Road trip and new project.

[Itoldyouso]

My Son Dan is getting very close to finishing his RPU (FINALLY!) and is starting to think about his next project. He is kinda burned out on building one from the ground up, and has always loved VW bugs. His first car at 14 was a Cal Look VW that he kept for about 20 years. He only sold it a few years ago to help fund his RPU, and to make some space. So he has been looking for a good bug body to start with.

We have been looking locally but were finding only rust buckets, plus, he wanted an early one, preferably in the early 60's. Last night he found one on Craigslist in the Tampa area, and today we rented a U haul trailer and took a 3 hour drive to check it out. It turned out to be perfect, only some minor rust in easy to fix places, and it is a 1963 and came with a later 1971 floorpan and running gear. It came with all the fenders and stuff, but he thinks he will put all new ones on it when the body is cherried out.

He plans to put the body back very stock, only dropped in the nose, Porsche wheels, stroker engine, and stuff like that. He also figures with this one waiting in the wings it will push him to be less fussy and get his RPU done and on the road.

Here are some pictures from our little trip today. Sorry they are so dark but it was almost midnight when we were on the way home.

Don