Rain didn't stop play

I thought it might, as its been persisting down most of the day, but then the majority of what I was doing was under cover so it wasn’t likely to anyway.

As I said in yesterday’s post the plan for today was to clean, polish, check and photograph all the painted bits (in between tinkering with the beetle for Volksfest tomorrow) and I’m pleased to say I managed to, I even got all technical (for me lol) and put a little flickr widget on the sidebar with all the pictures I took in it, I will add to that folder as time goes by and the build progresses.

Considering it has been painted for about 6 years and stored ever since the paint is remarkably good, I’m very impressed. Aside from a small nick on the horncasting, a slightly bigger one on the rear light (can be seen in pics) and a bit of tidying to be done on the bottom of the forks and rear of frame (where they were sitting on a concrete floor) there is nothing to do repair/paint touching up wise, all things considered quite a result, I expected worse so am rather pleased.

As you can see in the pic at the top of this post, the new legshields look sooooo much better than the original ones (pic in this post) no dents or rot, the original colour and no Opel Corsa sticker either, which is a bonus lol.

Next weekend the plan is to actually make a start on the rebuild……….

I have to admit I have.....

.....not done anything much since the last post, predominantly due to a hideous abscess in my gum, but I think (keeping things crossed) that the worst has passed so I can get back to normal.

 I do like to have a pic on each post too (even if it’s not related to the TV or what has been done to it since the last post) hence the image at the start of this post. It’s something I stumbled across on tinterweb, a future Vespa apparently, more info here, I must admit that certain angles and aspects have given me beginnings of an idea for part of the next project, but that’s way off, need to start this one first really lol.

Anyway, back to the TV, I’ve finished sorting the garage out so tomorrow I plan to give all the painted bits a good clean and protective polish (been stored for about 6 yrs so in need of it) I haven’t done anything with them since collecting them a couple a couple of weeks ago so it will be good to see exactly what’s there and more importantly what condition it’s in after all these years passing since it was painted.

I did have a quick look over everything when I collected it and aside from a few small areas all looked good so fingers crossed (again)….(second time in the post lol) It will also be good to check what’s needed, if memory serves right its very little metal work wise, if anything, but it has been 6 years or so and the memory is not what it was (it’s an age thing I’m told lol) I know I need other (non-metal work stuff) but will address that a later date.

So hopefully by this time tomorrow I will have gone through it all (painted stuff for now not the rest) and taken some pics which will go in the new section >>>>>> over there, beneath "about this blog" and above "search this blog"

However, if it’s not done by tomorrow it will have to wait until next weekend unfortunately, I am off Sunday (after managing to swap with a colleague lol) but it’s London Volksfest and that is something I will certainly not be missing if I can help it, a cracking day and much fun, especially the drag strip J