On the road....where she belongs!

 Phase 1 complete

She's legal!  She flew through the safety (thanks Chris) and is now on the road.  She's far from finished, but the shakedown runs begin!

This is a bit cathartic, as what I just completed was the thwarted plan in 1998.  Without the use of a garage, it was never going to happen back then.

Need to make an appointment at Krown from some strategic preservative oil placement in the parts I welded on, after next pay....its been an expensive week!

Then the tar boards and carpet goes in, then the nitpicky stuff gets dealt with.  She runs ok, the Chinese carb has issues to resolve, and the drivetrain is quite noisy, and can hear alot of road noise thru the missing bottom of the spare tire well!

She took 2 years, 10 months, 26 days to get her roadworthy.

Final tally of phase 1, is $9192.36; 

- $1700 to ink the deal;

- California Import Parts in Vancouver, (CIP) got the lion's share at $2437.16;

- $944.26 was consumable stuff;

- $762.75 to BH&P to rebuild the heads

- $519.54 worth of stuff turned out to be junk or not usable.  And the rest was used parts, and some misc. (Labour, towing, etc)

Tough reality is that you can't do any degree of heavy restoration, for less than a budget of $10,000...remember, save for a couple colour match rattle cans, the bodywork and paint was untouched...

Hopefully, this is one of the last updates for the Bug, and I can focus on getting the GLI running for the rest of summer!

And Q*RYCHE stands for Queensryche, not some conspiratorial cabal!