Laminating the light bowls

To finalize the work on the headlights, today I laminated the bowls onto the front fenders:

Maybe one more layer and then the fenders can be painted!

Let there be light!

I finally took the challenge of installing the light buckets into the front fenders!
The pre-owner installed them in a funny way, they were not protected from the inner side of the fender and the chrome rings were riveted onto the fender!
I tried to do better, so I cut out chunks of the fender to make the repro VW light buckets fit:

This is the old hack job:

The outer line marks the contour of the chrome ring, the inner line is a rough estimate how much material had to go.

Mock-up of the light bucket and chrome ring:

Chrome ring fitment is good enough for a Streaker:

Light bucket in the final position:

For the first time in years: Headlights!

Bumper installation continued...

Here is the final picture with the bumper mounted, now you can see why the bump had to go!

Bumper installation

A real Baja / Streaker needs a set of tubular bumpers! So, I started to install the rear bumper. After a few seconds it became obvious that there is a problem:...
 

The bump for the rear balancer was in the way, so it had to go: Removing the underseal to reveal the raw metal was the first step.

snip snip and gone.

Now this hole had to be filled:

A piece of sheet metal, a little welding and some seam sealer later the bump was history!

Now, the bumper could be mounted:

I think the exhaust pipe is a little too long?!

Tomorrow I will show the front bumper installation!