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It was a lot of work to get the years of crud wiped off the original gel coat.

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See what I mean. I had to ask my girlfriend to take a few pictures of me with a dirty sponge so people wouldn't think she did everyting.

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She was such a good sport that I figured I'd take a shot of her. My girlfirend loves the color red, so I scored there. What luck!

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The front of the storage unit with the buggy inside.

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I ended up suspending the 'glass body overhead so that I can do work on the pan.

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Notice the pipe run in the well in the pan. I think the builder did a pretty good job overall shortening the pan.

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First order of business, completely replace the brake system. I've upgraded to a split master cylinder. If a brake line rupture occours on the front, I'll still have fluid to operate the rears and vice-versa.

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Heres a close up of the rear brake system. Little did I know that I'd be removing them to change out the transaxle.

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Frozen transaxle waiting to be pulled to make room for the functioning junk yard unit

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Buggy in storage. Original engine staged for assembly of more parts. I decided to pull the engine from the storage facility for the engine build. The engine was brought to the garage for that.

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Here's the engine in the garage. Most of the parts have been painted. The distributor was completely taken apart and re-worked. (It was frozen.
. go figure). A new carb sits on the intake runner. I drilled and tapped one exhaust and one intake...

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There's a rebuild fuel pump, new pushrod tubes and seals installed. The heads were re-torqued per the manual. I painted and bolted up the exhaust. I noticed the right hand side exhaust was way out of alignment, so I cut it with the sawzall, and bent what