Category Archives: Current cars

Delivered to Terry’s. By this time we were having serious doubts over the colour. Luke convinced us that the bright blue was not the right colour. His words ‘Nah that won’t look right, what you want is a nice pastel … Continue reading →

This is the point at which we started to question the Brunswick colour paint. The paint was matched and supplied by the Bus Station btw. http://www.thebusstation.co.uk

Before the body was delivered to Terry’s Beetles (actually while waiting for my slot to come up) I thought I’d do the gearbox and return the rideheight to what I thought would be normal.

Soda blasting is something best done either in a very well extracted booth or in a very open space – neither of which applies to a garage outside your home. Basically when used dry the dust from the soda is … Continue reading →

One method of removing paint is to use plastic grinding wheels (available through Frosts). We soon realised this would take quite some time and would not be suitable for the more intricate parts such as the engine bay.

To get the best compromise between a full restoration and spending loads of cash we decided to keep the body on the floorpan. We would strip everything back as far as possible to give the best overall paint job.

So why the name Brunswick – I’ve found a colour swatch on the net that says that convertibles from this time could be special ordered in Brunswick Blue. We wanted a light blue for the car and so this seems … Continue reading →

This started out as a desire to run round in a open top 4 seat convertible. We’ve experienced Triumphs and enjoyed them so it had to be something new. Then we found the Samba website in the US and the … Continue reading →

The Start A photographic record of the restoration of a 1962 VW beetle convertible as bought in California through http://www.vintagewarehouse.com/ Thanks to Greg from Vintage Warehouse for all your help. The original ad and all our inspiration came from the … Continue reading →