A 65' notchback story

[Paulpooted]

Well now that I'm well into this build I suppose its time to add a build thread to this forum as well.

The story all starts with a blog post on the Featured Society website. Please take a moment to give it a read so you can get a idea how this all began.

http://featuredsociety.com/a-project-is-born/

I'll update this thread with some more pictures soon, as this build is already rolling closer to being finished.

Heres a little preview.

[rice4life]

Please post some pictures on this site so we know what we are going to click

I can say nice car, but that would be a lie. That thing is awesome. It will take lots of time and work to get that thing on the road again though.

Please keep up updated

[Paulpooted]

Please post some pictures on this site so we know what we are going to click

I can say nice car, but that would be a lie. That thing is awesome. It will take lots of time and work to get that thing on the road again though.

Please keep up updated

Pics will come on this site soon. At work now however so don't have access to them. Thanks for the comments.

[scweet14]

Omg the amount of type 3 vw's coming to s/w is amazing!! I love these cars man! Looking forward to the build!

[Paulpooted]

First order of business was to tackle the rust issue..



So after a night of hanging out in the garage a few of us got real motivated





Then I got a set of new rear halves for the pans and got to cutting





More to come...

[Paulpooted]

More and more cutting and grinding





Then on to the fun stuff, spent a good few weeks welding and grinding to get rid of all the cancer.








Had to make some room for darla in the garage for a few nights. Ol Herman welcomed the company.



Pans are solid now



Followed up with some seam sealer then primer and truck bed liner. Looks like a brand new pan now.











Ill pause here for now... More to come, sorry for all the pics at once. This project is well past this point now just trying to catch up.

[rice4life]

That pan looks really good! You work fast, I like that

[absentee]

cant wait to see where this is going

[Paulpooted]

Thanks for the comments everyone! Shooting to be able to drive it to sowo but I'm thinking that's a long shot at this point haha.

[mule.]

loving this!!! is it staying this color?

That would be dope to see it at SoWo

[nickv]

We can finish it by sowo if you would get the parts in goshhhh.

[Paulpooted]

loving this!!! is it staying this color?

That would be dope to see it at SoWo

Yeah it will stay that color, if it does make it to sowo it won't be pretty yet haha.

[Paulpooted]

Next was to rebuild the front beam. Spent a lot of time with the wire wheel cleaning off 50 years of dirt and grease.

Also replace the tie rod ends and ball joints while I was there







After getting both beams rebuilt and painted up it came time for the body to go back on.





Also got the transmission back from being rebuilt and had the brakes drilled for 4x100





Got some sweet loaner wheels to roll on until I can figure out what size wheels I need to run.



Few bonus pictures

[Paulpooted]

Got a little work done today, nothing to crazy. Got my ignition back in the column and wired up.







Also got my shift rod coupler on and e brake cables ran. But no pictures of those.

[C-Hutch]

wooo column with ignition! it's about ready to turn the key then.