle fork' we got the front end completely dismantled. Hope I can figure out how to get it back together again later.

The first video! Finally I did something a little more exciting than just turning bolts and scrapping gunk. This is the very dangerous procedure of getting the spring plate off without using the proper tools. This is called the 'jack and chain' method. I'm not even using a proper chain - All I had was a swingset chain! This is the second plate to be removed - apparently I had already perfected the method with the first try, because the screwdriver doesn't go flying off across the garage this time! Not very fun this time around - but anyhow, here's how to do it flawlessly...

This front end assembly is being a bugger to take apart

Now you see a front end assembly...



Now you don't

One side is definitely gonna need a little more work than the other

One side all cleaned up... one more to go

Chassis stays home for some clean up

Body goes to Granbury to wait

Hmm, I wonder if the Home Owner's Association would have a problem with this..

Forney to Fort Worth - The Beetle has landed

The Good, Bad (not too bad for $150), And The Ugly...