Project: Krusty

Thought I would introduce my first aircooled toy, ive always had VW's and finaly a few months ago I got 1968 single cab pick up.
It was imported from Sweden, needs a bit of attention but its not in too bad condition.
My aim is to get the body solid, get every thing working as it should then slam it on the floor!
This is how it looked when I got it.

First thing I had to do was put a fresh engine as the 1500 that it came with was very tired, so for now I got a cheap 1600sp in, the plan is to get a nice 1641 twin port early next year.
Once the engine was in I got a set of hoops & bows and a canvas made up locally so we took it camping at whitenoise vw show and slept in the back.

Next up I wanted to go back to original steel wheels so i got them sandblasted and then resprayed them

Finished them of with some primered vw hub caps from coolairvw

Then I decided to get on with the main aim, slaming the truck to the floor so the rear chassis needed a nice big C nothch, along with
t2d shocks and spring plates


Just need to get the front drop spindles changed, then i should be able to get it sitting nice and low, the back now potential to go very low.
Decided to make a start on the cab too, first thing i did was put a [email=F*@K]F*@K[/email] off great big tacho in, remove the plastic from the dash & make some ply door cards and I got a nice floor mat.

Did some hand painted sign writing to advertise my company

this week I cut the old bed and floor out as it had been patched up badly in the past

This is how its looking at the mo in my workshop

love this truck ,since seein it in the flesh ive been hunting around for 1 ,but no luck can only find t3

That is awesome luke

Loving those wheels luke

Loving this

love it!

Cool truck. I much prefer the steels to the brms

Thanks for comments guys!
I must admit i cant completely take the credit for the choice of wheels, I wanted to go for a set of radar's but my wife told me I didnt know what I was talking about!
And that I should go back to the steel wheels. So for the cost of some paint and time I thought i'd give it ago to prove her wrong before I bought the wheels.
Guess she was right after all!

BRMs are too cal look for me. Radars would be spot on though.
The bay T2D did at Bug Jam was very similar to this one I think.

Yep think im gonna still look out for some radars to try.
T2D 's is similar just a late bay instead of my early.
Finsihed cutting out all the rusty floor today. Hopefully start welding the new floor back in Monday.

this is beautiful ;-)

the colours awsome

Managed to get a good day on it yesterday, got all the old floor out and started to clean up the metal, nearly ready for some new metal to go in.

Coming along nicely Luke didn't know you was doing this much work to it. I thought you was gona keep it ratty.

Keep up the good work dude.

cheers mate, tbh I think it will alays be a rat!
Im just concentrating on gettin it rock solid in all the right places a the moment.

Bit of an update, after lots of welding and grinding the new floor is all in. Now starting to clean all the metal up ready to get a coat of acid etch primer and base coat before I re fit the bed panels.

Bit of an update, Ive been doing about 15 - 20 hours a week on the truck for the last4 weeks and its now starting to show.
Ive trial fitted the petrol tank and removed it.
I finished fabricating the floor section that goes between the rear wheel arch's today, after a few coats acid etch primer, and coat of stone chip on the underneath side I started to weld it in.

once this bit is finished im ready to zinc prime the lot then base coat it, then I can finally get on with the bed.

Well another week has gone by and all ive been doing is welding and cleaning the metal ready for primer.
Finished the last of the welding before the bed goes back on today



Hopefully the next update will be of all this painted and starting to fit the bed!

Havent updated this for ages so thought i'd throw a few pics up and let them do the talking, all the work has been done in my workshop by myself and so far I am on track to have it ready for spring.

Good work
Is it Java green? looks similar

Its the 1968 green, think its called velvet.

I quite liked the original colour was that factory

Alright sunshine, i hope you are kerbing your noise levels.
Are you doing Viva Skeg Vegas?

Well done on the Volksworld article
Looks great