Pulled the gas lid flap and license plate light cover from solvent that had been soaking since last night. The solvent did a pretty good job of removing layers of paint, but I’m only using it in hard to reach places. The spring on the gas lid flap had so much paint on it, it’d…

A before and after of my license plate light repair. It originally came off of a torched Beetle, but the lens and gasket were fine, just needed cleaned up and rewired. Had a little time on my lunch break, now it’s good as new.

Didn’t do much of anything to the Beetle this weekend, which was probably a mistake since the weather was so nice. However, I did take advantage of the nice weather to put up and test Christmas lights. Yes, Christmas lights. Hey, it’s better to do it when it’s 78 degrees rather than when it’s 30…

Did a quick test this evening to see just how heavy the body is and how easy it’s going to be to remove from the floor pans. I’ve confirmed that the pans have been replaced some time in the past and the previous owner didn’t take the time to install the proper seal between the…

Removed the broken hood hinge from the drivers side and the good hood hinge from the passenger side. Had some time so I began to prep the good hinge to ready for primer. So now the task of finding a replacement hinge for the drivers side begins.