And some pics of the Current Baja bug being used for the project..
Just a few Before the knife pictures, and then I got silly with the jigger
saw!
OOP's! I am building a Baja not recycling them. Let's see - that makes
three mutilated bugs and not one running, after the fact. Oh well, having
fun playing with power tools.
As you can see if you are going to have a hand carried Baja, you need handles
for those to carry it with. Them's is the tubes I's bent all up,
previously. 'Nough redneck talk - it is hard to type that way.
I added some angle iron to the top of the tube and attached to the body via
the old original running board mounting holes. I drilled out the nuts in
the back, and opened the hole up to about 1/2". By attaching the
lower set of tubes to the car, I was then able to add the front cross brace to
keep the car square, (provided the bug was square), lucky me. In the rear,
I made a brace that clamped on to the bottom of the rear most section of the two
bottom tubes to keep them spaced correctly.
Obviously you are
wondering "where did this black bug come from and what happened to the blue
one?" Man this guy goes through bugs!
So, here is the
story ->
I posted on the web that I was in need of a used fiberglass engine air scoop
thingy, and a nice feller up in Washington offered a whole mess of Baja parts
for me to haul away if I just make him a roll bar or bumper sometime when he
needs it for his Baja. Good deal for both of us. I was able to clean
out his back yard of old Baja parts along with this nice '68 body. It was
already off the pan, and painted flat black. OUT with the nice painted
blue car, and in with the black one. I did use the pan from the blue car
to get the jig setup, though. This black Baja will have the rear torsion
out of the blue car. There
you have it!
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