We stripped off all the old material from the hood so it too could be powder coated. All the wood was amazingly in good condition - we think the hood had been refurbished at least once before and new wood used. We ordered the material for the new hood from convertible specialties CA. Excellent price and very knowledgeable. NOS rear lens and license plate lens. Found a period NC tag plate from 1962 - all legal so long as you carry the current tag in the car with you.

Building the doors up took some time, each one took adjustment to get it to sit right. All new seals, door rubbers and wedges used, which presented a small challenge in the assembly around the quarter light. Stripped, refurbished and POR painted pedals.

All new brakes, including German master cylinder.

Engine about to go in, correct stale air rebuilt, we later added the cooling ring to the rear of the housing for correct warm up operation.

Painting the wheel inner colour, the wheels were painted pearl white with the car and then we masked off and painted the inner sections beige. All five wheels, each one mounted and tested for run out, we then purchased Nangkang 165R15's from Serrano through the Samba.

Got the powder coated hood frame back, remounted the wood and sent all this off to the trim shop. The trimmer we used has been in business over 45 years and has done a few bugs before. None the less we still got them a detailed instruction manual from Chucks convertibles here on the East coast. They trimmed the whole hood, front and rear seats and put in the German square weave carpet kit. We also used lots of sound insulation from Bequiet - excellent products.