Old and older steel underneath Kokl

This is how we do it! :) Previous owners had an idea that bus will be sitting together better if they put new steel on top of the old one. And the result is that new and old stell got as bad as they could and I had to take off both of them. New ones are already back on it but I have to leave you in ? for a while! :)
It doesn`t look good doesn`t it! I would rather say it didn`t look good!

Cutting out the pieces

I still didn`t give it up on Kokl although I is a mess down there. I started to cut of pieces that are damaged so much that they could be a hazard to drive with. THERE ARE HOLES EVERWHERE!!! But as you will see in the next couple of weeks the bottom will be made better as it was in fist place :D Don`t be afraid of this pisc as I was when I saw my bus next day when it came back from sandblaster.

Watching the bus that was sandblasted was a horror. When I have seen what has remain of the bus I have just wached and wached and ... I felt very sad because I knew that 80 % of bottom will must be repaired. :(
Some pisc still to come!

Kokl came back

Well, Kokl came back from the MASTER SANDBLASTER :D ... and as you will see there was not much left from it´s bottom. I am on a good way to make it better and promise that I will try to post as much pics as I coud and will not take a 3 months vacations again! :)

Kokl went to sandblasting withouth engine, gearbox and frontend. The sandblasting will be made only under, because upper part stays as RAT LOOK as it is. :D

Pics of dismantling

Dismantling the parts from the bus could be fun, but also serious problem when putting back together. So I have take as much pictures as I could.

My help

Here is my Katja helping me out with dismantling the bus because it is going to sandblasting.
Picture taken underneath (the bus of course)

Putting out the floors

I had a lot of work with putting out the floor pans from Kokl.

Here are some pics of it!

Starting makeover

As I had a great time with Kokl in the end of previous year there is a need to make his floor and

bottom new again!

In the next couple of weeks you will se if I will manage to put my bus back on track!

Introducing Kokl

You probbably know Kokl already.

You don´t?

It is a VW bus known as T1 made in January 1960. It has gone thru many hands and now is in my hands. I will drive him as rat look for some years and than restore it in best possible way.