I'm working on the VW using the Dave Ramsey plan - Baby Steps. Slow as it is, I
am making progress.
I am amazed at how some little sub-assembly can take so much time to restore.
I had to drill out the screws that hold the striker plates so I could get them off and rebuild them. Took nearly a week.
I repaired the frame and recovered the rear seat back. It doubles as a package shelf so I had to cut a sheet of plywood down to go under the carpet.
The rear area is ready to have the rear seat installed.
The pros who know what they're doing put contact cement is a spray gun to glue the carpet down. But I'm not a pro and I don't know what I'm doing, so I bought a dozen chip brushes to apply the glue with and installed the insulation and the carpet one piece at a time.
A huge step forward was finishing the wiring! Not long after I started this project I got a couple of old sofa cushions to lay on while I worked.
After sorting the rat's nest of wires that I started with I wasn't totally confident I had made all the connections right. I also converted all the lights to all LEDs and I wasn't sure about how that would work out. When I first powered the car up to test it I put a fuse in the main line from the battery so as to avoid a classic "smoke test." I wasn't able to test the starter or generator yet, but everything else works!