I haven't been terribly busy with Penelope, but I have been slowly gathering and planning! I had previously put a transmission in, and threw a beetle motor in to move it around the yard. I started cutting the rust and thinking about about patching it. I emailed the funky green guy, but I haven't heard back. I bought some sheetmetal from busdepot. I've started cutting up the frame pieces I saved from the 76 I scraped out in June.
I also built an engine test stand. My old man gave me an old pressure washer that wouldn't run anymore and I took off all the equipment and modified the cart to hold a VW bell housing. He had previously mounted a receiver hitch on the front to put a trailer tongue in so that he could tow it around the yard. I built this so that we could more easily display the giveaway motor at Bugapaluza and possibly tow it around behind a golf cart while selling tickets. Anyhow, I pulled the beetle motor out of penelope and threw it on there with the hopes of cleaning it up and getting it running really well in a controled environment AND finishing the details of the test stand so that it will be ready for April.
Pretty soon, I'm going to have to start trying to fix the bad spot in the frame. Its still a long way to go...
