THE FIRST VOLKSWAGEN(CLASS 11 MISTAKE) PT. 2

Now that we finally had the super beetle running our next project was paint and interior. Anyone who has ever painted a car knows that its not just going to the store and picking out a color, then going home and painting. Some cars take hundreds of hours of prep before you can even think about a color. The super beetle was no exception. we spent months prepping the car for paint, and we chose sublime green as our color. Luckily for us, our Dad had painted a few cars before, so he was a major help in letting us know what needed to be done. We stripped the car all the way down to bare metal, tearing through the previous five or six paint jobs the car had gotten without any prep! Once we had the entire car stripped we set up our garage as a paint booth. Buck did the painting, he was more interested in it than me, and it turned out pretty good!After the painting was done, I decided it was my turn to work on the interior. I recovered the seats, put in new carpet, and my Dad put in a new headliner(a real pain in the ass). We also put new rubber, and lights all the way around the car. The last thing we did was put in new rubber around the glass, this was by far the hardest part of the whole car. We could not get the glass in the car if our lives depended on it! After hours of attempting to get the rubber on the glass, we figured out that we were putting it on backwards! We finally got the glass on, and only managed to break the front windshield! Once it was finished all we wanted to do was get rid of it. We sold it two weeks later, and took the loss $$$$!