Resto advice thoughts wanted

[Tony O.]

Hi everyone,

In April of this year I bought a Bradley GTII. Did a ton of mechanical work to it including a butt sag support to start making the doors fit better. Got it running and road worthy / legal. Had planned to take care of the door body issues over the winter.

Well, this past week I came across a deal that was to good to pass up. An un-completed 1979 GTII on a super beetle chassis with a broken windshield but with about 80% of the other parts from the kit. The doors and hardtop are in better shape than the completed GTII acquired in April, but some modifications were made to the foot well area to fit it on the super beetle chassis.

Included in the deal was a beetle chassis that in 1999 had been reworked by Bugstuff in PA. The chassis has been sitting outside exposed to upstate NY weather for an undetermined number of years and has surface rust but otherwise seems solid.

So my dilemma is, do I just swap out the hardtop and doors to the currently driveable GTII and paint it, or should I take both bodies apart mix and match parts and put the body on the newly acquired chassis and install a body lift kit at the same time. Essentially starting from scratch.

Any thoughts on the manner would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Tony

[mrbigh]

I would swap the hard top and doors first and enjoy the vehicle now while the itch of driving it today last, then with the proper time I would consider to retrofit the finish body to the new reconditioned rolling chassis.
Now that you have enough parts on hand, do you have an spare driver's door striker ( the catch that goes in the body side) for sale?

[Tony O.]

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[jspbtown]

Which one did you cut and paste? The last one is the correct one.

[Tony O.]

Trying pic post again.

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[Tony O.]

Okay,

This should be a link to my album on Photobucket.

Tony

[mrbigh]

the pictures are really small, but you're in the right path for postings photos.

[Tony O.]

[http://s821.photobucket.com/albums/zz131/whirligigman/?newest=1/url]

[mrbigh]

Tony,
this is is the information that needs to be included for a shortcut of your photobucket gallery as you posted in the previous post
In the edit mode, click on the www icon, the one with the earth picture, in the first bracket insert an equal sign (=) and then the information of the shortcut as it shows here, close the bracket, then you can wright something in order to call the shortcut, in this case I typed "PICTURES". In the fallowing example I added 2 interrogation signs in order to disable the example at the beginning and end, these shouldn't be there.
[??url=http://s821.photobucket.com/albums/zz131/whirligigman/?newest=1/url]PICTURES[??/url]
and this is how it should work.........
Great PICTURES of my cars.......
Horacio

[Tony O.]

This is exactly the kind of step by step info I needed.

In regards to your question about the drivers side door striker, I haven't sorted through all the parts yet. Brought everything home as boxes of jumbled up parts.

Once again thank you for your help with pic posting.

[mj]

Like that.

Look above the posting window. There are two lines of button in the "Add Tags:" line. The second row, forth button. That's for picture insertion.

Paste the link for your picture into the posting window. Then highlight it. Then click that forth button. Done!

[robstone]

I like it without the front bumper! ;D Love those GT IIs!

[robstone]

Please post some pics of the front suspension of the one with Super Beetle chassis. Need to know if they incorporated the struts somehow.

[Tony O.]

Okay,

I think with all your help I have finally figured out how to post pictures.

Rob, here are some pics of the modified Super beetle front end. Looks like the PO fabricated a plate steel piece which goes across the front end in front of the firewall and created new strut towers.

I will post better pictures when I get the body off the chassis. With work and all, it will be a while.

Tony

[robstone]

I parted out an SB. Thought about using the struts, but shortening them somehow. It appeared that the struts would make the car ride too high up front. Is it the one in the pic that is high in the front?