| I decided that I needed professional help to move
the project along. A friend who did some bodywork on the old
hunting car was available, and I asked him to do the work for me.
He did a great job of repairing the crude bondo work that I
started. He shot the paint on both the car body and the box that
fits on the car.
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Before painting.
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Before painting.
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Painting
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After painting.
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You will notice in the next pictures that the front was
not painted. We still have body work to do on it, but if we mount
the box on the car, I can get most of the box installation finished by
myself. The front end work is independent of the box and rear end
work.
The box fits on the VW body. It has two dog cages,
storage area, shelf for ice box, rear seats, water for dogs, drinking
water, etc. This box design is flexible since this is the third body
on which the box has been mounted. The bodies may fail, but the box
lasts.
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Left view of box
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Right view of box
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Front view of box where rear seat fits
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When we finished, we needed to work
on the underside again so we created a "poor man's lift".
A stack of pallets does very well to hold the car in the air.
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Car in the air for work
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Chip doing final welding on bumper mounts
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