Reconstructive surgery... on a sexy Italian...

Alfa gets some reconstructive surgery...





Then some beauty therapy...





This is how its done at Autostyl and Evil Ben's... done right, like it should be...

Variety show - of the car variety!! Not strictly come singing badly...

It ain't just Volkswagens that gets us going.... Fergus's Fiat left last week, all tip top again, and in came this real smart Alfa - the one used in the Malteasers advert where the driver keeps taking sharp turns to roll some outta the pack and accross the dash.... Its in for some Evil Ben's metal replacement and some Autostyl paint...



A faded, but familiar face from days gone is in for a brake spruce and general out of storage go-over....



while a very familiar face of late, Mike and Glenda's Westy, gets its shoes back on, comes off the dolly and back on solid ground - shiny shoes yet to come!!!!!

Post Volksworld...

We're back, and with some sunny weather, a bit of sleep at last, we're gearing up for an awesome summer show season!



In this last week, amongst others, Fergus's Fiat 600 for a brake overhaul and new screen seal...



Also - up for sale is Al's super cool fendered notch. Email us for more info...

Volksworld show 2009 and the lead up to....

Well, its been a long few weeks - here's a quick timeline of the lead up to the show...

2 weeks till showtime!!!!





lacetime.... 14days to go....







remask for door shuts - 14 days and counting...





paint the body - 11days to go...



modify the pan - trim framehead down and plate up. Section down centre tunnel pressing to go LOWER!!!!!!



9 days to go - pan back from the sandblasters...



8 days - pan painted...



lift country buggys shell onto the pan, then back onto building up the Brasilia... 7 days....







5 DAYS TO GO!!!!!!



4...



body on!!!!!



so with two days to go - not even time to take a picture... until loading up...



Then.... Volksworld show'tastic.....



buggy and brasilia.... very different but both getting lotsa love....





Both are for sale, so call us up if you fancy a truly unique creation to stand out this season, whether shiny or shitty looking....

Or if you want a car building to design - please get in touch.

videos to come.....

Massive thanks to everyone who helped make this mission possible.

Start your engines...

So this week, Tim's engun got started. Tim spends a lot of time in Portugal, the home of our Brasilia, so has gone for a new VW unit to provide reliable transport there and back. Ben got it all fired up - sounding smoooooth...



After wet flatting off the shuts and shadow coat of colour on Mike and Glenda's westy, Ant shot the final coats this week too, looking sweet... flating and polishing this week to really glass it up!





Then after hours the Brasilia got all fab work finished - about bloody time, as the clock is ticking - Volksworld show in 28days!!!!



28 days....gotta get back on it....

Dip dab dash...

What a week. Evil Ben has been putting in some serious hours to meet the deadline to get Martin's sick '55 vert finished to get up to SPL for dipping. Martin came down Thursday and after a long day of fettling, got the car in the luton and away!



The Brasilia got more than one step closer too this week, the gearbox raise has caused some knock on mods to be required, as everything is 4 inch higher than designed, so some entertaining clearancing and exhaust experimenting was needed.

Body off...and of to blasters soon.

secrets, lies and espionage...

Well with two Volksworld show deadline builds, that were meant to be under-wraps to a certain degree, the updates have been a bit few and far between as we've been ploughing into getting them underway. However, as someone has let the preverbial cat out of the whatsit.... here's some teasers...

here's the kerb crawler...









Not the most recent shots, cos we wouldn't want to reveal too much!!!!

Also got Tims engine in his 71 deluxe bay.



Conveniently sandwiched - ooo,err- between Retrodubs, and Evil Ben's - Non of us claim to be the largest VW specialist, but through working together, with combined skills and experience, and a can-do attitude - we build high end quality vehicles
whilst still offering friendly day to day services from lowering to MOT work.

a shot of Justin's shop - Retrodubs



Evil Ben's



and some of his panel work on Martin's '55 vert



his not so detailed Voksworld project....



Laters!