DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Posted: **Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:25 pm**

finished the engine bay to day got the boy to put on some red lead , semed all leading edges etc , owen nw

Posted: **Sat Jul 17, 2010 7:08 pm**

finished the last of the welding to the main body , coated the engine bay again wi.th.0 zinc primer and done in behind the seat area and rear shelf finished with finnigans stone chip owen nw

Posted: **Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:17 pm**

to day i got some yellow paint to use for build up , and it s class owen nw

Posted: **Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:24 pm**

colm started work on the strippng of the bits and pieces of the 912 engine lid and degreasing it before sanding it down for me , returning the favor owen nw colm helper ???
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Posted: **Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:39 pm**

owen nw wrote:colm started work on the strippng of the bits and pieces of the 912 engine lid and degreasing it before sanding it down for me , returning the favor owen nw colm helper ???

Posted: **Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:29 pm**

cheers for that don t no why it didnt come up thanks owen nw

Posted: **Thu Jul 22, 2010 5:57 pm**

sanded down the quaters again with 180 on the da sander , had a couple of minor bit s that need a bit of attention , while colm cleaned of the last of the dirt on the rear of the rear panel , handi haven him , owen nw colm the helper lol

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2010 6:04 pm**

while i worked on his 914 colm started grinding down the welds on the 912 floor and cleaning up the inner inner sill for paint , with this all tidied he coated the lot with red lead , next will be seam sealer colm owen nw

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:49 pm**

started to do some body work on the 912 , and got the in saide welded edges seam sealed and stone chipped , looking good see not to many have replied to eaither of my restos why owen nw

Posted: **Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:01 pm**

had a painfull couple of days , after everything going fairly smooth it all went down hill , da ed the black primer off, was put on in america , body is nice and straight , done some of the filling on the body went well , colm stripped the engine lid , . i then prepped for 2k primer, thats where it all went wrong, sprayyed it on and it all reacted with hte white paint underneath , not the original paint , the stuff some one painted it with before , so off it all came and started again fec

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK, owen nw

perfect

second time round

perfect

Posted: **Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:03 pm**

Posted: **Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:14 pm**

Paint reaction after all that work! Gutted

Keep at it, one day you may even get to drive it!

Posted: **Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:50 pm**

sooner than ye think i ve 4 projects on the go , 912 .vw trekker. 914 99%.camper vw owen nw

Posted: **Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:41 pm**

Sorry to hear that. There's nothing worse than doing the same job twice.

4 projects on the go

madness

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:19 am**

Wow. and it was going so well!

Just have to say that I love this thread. All the pictures make me live it with you. If you were nearer I'd do some sanding for you, but thankfully you're miles away!!

Keep up the good work, and you'll forget about all this when you're driving around with a big smile on your face!

DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

finally got the 912 in to the garage restoration starts here