1963 RHD VW Bug

My brother and I have been working on a 63 bug converted RHD with airbags on it. Prepare to cringe.
Mods we have done(besides everything)
Right Hand Drive conversion
Shaved raingutters
Airbags in the rear, airshocks in the front
New door cards
Headliner
Pie cut the Bulkhead/tunnel
HIDs
Raised rear bumper
1641 Dual Port motor with dual kadrons.
Rebuilt trans
MSD ignition
Oval window rear clip
Candy Apple red paint

Plans we still need/want to do
Shave doorhandles
Airbags in front(replace air shocks)
Bigger motor
5 Speed Gene Burg trans
Paint the rest of the car
W-Decklid
Re-upholster the seats
Widen the Rims, Maybe tub the back for bigger rims
A-Arm front end

Just bought it. see any rust?
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Pulling the body off the pan.
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cut off and replace pans
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Bedlined the pan, top and bottom. Lets hope for no rust, well as long as we dont drag the pan and take off the bedliner.
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Time for the body

Rusted roof

Lets cut off the raingutters.

cutting raingutters off
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Ooooops, plasma cutter didnt like the headliner
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Decided to go Right Hand Drive, Australian Dash.
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So tired of body work.
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My old '65 next to the 63's pan

Put the body on the pan, chicks say they want to help. They just want to play around.

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Missing some pictures, so we'll skip a bit. Missing pics are the piecut tunnel/bulkhead Airbags in the rear, and airshocks in the front.
Did the interior, custom door cards, headliner, RHD carpet.
Cant see it much, but the door cards, match the door handles
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Going to make a taller shifter.
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How low can you go?
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Car shows and other pics
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Buddies over in Australia gave us a sticker

Pretty sweet looking. Didn't look like much to those little cars. Kinda makes me wanna build one.

yeah they are small, but its quite a bit of work. Definetly fun, and easy to find parts

What did the replacement floor pans run you?

Good project.

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