Finding a new donor car...

It was now time to strip down the car and start work preparing the chassis to be shortened to fit the new buggy body. However, the beetle was not really in that bad a condition and even though it needed paintwork, the body was now solid and it ran well.

I decided that a new donor should be found.

on searching the Volkzone forum I came across a partially stripped 1972 chassis for sale at a reasonable price so after purchasing an A-Frame to tow it back and borrowing a car with a towhitch the car was collected.

After striping it down some more I realised that the Rust was worse than first imagined and quite a few new parts would be needed on top of the usual floorpan replacements. however the gearbox and engine plus general running gear were ok so it wasn't a total loss.

After a Call to Flatlands Engineering again, I booked in for a new chassis to be sourced, shortened and painted as well as ordering a new adjustable beam, trailing arms and various small parts.